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Layer 01 identifies key organizing components of the map, including a grid reference and state outline. While the main argument of this map is transit mobility, it was important to capture the train as a central structure as well.

Layer 02 depicts the railway network. Rail is one of two types of transit modes in this map, and a central theme.

Layer 03 represent radial (distance) arcs. Because the primary argument of this map is related to transit mobility, the radials identify proximity.

Layer 04 identifies the locations of the Neal Company's three storage facilities around Cleveland. It also identifies and locates names of cities outside of Greater Cleveland where they service.

“An Act to Authorize the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing with the Original States, and to Prohibit Slavery in Certain Territories.” A…

I chose to incorporate only the capitalized text in this layer for two reasons: (1) It seems to me that choice of the font/size of the textual references bears some implications about how important certain features were to the map-makers (the more…

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”…

Here is just the divide between land and water in New England. This includes the Atlantic Ocean, various rivers, and all the other bodies of water that the map creator includes.

This layer is the frame for the map, the scale and original description from the map creator, as well as the 19th-century description of the map explaining its purpose and errors. This layer has every tool the map creator provides such as a compass…