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The hand-drawn map was created by Carlisle native Alexandria Shope, who’s worked with Historic Carlisle, Inc., and the Cumberland County Historical Society to make sure it was accurate and unique.
The 21-by-40 inch map titled "Rough sketch of the King's Domain at Detroit" shows a "specific plan" of the city, its defense bases, Fort Lernoult and plans that never came to fruition.
A map of Greenwich Village from The Greenwich Village Quill (1925).Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.. Previously on The Vault: Speakeasy cards used in Prohibition-era New York City.
The hand-colored map is titled, "Rough sketch of the King's Domain at Detroit." It was drawn on high-quality, watermarked 18th-century paper, signed by its author, D.W. Smith (Capt. David William ...
While this map throws geographical accuracy to the wind, it does capture the wild vitality of L.A. in the ‘90s by creating a bubbling cartographic stew full of chaotic activity ...
Yet there’s something lovely about visiting a friend in a foreign city and receiving a hand-drawn map, usually scribbled on a napkin, marked with their favorite coffee shops or kebab stands.
A 400-year-old map showing parts of York as they were in the early 17th Century has gone on public display. Samuel Parson's 1624 map of Dringhouses and the Knavesmire is one of the oldest in York ...
The images above are details from a new map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood), a British map artist. The goal, Wood says, was to capture his relationship with the city over the past 10 ...
The librarian there told Local 12 they received the copy of the hand-drawn map from the National Archives in D.C., which holds hundreds of boxes of city survey files.