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From the Smith Report of 1945, the map shows early plans for the location of Interstate 70 in Maryland, encircling Baltimore. It was the first study to propose an express route. The map was later included in the General Location of National System of…

This layer has all the markers of land features such as capes, forests, and hills. This layer includes both literal markers such as "Cape Cod" but also decorative features such as animals on the map. It is unclear how literal some of the natural…

Here are markers, both literal (cities) and decorative (ships) of human influence on the landscape of New England. The markers note both colonist and Native American influence on the land.

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.

This map was published in 1863 in a paper by Wallace on the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago. It is the first map marking Wallace's line, here labelled as dividing the "Indo-Malay Region" from the "Austro-Malay Region". This line proposed…

This map shows what is referred to as the first scientific study of a tornado’s path and the first conclusive proof that tornadoes are an inward, upward, and onward moving column of air. In his article, Chappelsmith notes that people living five…

This map is an engraved map of the Chinese Qing Dynasty’s New Domination Province. Published around the 1860s, this map still follows the techniques of traditional Chinese Cartography. The grids on the maps help cartographer represent the landscapes…

This 1934 pictorial map was created by the Kellogg Company. The titular "Gifts of Nature" refers to agricultural plenty, but the map also depicts historical sites, industry, and Native American tribes. Also shown are railroad lines, migration routes,…

This map is a survey of the city of New York showing the location of farms, estates, street names and the high water lines. This survey is interesting as it shows the survey lines of the Manhattan grid dashed beneath the boundary lines of original…

This map, named The Map of the Borderlines of China and Russia, is a selected translation from one 1884 Russian map. Hong Jun (1839-1893), who had been the Qing Empire’s emissary, bought the original map in Russia and translated place names into…