Map showing the Slave Population of Southern USA, 1861 - Colorizebot version
“I love the idea that this pattern is related to the shallow Cretaceous sea that once covered the area millions of years ago. The past echoes long into the future”–aftersox
Russian America in 1860
“Imagine what the cold war would have been like if Russia hadn’t sold Alaska to the us”–Motorgoose
Map of the United States and Mexico (1859)
“From the latest issue (Autumn 2017) of International Map Collectors’ Society Journal www.imcos.org/journals/
One of the maps included in an interesting article: The Changing American West.
Some features shown: The proposed territory of Colona and Jefferson, a Big Nebraska territory, and the proposed territory of Arizona from the southern part of New Mexico”–AJgloe
1812 map of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata - by John Pinkerton
[6415 x 8914]
1838 map of Australia - with manuscript additions showing proposed states
“Dividing Queensland ? Doesn’t that come up in conversation every so often?”–feathersoft
Military map of the Danish Island of Als – drawn at the conclusion of the 1st War of Schleswig-Holstein in 1851 ; produced in the outbreak of the 2nd Schleswig-Holstein war in 1864
[4728 × 4791]
“I just glanced at the picture before reading the titel and was like ‘wtf, why is that a picture of Als’”–Packimus
1869 panoramic map of the Nile River Delta and the Suez Canal region
[9172 x 6477]
1893 map of Melbourne, Victoria
[8207 x 9751]
“Amazing! I can see where my house would be. Only a street away from undeveloped bushland right on the edge of the map”–acockblockedorange
1813 map of Australia, New Zealand & New Guinea
“Sydney really does look a lot like Chepstow if you close your eyes”–SmokeyBlazingwood16
1821 Cary Map of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia
“Maine should be shown as it’s own state since it was admitted into the union in 1820”–nassara1229
1860 map of Montenegro
[9762 x 6964]
“South=West, North=East, West=North, East=South”–esteebangus2008
Wallis’s 1808 dissected jigsaw map of world
Laredo, Texas in 1892
[9229 x 5956]
“Wow, this is so detailed and hi-res. Also “Splendid business openings for men of push and energy”“–oakk
1863 map of Waikato River from North/South Head to Putataka, New Zealand, North Island, west coast - by John G. Boulton
1840 map of Australia - by A. Arrowsmith
“Van Diemen’s Land would have been the coolest name for a state but they changed it to Tasmania in 1856. It was a rebranding and apparently, “New Van Diemen’s Land” was too verbose”–pologolfpolo
“It was because “Van Diemen’s Land” had a reputation as a convict hellhole full of horrible murderers and other criminals”–superegz
Romanians in Hungary (1890 census, drawn in 1897)
“Still 59% Romanians compared to top 30% hungarians. And this is a hungarian census that were usually counting gypsies and jews as hungarians. The censuses were usually language based and not ethnic based. Meaning that even if you were a Romanian that knew a bit of hungarian, they’d register you as hungarian”–vladgrinch
1856 map of Mississippi and Louisiana - by John Bartholomew
“So many changes in south Louisiana place names since then Tigertown—>Donner Alligator—>Gibson/Amelia Paincourt—>Paincourtville Assumption—>Napoleonville Thibodeau—>Thibodaux”–Jdedjr
The geographical distribution of ethnic groups in the world in 1500 and 1800 (published 1890)
[8828 x 7342]
1863 map of the province of Queensland
“Noice, so I assume this was a little before it was declared as a self governing colony”–ZeTian
1863 map of New Zealand - by James Wyld
[3452 × 5000]
“A lot of the old names are interesting, for example which Canterbury rivers retained their Anglo names in popular usage and which ones have entirely reverted to the Maori names”–danrharvey
Geographical distribution of indigenous vegetation (1856) - by A.K. Johnston & Arthur Henfrey
[8736 x 7403]
“Alexander von Humboldt originated this type of map as explained in the book The Invention of Nature, a good biography of Humboldt”–captaintoews19
The Temple of Time (1846) - by Emma Willard
[9872 x 6996]
