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Sepia toned image showing a desert landscape with canyon in background

A Landmark Atlas of the Grand Canyon

Posted by: Tim St. Onge

Colored map showing the city of Boston in the center with buildings, surrounded by a river.

John Bachmann’s Bird’s Eye Views

Posted by: Meagan Snow

Detail of a map of New York City that shows the subway lines in different colors.

What Goes Up Must Come Down: A brief history of New York City’s elevated rail and subway lines

Posted by: Sonia Kahn

A landsat image of part of Iceland.

Mapping the Land of Fire and Ice

Posted by: Cynthia Smith

Initial design plan for landscape architecture of Chicago South Park Chicago.

Chicago’s South Park by Fredrick Law Olmsted

Posted by: Carissa Pastuch

Lost Pages and Hidden Libraries: my quest to find the first book printed in the Americas

Posted by: John Hessler

View of completed St. Louis Bridge, with steamboats in Mississippi River, surrounded by eight views of stages of bridge construction, based on photographs taken in 1874 by R. Benecke, sections of pier and machinery.

Pictorial St. Louis – The Great Metropolis of the Mississippi Valley

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Brown, red, and yellow tinted map illustration of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, with a circular frame around them

Maps of the Good Roads Movement

Posted by: Meagan Snow

Illustrated and illuminated map of the northern Indian Ocean showing ships, islands, wildlife, cities, and people

Winds of (Ex)Change in the Indian Ocean

Posted by: Amelia Raines