Tag Archives: Geography

1895: Wage Map

Posted on April 25, 2019 by corvusfugit

Samuel Sewell Greeley: Wage Map No. 1-4, Polk St. to Twelfth, Chicago (1895) (source) In 2019 dollars: $5.00 and less = $7,852 per year and less $5.00 to $10.00 = $7,852 to $15,704 per year $10.00 to $15.00 = $15,704 … Continue reading →

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1188: Two Islands

Posted on April 21, 2018 by corvusfugit

There is a lake in the north of Munster which contains two islands, one rather large and the other rather small. The larger has a church venerated from the earliest times. The smaller has a chapel cared for most devotedly … Continue reading →

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1928: Holiday in Bangkok

Posted on December 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

Map, frontispiece, and cover of the Royal State Railways’s Guide to Bangkok with Notes on Siam (1928); the frontispiece shows Wat Arun at night.

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1856: Mountains & Rivers

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

G.W. Colton: Mountains & Rivers from Colton’s Atlas Of The World, Illustrating Physical And Political Geography. By George W. Colton. Accompanied By Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, By Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. (1856). Click for detail. (source)

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2013: A Child’s Map

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sweden was the first country to outlaw corporal punishment of children—in 1979. As of 2013, when this map was produced by Save the Children, 52 countries had done so.

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1703: Forseeing Things to Come

Posted on August 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

In 1703, the Scottish writer Martin Martin published A description of the Western Islands of Scotland. : Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion … Continue reading →

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1933: World Revolution

Posted on August 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

April 3, 1933: Workers gluing maps to globes at the Geographia factory in London.

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2012: The Geography of Incarceration

Posted on June 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The United States is the prison capital of the world. This is not news to most people. When discussing the idea of mass incarceration, we often trot out numbers and dates and charts to explain the growth of imprisonment as … Continue reading →

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1960’s: Music Lessons

Posted on June 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jiří Kolář: Globus s notovými osnovami (1960’s) (source) The literal translation seems to be something like “Globe with a curriculum of musical scores.” So maybe “Globe with Music Lessons”?

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300 mya: Before the Breakup

Posted on June 1, 2017 by corvusfugit

The primordial supercontinent Pangaea (~300 – 175 mya) with current political boundaries. Map by Massimo Pietrobon. (source)

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