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- Tags: rivers
- Item Type: Historical Map
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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…
JosiahC
This map provides a loose sketch of the Little Missouri River Basin, with a focus on the tributary streams that flow into the Little Missouri, and the ranches in the area. Ambiguity about the map's authorship, date of creation, and scale--not to…
JosiahC
This undated map, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, shows ranches along the Little Missouri River during the 1880s. The map contains the following description on the bottom: "Map of part of the Little Missouri River Valley, in Billings…
ClaireC
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…
IsabellaC
This map shows how the cholera epidemic spread across the world from 1817-1831. The only cities labeled on the map are places at which cholera was recorded during the epidemic, clearly showing the impressive geographical range the epidemic reached.…
Tags: cholera, dates, disease, IC, Place Names, rivers, transmission, world map
AbigailP
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…
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
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…
IsabellaC
Polar projection of the world
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