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My description: This text page advertisement from the…
Tags: 1880, 1880s, atlas, Germany, labelling, names, naming, nationalism, visual hierarchy
My description: This 1886 Rand McNally map, created by the railroad commission,…
Tags: advertisement, Baltimore, Black Hills, British America, Chicago, Cincinnati, county, Dakota Territory, Denver, illustrations, inset map, Nebraska, New York, Philadelphia, railways, Rand McNally & Co., revolver, St. Louis, township, uncolored, Utah, Washington D.C., watch, westward expansion, Wyoming
Tags: 18th century, Alaska, colored outlines and shading, continent outlines, european exploration, French, geopolitical divisions, human presence on land, illustrations, Kamchatka, labels of tribal lands, lakes, native americans, Navigation, North America, notes on time and captains of voyages, Pacific, ports, positional knowledge (level of accuracy?), rivers, ship routes, theoretical geography, transportation network, treatment of the unknown, waterways, well-defined geographic information









