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David Rumsey Map Collection

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David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Apr 25 2023

3 sets of 12 Peter Bellerby & Co Globemakers 65cm hand painted untrimmed 2023 Globe Gores. The Bellerby globe gores were georeferenced using a Polyconic projection and then reprojected to create different virtual interactive globes and maps. See all 45 at https://t.co/3KyDyifYbS https://t.co/xSbllYRJuz

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Apr 16 2023

Full program for Machines Reading Maps Conference April 20-21 at David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Library. Charting the future of historical cartography as data. https://t.co/d6KhCkXFT3 Register for public session https://t.co/yl5sUKhFlT https://t.co/LZQtXjWpW9

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 25 2023

The first data visualization flow maps, predating Minard's flow maps by several years, from the 1838 Irish Railway Commission Atlas. And a pioneering choropleth population map of Ireland, as well as the first geological map of Ireland, in the same atlas. https://t.co/zp1satyBYZ https://t.co/9iwlyZUfrR

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 20 2023

New exhibit at Stanford Rumsey Map Center- Seeing Cities: 10 Maps Over 200 Years. March 1 - May 31, 2023. Opening event April 19, 2023 4:30-6:30pm. Weekdays 1-5pm. Seeing the history of cities through these maps provides unique perspectives on forces that shape the urban world. https://t.co/IorGa7IGPl

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 16 2023

Stunning images from Sigismond Visconti's 1830 Tableaux du Système Planétaire. Showing the solar system, orbit of the annual revolution of the earth around the sun and indication of the seasons, phases of the moon, eclipses of the sun and moon, and more. https://t.co/0i16xxgkJD https://t.co/xIaU4uVOWY

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 5 2023

Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center is seeking a new Head and Curator to lead the Center. Details and contacts here: https://t.co/J1bX1w0pGC https://t.co/t8deGGwi5a

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 4 2023

Buckminster Fuller first published his Dymaxion World Globe in Life Magazine, March 1, 1943. Very different from his 1954 edition of the Dymaxion Globe. We digitally assembled his 14 gores as Life readers might have done physically with paper and tape. https://t.co/BlraArzd7n https://t.co/tTllSImPvh

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 27 2023

A gem of Soviet data visualization from 1933 - ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union]. https://t.co/nBznSt3sxw https://t.co/NUcyqTFwmG

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 11 2023

The Rumsey maps online image database crossed over 120,000 items today. A milestone of sorts. 10 million map images downloaded since site opened in 1999. View link below for 500+ selections from the past 5 years of additions. https://t.co/D456JU4Ki9 https://t.co/au9pDv5wWb

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 22 2023

400 years of Timelines from 1606 to 2005. Mapping time is a powerful area of cartography - time as space and space in time. Over 300 examples in our collection can be seen at https://t.co/kv4fOEXr9e https://t.co/UtepaxJIGl

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 14 2023

The beautiful cartography of Eduard Imhof created for a Swiss middle school atlas - "Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas herausgegeben von der Konferenz der kantonalen Erziehungsdirektoren. Fünfzehnte Auflage, 1969." https://t.co/Gm27h16yrc https://t.co/9TFnlnN4Ed

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Dec 28 2022

Early data visualization: William Playfair "An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations ..." 1805 https://t.co/XZFKXUKFmS https://t.co/f4RliozRkn

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Oct 25 2022

Launched the 10ft rotating 1587 Urbano Monte wall map today with our friends from @JSKstanford https://t.co/WDWNTbyJIA https://t.co/xCzIkSFUzZ

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Sep 30 2022

Architectural Fictions. 1933. Chernikhov. Landmark work of Soviet architectural fantasies, with dramatic designs of possible cities, factories and monumental buildings. This is one of the most exciting books on architecture issued in the twentieth century. https://t.co/1kx2eDpgSU https://t.co/QTjqiadEC0

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Sep 29 2022

Paris data visualization 1967: Atlas de Paris et de la Region Parisienne. With thanks to @infowetrust for telling us about this remarkable data production. By Association Universitaire de Recherches Cartographiques et Géographiques. https://t.co/T2IMmc8DxH https://t.co/HEERzOPFRt

