Here to There: Featured Maps
Below are the maps featured on our episode “Here to There: A History of Mapping” which originally aired in August 2012. You can listen to the entire episode here.
Map Showing the Distribution of the Slave Population of the Southern States of the United States, 1860 (New York Times, Disunion blog)
Catawba Deerskin Map (c. 1721) (LOC)
“The Arid Region of the United States Showing Drainage Districts” by John Wesley Powell, 1890 (Aqueous Advisors)
Borders Proposed by Woodrow Wilson’s “Inquiry” During the Paris Peace Conference. (Isaiah Bowman Papers, Johns Hopkins University, Set 13)
Borders Proposed by Woodrow Wilson’s “Inquiry” During the Paris Peace Conference. (Isaiah Bowman Papers, Johns Hopkins University, Set 13)
Borders Proposed by Woodrow Wilson’s “Inquiry” During the Paris Peace Conference. (Isaiah Bowman Papers, Johns Hopkins University, Set 13)
Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map of the world, starring (erroneously) Amerigo Vespucci
1767 map of the world by Jacob d’Angelo, based on Ptolemy’s Cosmographia
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Quote -- August 10, 2012 @ 3:23 pm
There’s a nice, high-res (10,640 x 8,668 pixels) version of the 1860 slave population map at NOAA’s webiste: http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/preview/image/CWSLAVE
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