Featured Maps
La Jolla "The Jewel"
1968
A delightful and quite scarce pictorial of the Village and vicinity in 1968. Covers as far south as Bird Rock and North to the Torrey Pines Golf Course which is noted as “Golfer’s Paradise”. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the est...
Sportsman's Map of Orego
1965
Published for the Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. of Portland, OR. The text welcomes both the “Sportsman” and the “Sport”. “Come on over to Oregon and Relax in a State of excitement”.Selander was a noted modernist ...
A Chart of Manhattan
1936
This pocket-size folding map was produced for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. It shows principal sights, shopping districts, churches and clubs. Hornsby ("PIcturing America") notes: "Annand liked to use orange as his base color in his maps,...
Central Map of Tehran
1961
This is a 1961 Addass Sahab city plan or map of central Tehran, Iran. Composed almost entirely in English, streets throughout the area are labeled using Latin characters. A handful of locations around the city are identified on the map as well, including th...
A Pictorial Map South Africa
1950
This charming souvenir map was created by Bernard Sargent for the South African Tourist Corporation. The map shows the major roads and the sites that can be seen along those roads, representing "diverse places and extraordinary manner of stran...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1950
An attractive and privately published map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of Indio, California, specializing in...
East Africa. Land of Sunshine
1949
This lively map of East Africa, includes modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda. Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to...
Plan de Paris
1927
Karasz's dramatic map of Paris is typical of her design: rich in colour and detail; references theatre and textiles; combining old cartographical tropes with ideas drawn from the work of Max Gill.Her prize-winning textile designs for the “Desi...
Ragbrai XIV
1986
Carolyn Blattel-Britton was a local Iowa artist. This pictorial map was done for the XIV running of the Ragbrai Bicycle cross-country race*. The race covers over 400 mile from Mineola to Muscatine and the artist shows many of the small towns and local si...
Aeroplane Map of Sydney, Australia
c1909
An interesting early aviation piece. Centered on Sydney Town Hall, the map covers from Lavender Street in North Sydney to Victoria Park, and from Elizabeth Island to Potts Point. The map follows in the tradition of similar maps issued of Paris,...
