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Heohrafichna karta zemelʹ, de zhyvut Ukraint͡si - Geographic Map of Ukrainian-Inhabited Lands
1910
Ukrainian
Mapa Zelenoi Ukrainy = Map of Green Ukraine
A black-and-white map of a region of eastern Siberia with a large Ukrainian population. The map contains ethnographic information, topography, and transportation routes. Partially pictured: Manchuria, Japan.
Svit I.V.
Ukraïnsʹka vydavnycha spilka (Ukrainian publishing association), Harbin.
1930
Ukrainian
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emenda
Includes decorative cartouche and inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans.
1 map : hand col. ; 47 x 55 cm. - Relief shown pictorially. "Cum privil. ordin. general. Belgii Foederati." Fourth state, according to Burden. Appears in author's Atlas minor sive geographia compendiosa. Includes decorative cartouche and inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans.
Visscher, Nicolaum
[ca 1684?]
hand col. ; 47 x 55 cm.
Latin, Dutch
Rivers and Lakes
The mapmakers place an outsize emphasis on rivers in their map design. Rivers are represented with solid black lines. The inclusion of even minor rivers means that a network of rivers seems to cover the map. In cases where state boundaries and rivers overlap, rivers dominate. Indeed, state boundaries are visually secondary to rivers, whose solid black ink superimposes over the dotted state boundaries. The emphasis on this natural features seems relevant to me because of the fact that a central tenet of this map’s argument is that freedom and slavery are fighting for control of the land. The importance given to rivers signifies for me the importance of natural features in the battle between slavery and freedom. When one steps back, there are very few features that stand out on the map other than those that are natural (especially in the form of rivers) and that which is political (especially in the form of state and territory names). This hierarchy speaks to the conflict at the center of the map’s political purpose. In sum, rivers are given a prominent place in the map design not because of any practical meaning to be drawn from the rivers, but rather to add symbolic meaning to how slavery and freedom fight for the land.
General Content: Rivers
General Content: Lakes
General Content: Black lines
Analytical Tag: Visual priority given to rivers
Analytical Tag: Natural unity of land
Mountains
At first, the mountains appear to be a relatively unimportant feature of the map, and it is true that they occupy relatively little physical space on the page. The mountains that are represented are done so in a way that connects them in continuous ranges that snake along the surface of the map. The way that they flow and join together is reminiscent of rivers. Indeed, there is a connection between the smoothness of the mountains and the prominence of the rivers in the map’s hierarchy. Both illustrate an intent on the part of the mapmaker to present a smoothness and naturalness of the American landscape. One of the central ideas of the map is that slavery’s expansion is at odds with the natural land. The smooth mountains play a central role in demonstrating this argument.
General Content: Hand-drawn
General Content: Topographical feature
General Content: Mountains
Analytical Tag: Natural Unity of Country
Analytical Tag: Connecting regions of country
State and Territory Names
One of the things I noticed in exploring this map is that although state boundary lines are almost indiscernible, state and territory place names hold an outsize importance in the visual hierarchy. The text for state and territory names is in an imposing, block letter font and all capitals and seems unusually large and bold. This boldness creates an imposing quality that leaves obvious fingerprints of an obstreperous intervention into the natural space of rivers and colors. I argue that this mechanical, intrusive quality is an intentional attempt to show how man-made political divisions are at odds with the natural landscape of rivers. To put it broadly, I see a conflict between the natural and man-made features of the map. I see the overbearing text size and the preeminence of rivers as the two primary visual layers at the forefront of this confrontation. It seems to me that the there is a parallel between the incongruent juxtaposition of natural and man-made features in the map itself and a broader conflict that was going on in the 1850s to claim the territories as either slave or free. Indeed, the clunky visual picture created by the place name fonts stands in stark contrast to the cleanness and order of the Missouri Compromise negative space, which smoothly sleuths across the territories. I argue that this visual confrontation mirrors the map-maker’s opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, especially in contrast to the order and stability that the Missouri Compromise ensured, at least according to Republicans at the time. After all, opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act precipitated the formation of the Republican Party, and this map was produced as a piece of pro-Republican election propaganda for the 1856 presidential election.
General Content: State names
General Content: Territory names
General Content Tag: Uppercase letters
Analytical Tag: Large font size
Analytical Tag: Imposing political divisions on the land
Color Washes
This layer contains a wash of three distinct colors: bright red for free states, dark blue-gray for slave states, and green for territories that were, as the map’s title calls it, “open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise” of 1854. This layer encapsulates what I find to be the central object of the map as a whole, which is to use abstraction to convey a political message. The color washes appear to have been applied by a distracted artist rather than a fastidious cartographer. For instance, the colors spill over lines liberally—Long Island Sound or the loose splashes over Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard provide good examples. There is almost the sense that the cartographer accidentally spilled buckets of paint over the map. This looseness plays into how the abstract colors represent political ideology rather than distinct geographic features. In conveying that political message, the mapmakers made distinct choices in color choice. Coloring the slave states a dark blue-gray gives the impression that the slave power is as a storm cloud that darkens and encroaches upon the innocent, natural greenness of the unclaimed territories. This dark coloring of slavery also has the effect of connoting immorality, especially in contrast to the bright, chipper cherry red of the free states. Moreover, the dark blue has the effect of making it extremely difficult to discern the natural features, like rivers, in the slave states—a fact that I learned the hard way in my tracing. I contend that this obfuscation of natural features is intentional; the mapmakers seek to prove in obscuring the rivers and mountains that slavery is unnatural and counter to the ideals of the land that the red and green colors highlight so much more clearly and favorably.
Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
1856 Election
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slavery and Freedom
Westward Expansion
Depicts areas in the United States that allow and do not allow slavery and the territories who status as free or slave is yet to be determined as of 1856. Made in anticipation of the 1856 election as a piece of propaganda in favor of the Republican presidential ticket, which consisted of John C. Fremont for president and William L. Dayton for vice president. The map includes data from the 1850 census for all states, divided into slave and free, and pays particular attention to data regarding economics and representation in Congress.
William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds
J.C. Jones
Rufus Blanchard
1856
Stand-alone map
English
Historical Map