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Aug 14 2022

Images from one of the most popular Moon books of the 19th century, Nasmyth and Carpenter's 1874 "The Moon." Using plaster modeling and raked lighting they created stunning illusions of seeing the moon's surface in three dimensions. https://t.co/Jwfsh4BOkt https://t.co/803xHgLY8T

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Aug 5 2022

Citizenship for Democracy Charts, 1962, A.J. Nystrom & Co.. With thanks to RJ Andrews @infowetrust and Jason Forrest @jasonforrestftw for bringing these 16 wall maps to our attention. View here: https://t.co/51OuHbLgD5 https://t.co/4mHoXMAxzN

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jul 30 2022

1964 plastic relief Hawaiian Islands. Images by Glenn Bachmann. https://t.co/aU0xsmmGXM https://t.co/5xMbGHYWeg

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jul 17 2022

1789 first edition of the infamous slave ship diagram. Published in Philadelphia by Mathew Carey. Appeared in the May, 1789 edition of the American Museum Magazine at the request of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and galvanized anti-slavery sentiment. https://t.co/EWdX8RPHCd https://t.co/0syHUV6Moy

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jul 9 2022

California Map Society, 2022 Conference: David Rumsey Interview https://t.co/aYL7LgvJ10 via @YouTube https://t.co/8OQ8gY0AAL

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Apr 10 2022

Largest 18th century scenographic or geometric city view - Joseph Huber's 1769 Vienna, Austria, in 24 sheets. 3.5x4.2 meters when joined. In tradition of Turgot's Paris of 1739. Incredible detail of city life and form. https://t.co/SlDeXUwnYO https://t.co/ylaq0MzrXO

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 16 2022

Ukraine and its neighbors. 1525 to 1998. 473 years in 329 maps. https://t.co/EtaXOaENIa https://t.co/5KPqMzATte

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 12 2022

The 1970 National Atlas of the United States was the last and greatest major paper atlas issued by the US Government. 770 maps and 18 charts. This huge endeavor produced beautiful maps and data visualizations covering almost every aspect of American life. https://t.co/DyGOAiHAoL https://t.co/qve6ybQ69A

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 4 2022

New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps. mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps. The data generated will make the Rumsey Map Collection the first large digitized map collection in the world to be fully searchable via text. https://t.co/ahdNd2Df0N

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 15 2022

Haikou Quantu 海口全圖 [Complete Map of Sea Ports]. Wanguo tu & Wukou Yanhai Shuilu Quantu 萬國圖 & 五口沿海水路全圖 [Map of 10,000 Countries & Complete Map of the Five Coastal Estuaries]. 22 ft Chinese painted scroll map of entire coast of China in 1800. https://t.co/fqhWUd1hLz https://t.co/C95rjixUHa

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 29 2022

Connie Zheng: "Routes/Roots traces the ways in which major food plants — from peppers to watermelons to coffee — have traversed the world over the past several millennia, along with the human activities that have enabled or necessitated their movement."https://t.co/GhYrOIoYhN https://t.co/AYlXItUj8W

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 25 2022

More Than Digital Copies: Maps That Interpret Maps. We have created 1,674 interpretive composite maps, views, and texts as well as over 56,000 georeferenced maps. All these interpret and expand our understanding of the over 113,000 digital maps online. https://t.co/fODEGz15Kb https://t.co/L64uMIjnVP

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 15 2022

14 large scale joined sheets of the 1923 Grand Canyon survey proposing 25 possible dam sites, including Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) which was built 10 years later. All 25 sites were within the national park. https://t.co/MWv7qG1Css https://t.co/oWc6CGkIuT

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Dec 19 2021

Grim and powerful slave ship diagram appeared in Clarkson's 1808 "History of. ... the Abolition of the African Slave Trade" along with lesser known rivers data visualization chart showing evolution of the abolition movement. Brought to us by @infowetrust. https://t.co/RwX61kzo61 https://t.co/krxvH8aLx2

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Dec 4 2021

Baron Haussmann builds and plans the new Paris boulevards as seen in his 1868 Atlas Administratif des 20 arrondissements de la ville de Paris https://t.co/IrMANNOrbp https://t.co/KkcENtkhK6

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