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This is one of the 7 smaller sections of the "Cyclers' Guide and Road Book of California" book published in 1895/1896. Bike paths shown in red and labeled with abbreviations. The first abbreviation of the two tells the road condition. Conditions are:…

This is one more of the sectional maps from the California guide for cyclists.

This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image…

"This “Guide Map of the City of Detroit for Bicyclists, Showing Pavements” was copyrighted during the bicycle boom of the 1890’s...The map’s title points out its most striking detail: the color-coded mish-mash of various pavement types, ranging from…

Here is a map created in Paris in 1800 by cartographer Charles Francois Delemarche. It was created for an educational atlas for children, and this map appears to be a political map of Europe. Focussing on France, Delamarche shows the boundary of…