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Full Exhibition Item List

Introduction and Standardization

  1. Joseph Enthoffer, “Conventional Signs for Topography,” “Types of Orography," and “High Mountains” in Manual of Topography and Text-book Of Tropographical Drawing; For the Use of Officers of the Army and Navy, Civil Engineers, Academies, Colleges, and Schools of Science, 1870.
  2. United States Geological Survey , Topographic Maps, 1950.
  3. Arthur Robinson et al, Elements of Cartography Fifth Edition, 1984.
  4. Michael Wynne, England, 2019.

Altitude

  1. Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen, Physiographic diagram, Atlantic Ocean (sheet 1), 1957.
  2. Bruce Heezen, “Figure 1: Method and preparation of physiographic diagram” in The Floors of the Ocean, 1959.
  3. Richard H Pease, Mapa de una porcion de Chile, indicando el curso del ferro-carril proyectado entre Valparaiso y Santiago, 1852.
  4. Dépôt-général de la Marine, Plan du Cul-de-Sac Marin (Ile de la Martinique), 1828.
  5. Philippe Buache, “Figure 1: Method and preparation of physiographic diagram” in Cartes et tables de la géographie physique ou naturelle, 1770.
  6. Mountford John Byrde Baddeley, “Section Map No. 8” in The English Lake District, 1923.
  7. Ed Fairburn, “Borrowdale, United Kingdom,” 2017.

Boundaries

  1. Surveyor General’s Office, Map of Louisiana representing the several land districts: prepared to accompany the Surveyor General’s annual report, 1854.
  2. J. Gabrys, Carte ethnographique de l’Europe. Echelle moyenne 1:500,000,000, 1918.
  3. Rand McNally and Company, World, 2012.
  4. Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, “Descripcion de las yndias ocidentalis” in Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las islas y tierra firme del mar oceano, 1601-1605.
  5. Antonio García Cubas, Carta general de la República Mexicana, 1863. On loan from the American Geographical Society Library at UW-Milwaukee.
    Jan Jansson, Nova et accvrata Poli Arctici et terrarum circum iacentium descriptio, c.1637?.

Folds

  1. Thomas Tegg, Tegg’s new plan of London, &c with 360 references to the principal streets, &c., 1831, 1831.
  2. Wasser- und Schiffahrtsdirektion Süd., Karte der Bundeswasserstrassen 1:10 000: Verkehrskarte. Donau, 1975.
  3. General Drafting Company, Wisconsin Minnesota, 1960s.
  4. Tonika Johnson, Folded Map Project, 2017.
  5. Kati Rubinyi, Detroit City Map, 2008 (1991).

Graticules

  1. Paulo Forlani and Ferando Bertelli, Universale Descrittione Di Tutta la Terra Conosciuta Fin Qui, 1565.
  2. S., Horizon de Paris dedié a son Altesse Monseigneur l’Archeveque de Cambray, Pair de France, Prince du S. Empire, Comte du Cambresis, 1739.
  3. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Equatorial azimuthal equidistant projection, 1965-1967.
  4. Agnes Denes, Isometric systems in isotropic space: map projections: from the study of distortions series, 1973-1979, 1979.
  5. George William Fitch, “Europe and British Isles” in Fitch’s mapping plates: designed for learners in geography, being a collection of plates prepared for delineating maps of the world and countries forming its principal subdivisions, 1854.

Journeys

  1. John Cage, a map and score for A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, 1978. On Loan from MCA Chicago
  2. Great Britain Hydrographic Office, Chart of the South Polar Sea, 1841.
  3. Harry Alverson Franck, Working north from Patagonia; being the narrative of a journey, earned on the way, through southern and eastern South America, 1921.
  4. John Ogilby, “Map 34, Barnstable to Truro” in Britannia, volume the first. Or, An illustration of the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, 1698.
  5. Guias Escalada, Mexico, 1938.
  6. Richard Long, “The Isle of Wight as Six Walks” in Sixteen Works, 1984.
  7. Drawn by Rhotaas for the Illinois Central Railroad Company, Map of line from Canton, Miss. to New Orleans, c. 1861.
  8. Ruth Taylor White, “Reno – Salt Lake City” and “Boulder Dam – Salt Lake City” in United Airlines: A Gay Geography of the Main Line Airway, c.1938.

Networks

  1. Thomas Jefferys, A map of South America containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Granada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia, 1775.
  2. William Knight, A new mapp of South Britain or England and Wales containing all the cities and market towns, 1720.
  3. Rand McNally and Company, “Kentucky and Tennessee” in Rand McNally road atlas of the United States, Canada and Mexico, 1951.
  4. Norman Macmillian, “The Air Map of Europe” in The air travellers’ guide to Europe, 1929.
  5. Ibrahim Miranda Ramos, Mapaglypha: Bird, Mexico City, 2007.
  6. Dallin Maybee, Chasing away the buffalo, 2022.
  7. Joseph F. W. Des Barres, “A plan of Delawar River from Chester to Philadelphia” in The Atlantic Neptune, 1780.
  8. Robert Rauschenberg, “Composition” from Tares, 1972.
  9. Massimo Vignelli for the New York City Transit Authority, New York subway guide, 1978.

Rhumb Lines

  1. Petrus Roselli, Manuscript portolan chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, 1456.
  2. R. Mount and T. Page, A Generall chart from England to Cape Bona Esperance with Newfoundland and Brazile according to Mr. Edw. Wrights projection …, 1720.
  3. Theunis Jacobsz, “Lapland” in The lightning columne, or, Sea-mirrour, 1711.