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This is half of a map of Paris included in Baedeker's 1878 English-language guidebook to the Paris region. It gives us a sense of what British visitors to Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries would have seen -- after all, this guidebook…

This is a map created for a French historical Atlas depicting the war campaigns of Charles XII of Sweden. The map was created in roughly 1805 and it depicts a war in the late seventeenth century. Unlike the other maps, this map depicts an earlier…

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…

This is a map of Europe created in 1804 by Englishman Edward Patteson. It was created as part of an Atlas that depicted both Ancient and Modern Europe. So on this map, modern borders between nations are depicted, but Patteson accompanies many land…

This map presents the place names of western Palestine in Arabic and explains their meaning in a key on the side. It also marks the location of Arabic villages, churches and mosques. It is a notable that this map is included to the Palestine…

This map layer depicts Western Palestine at the time of the Old Testament. It sources its information primarily in the book of Joshua which chronicles the Israelites conquering and settling the Holy Land. However, there are additional place names,…

This map shows the spread of Strontium-90 contamination in the area of eastern Belarus and western Russia surrounding Gomel' in December 1990. It is one of a set of four Soviet-produced maps showing strontium contamination from the same point in…

This map portrays soil contamination on the territory of Ukraine with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, as of April 2011. Cesium-137 has a half-life of approximately 30 years (which means that 30 years after its release, half of it will have…

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…