clickondetroit.com

Rare 18th-century map of Detroit found at home in Ontario

A recently acquired Detroit historical gem will be on view Tuesday in a local library. University of Michigan’s Hatcher Graduate Library is the first to display the 21-by-40-inch map of Detroit ...
Nature

Eighteenth Century Map of Hampshire

WE have received from the Hampshire Field Club and Archological Society a copy of the reproduction, on a slightly reduced scale, of the map of Hampshire by Isaac Taylor, 1759, which has recently been ...
Digital Trends

This is the entire internet, visualized as an 18th-century map of the world

What is the internet, and how do you map it? It’s a tricky question. Despite the fact that it is sometimes, although decreasingly, called “cyberspace,” suggesting some kind of geography, it’s not ...
Science Daily

18th-century map offers new insight into colonial life in New York

A newly acquired 18th-century map of what is now New York state, showing Seneca and Cayuga villages and native footpaths in addition to natural features, offers insights into colonial life. A newly ...
Government Technology

What would an 18th-century map of the Internet look like?

The Internet is such an integral part of our lives — you wouldn’t even be reading this without it — but how do you actually visualize it? Is it just lines of code, perhaps? How about light moving ...
Asia Society

Asia Society Museum presents focused exhibition on an 18th century Chinese map

Asia Society Museum presents a small, focused exhibition centered on a rare, woodblock print masterpiece of a Chinese map, dating to the 1780s or early 1790s. Unique in scope, Ma Junliang’s Capital ...
Hyperallergic

18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida

Example of nearshore coral loss near Key West, Florida, with an excerpt of a 1774 nautical chart with locations of coral in black rectangles, and the same area today on Google Earth, with black ...
Quad-City Times

Vermont state archives puts 18th century survey maps online for landowners, surveyors

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using tools as simple as long chains to measure out towns and lots, their work is going online ...
The Daily News of Newburyport

Custom House receives 18th century map

In 2024, late curator Kevin MacDonald acquired for the Custom House Maritime Museum a collection of 50 Native American ...
KTLA

First map to depict San Francisco heads to auction

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A significant piece of California history is ...
insider.si.edu

An annotated late eighteenth century map of Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham and Wolbert G. C. Smidt

Manuscript notes on Weigel map of Abyssinia, 1792, transcribed by Wolbert Smidt and Christopher Clapham. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...