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- Item Type: Historical Map
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YuanHengM
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…
Tags: forts, Hydronym, lakes, mountains, Place Names, towns, water bodies
ClaireC
This large-scale topographic map covers the region between Knoxville, TN and Asheville, NC. As an official U.S.G.S., the map makes claims to objectively representing the landscape through topography. The consistency of representation across such a…
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
ClaireC
This map produced by the North Carolina State Advertising Division illustrates the recreational opportunities of Western North Carolina. The Great Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge Mountains form the geographic boundaries of the region; there are no…
YuanHengM
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…
YuanHengM
The Qing Empire under Emperor Qianlong (r. 1735-1795) was an age of expansion. After conquering the New Domination at the west, the Emperor sent missionaries there to do surveys. In 1761, basing on new surveys and the previous national map made under…
Tags: Hydronym, lakes, mountains, Place Names, rivers