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David Rumsey Map Collection

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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
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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

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Nov 27 2021

17th century German clock and sundial maker Franz Ritter's beautiful gnomonic projection maps and diagrams from 1610 offer unusual world views that can also be used as sundials. From his 1660 book Speculum Solis - Mirror of the Sun. https://t.co/99fGRBAFlC https://t.co/SBvjIDYawc

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Nov 19 2021

One of the best 20th century atlas title pages: Atlas geografico de la Republica Mexicana : Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento : Direccion de Estudios Geograficos y Climatologicos 1919-1921. https://t.co/IJMNn3IhTu Entire atlas: https://t.co/zVkABGczfI https://t.co/eaAIXO4G1M

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Oct 19 2021

A major milestone in demographic analysis and data visualization - Bertillon's 1874 La démographie figurée de la France. Mortality in France by age, sex and marital status. With thanks to @infowetrust for bringing it to our attention. https://t.co/kGof0MyBkK https://t.co/Z1V1oCXF0i

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Oct 16 2021

1949 Altas de Cuba, by Gerardo Canet and Erwin Raisz, Harvard University. "A living picture of Cuban Geography.” The maps and data visualizations combine Canet's extensive data collections with Raisz's elegant cartography. https://t.co/nglpva842h https://t.co/UGVGxcVdWa

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Sep 26 2021

For non Russian speakers, the note field in app link for the whole 1936 Russian atlas gives an English description of the images and graphics.

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Sep 26 2021

More amazing Soviet data visualization: in Russian, the 1936 celebration of achievements since the 1918 revolution. Inspired isotypes and art work. Source for the 1939 English edition (see our previous tweet). https://t.co/5T2C6LKjPL and https://t.co/9fHzY9UOGU - 1939 edition. https://t.co/0kc3VC4foJ

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Aug 29 2021

Blindenbuch - Artist book for the blind - 1988 by Olaf Wegewitz, East Germany. 9 pressed paper abstract landscapes with text in Braille. https://t.co/G1JnZ1SZVI https://t.co/nQJxdr0HY3

David Rumsey
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Aug 8 2021

Peter Apian's 1553 Cosmographica explains the world and its place in the universe with maps and data visualizations. Apian, German cartographer, mathematician and astronomer, published significant 16th century works on astronomy, geography and cosmography. https://t.co/c2IJ2XsZxm https://t.co/FxI8oQ4J3P

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jul 4 2021

The sacrifices of Greece in the Second World War, by the Greek Office of Country and Town Planning and the Ministry of Reconstruction; printed by Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts Ltd. in Athens, 1946. Data visualization of destruction and immense suffering. https://t.co/KXOHWVzXA5 https://t.co/BsRvXyt4CK

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jun 29 2021

Percival Lowell's fantastic1894 globe drawings of canals on Mars made by "intelligent beings." His art/science prefigured the rise of Constructivism and the end of celestial art. Disproven 70 years later by NASA, the magic of Lowell's drawings persists. https://t.co/0NSlqDfHsi https://t.co/ALKu8hgLcb

David Rumsey
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Jun 2 2021

1960's NASA set of the last artistically drawn and airbrushed with India ink Moon maps. These 44 remained the most detailed Lunar cartography until photographs taken on orbital missions. Their "extra" reality shows what was lost to later photography. https://t.co/mG0WBs2UOt https://t.co/cLd4uYj1Fu

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
May 31 2021

Impressive Japanese Data Viz 1930 - Teito Fukkō Jigyō Zuhyō 帝都復興事業図表 (Statistical Graphics Illustrating the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Project). https://t.co/tyyatMC9Q8 Precursor to 1935 Graphic Illustration of Tokyo City https://t.co/QzZ2mBvmu2 https://t.co/N4CH4IFT8N

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
May 18 2021

Soviet propaganda publication for 1939 NYC Worlds Fair: "USSR : An Album Illustrating the State Organization and National Economy of the U.S.S.R." El Lissitzky design meets Otto Neurath inspired isotypes. Communist data viz. Link: https://t.co/VMKCFdy31N https://t.co/Ume2Ibldjq

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Apr 3 2021

Mountains and Rivers maps amaze as early data visualizations. See more than 500 here - https://t.co/jY8XNFXPec https://t.co/zmdgW3dqlE

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 31 2021

Johannes Vermeer's 1669 painting "The Geographer" has our 1621 Willem Blaeu sea chart of Europe on the wall... https://t.co/HyEVdXdCbP https://t.co/6E2TEBLHG1

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Mar 30 2021

Extraordinary Japanese data visualization - 東京市勢圖表 = Tōkyo Shisei Zuhyo = Graphic Illustration of Tokyo City. 東京市, Tokyo shi, Showa 10 (1935). https://t.co/qr0Tn4dFSx https://t.co/qNSCMko2UQ

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 27 2021

Online Rumsey Maps Reach 105,000. Part Two -2017 Additions. Read full blog post - https://t.co/zAcU82RPKy https://t.co/TO4bOx17ep

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 13 2021

1961 America: total destruction and total escape, two sides of the same newspaper page. https://t.co/ZB4qqJcZk7 https://t.co/HOnKkkxoWR

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Feb 12 2021

Now online: Third of three statistical atlases of Budapest, Hungary, by Lajos Illyefalvi, 1940: "A székesföváros jelentösége hazánk anyagi és szellemi müvelödésében." (The Importance of the Capital City in our Country’s Material and Intellectual Culture.) https://t.co/qxlfBDEizo https://t.co/tvLDXIiN4o

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 4 2021

Now online: Second of three statistical atlases of Budapest, Hungary, by Lajos Illyefalvi, published in 1937. "Budapest székesföváros áruforgalma. "(Trade accounts of Budapest.) https://t.co/zOubSiq4nH https://t.co/VJ4qFWwIge

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jan 2 2021

25 Maps of Silicon Valley and Other Tech Hubs https://t.co/pfe7NlkLoU https://t.co/kKv2YxSMy2

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Dec 21 2020

18 Interactive Globes Added to Rumsey Map Collection https://t.co/R86Vi30FhS https://t.co/QQMiOg8y3c

David Rumsey
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Sep 16 2020

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David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jul 18 2020

The United States as viewed by California (Very unofficial) - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Zoomable: https://t.co/Y7eB2Jg4FU https://t.co/tl0eWm0zby

David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
Jun 25 2020

Online Rumsey Maps Reach 100,000. Part One - 2016 Additions. Read full blog post - https://t.co/mLFGeejRrl https://t.co/q5yPBqDRpm

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