18 10 258 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/364ba3ac0a9aa587c4884c0ee6adfc2b.jpg f4b83c8d84806f61fe55bdc655eee229 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hamburgum celeberrima libera imperii et Hanseatica civitas ac opulentissimum emporium circa ostium Albis ad mare septentr = Hamburg eine weltberühmte Freye Reichs und Hansee- auch Reiche u. Volkreiche Handels statt an der Elb nicht Weit von der Nord See Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seutter, Matthaeus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1725 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/8f20c46a97f43118e84af44c1ab1fec3.jpg 941879e233eebc1d3f47d57acb431813 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Celeberrimi Flvvii Albis : nova delineatio Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Möller, Christian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1628 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/130195de152ae6f9b776d7b2486d6e8a.jpg cd986c161e3cce214cfd3d5e4987b177 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Braun, Georg URL or Unique Identifier http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011310725/catalog Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lvbeca vrbs imperialis libera civitatvm wandalicarvm et inclytæ hanseaticæ societatis capvt. Hamburga florentissimum inferioris Saxoniæ emporium Anglorum frequẽtatione hoc tẽpore celeberrimum A. Dñi M.D.L.XX.II. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Braun, Georg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1572 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/249d6c794c45b398de3da7ff557a7394.jpg 78415db57233e1eaf392bfcf202fe8d0 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Braun, Georg URL or Unique Identifier http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/011310806/catalog Date Published 1617 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hambvrgvm Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Braun, Georg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1617 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/5957307ff9d27a78609bf19a012a68d8.jpg 3fce0d11299caace598d5fa0c4c547f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Svit, I.V. Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part Harvard Map Collection, Krawciw Collection. Call Number G7270 1930 .M3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapa Zelenoi Ukrainy = Map of Green Ukraine Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Svit I.V. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ukraïnsʹka vydavnycha spilka (Ukrainian publishing association), Harbin. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Language A language of the resource Ukrainian https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/8ac6d4cba50358f90a5d683b5f40ffe7.jpg 199d0f227ed6b05b0af57cd48340efb1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula : multis in locis emenda Subject The topic of the resource Includes decorative cartouche and inset view: Nieuw Amsterdam op t eylant Manhattans. Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Visscher, Nicolaum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource [ca 1684?] Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource hand col. ; 47 x 55 cm. Language A language of the resource Latin, Dutch https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/75ae04b0b4cbaa9426f126bc9ee0a257.jpg 92835767002b38adae02a6d7a38f1609 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rivers and Lakes Description An account of the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context General Content: Rivers General Content: Lakes General Content: Black lines Analytical Tag: Visual priority given to rivers Analytical Tag: Natural unity of land https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/bdeacb897c92da576d3fcdfda82b4ee3.jpg 6ef796c63999032edf9567f26cd4a01f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mountains Description An account of the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context General Content: Hand-drawn General Content: Topographical feature General Content: Mountains Analytical Tag: Natural Unity of Country Analytical Tag: Connecting regions of country https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/8373385d21f999e3b4753051c9f11ae1.jpg a226dceb59222951a05e6520c9b5df35 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource State and Territory Names Description An account of the resource 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. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 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 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/a441045fe84258d825be8a0b479d84c4.jpg 0a9f4cc3a7f86c0c6019df2a0b00f247 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Color Washes Description An account of the resource 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. Analytical Tag: Kansas Nebraska Act Analytical Tag: Repeal of Missouri Compromise Analytical Tag: Westward Expansion General Content: red green and blue General Content: Slavery and Freedom General Content: Watercolor