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This pictorial map, produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority, shows the Tennessee River Valley region with particular emphasis on the proposed work and improvements of the TVA. As the map notes, there is "no scale," nor does it include a compass…

Base data compiled in 1986 from USGS 1:100,000 scale topographic maps dated 1979-1987. Planimetry revised from aerial photographs taken 1982-1986 and other source data.

The base grid was compiled by the Bureau of Land Management from official records of cadastral surveys.
The land status was compiled for printing by the Bureau of Land Management from the offical federal records with additional data furnished by…

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…

This map, published in Wallace's book describing his travels in the Malay Archipelago, shows the routes he took around the region while he was visiting the islands and collecting specimens there between 1854 and 1862. His occupation during these…

The map shown here, produced by Yurii Izrael', who was also in charge of producing Soviet contamination maps, was produced a year after the larger Soviet maps in this exhibit. However, it shows a subtle but unmistakeable political shift for the…