Bootlegger’s Map of the United States, 1926
An illustrated map of the US responded to Prohibition with puns.
Cartography
The Map: The Principal Mountains and Rivers of the World, 1829
A comparison chart illustrating the beauty that science could produce.
The Map: Vesuvius, 1832
Kate Wiles on Auldjo’s artistic map of Vesuvius across 200 year of major eruptions.
The Map: Granada, 1521
Kate Wiles highlights the Ottoman cartographer Piri Re’is and his charts, which blend navigation and art.
The Map: The Road from London to Dover, 1675
A look at John Ogilby's Britannia road atlas.
The Map: Beverly Hills, 1926
Kate Wiles on a ‘map to the stars’, designed to promote a Los Angeles neighbourhood to Hollywood’s new celebrities.
Atlantis at its Prime, 1896
The earth's surface as it might have looked when the ‘Atlantean race’ was at its height.
Marshall Island Stick Charts
Kate Wiles explores a unique nautical chart, designed to be understood only by its creator.
The Map: Tenochtitlan, 1524
Kate Wiles provides context for the first European image of the Aztec capital, razed by the Spanish in 1521.
The Great Fire of London
The rebuilding of London required an image of what had been lost. Kate Wiles shares one such survey from 1669.