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Chimney Rags Revealed to Be a Rare 17th-Century Map

by Allison Meier December 7, 2016

The National Library of Scotland received a bundle found in a chimney, and six months of conservation revealed the rags to be a rare 17th-century map.

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Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps

by Allison Meier December 7, 2016December 6, 2016

The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.

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100 Years of Artists’ Maps of New York City

by Carey Dunne November 25, 2016November 26, 2016

Artists and designers through the age have imposed their visions of the present and future on an always-changing New York.

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A Guide to Urban Havens in NYC, from a Quaker Meeting House to a Bird-Watching Refuge

by Allison Meier October 20, 2016October 20, 2016

The National Park Service and the Cultural Landscape Foundation launch a guide to New York City’s cultural landscapes as part of a series on urban design.

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An Incredible Map Collection Gets Its First Physical Home

by Allison Meier September 9, 2016September 10, 2016

Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography.

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Maps Made to Influence and Deceive

by Allison Meier August 4, 2016August 3, 2021

Some maps are not designed to chart geography, but to express a particular belief.

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Discover NYC’s Over 1,000 Public Artworks with a New Interactive Map

by Allison Meier August 1, 2016August 14, 2016

New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map

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Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture

by Allison Meier July 13, 2016July 15, 2016

The building blocks of urban landscapes are often riddled with fossils, with Jurassic reptile bones and Cretaceous sea creatures sometimes emerging from the stone surfaces.

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Charting Chinese History with 17th-Century Jesuit World Maps

by Rebecca Cheong May 2, 2016May 2, 2016

Mounted on remnants of the old Ming Dynasty city wall, which once surrounded Beijing, are Western clocks and astronomical instruments for observing celestial bodies.

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A Collection of Creative Cartographers’ Madcap Maps

by Claire Voon April 4, 2016April 18, 2016

Originally intended purely as tools for navigation, maps have long branched off from this practical function to become an unexpected medium for visual expression.

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A New Tool Maps the NYC Landmarks Near You

by Allison Meier March 17, 2016August 3, 2021

Last month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to recommend 30 of the sites from its backlog of nearly 100 as potential landmarks.

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Painted Maps Jam-Packed with Data

by Carey Dunne March 4, 2016March 9, 2016

Paula Scher, the first female principal of Pentagram and designer of identities for the Public Theater and Tiffany’s — not to mention hundreds of hit album covers — grew up surrounded by maps.

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