Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten
From the mid-1880s through the 1890s, reformers in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York experimented with maps to make sense of an exploding immigrant population. Considered together, what might these maps tell us about...
A vivid exhibit of maps made in Boston in the century prior to the Revolution is open through March 10, 2014 at the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center. The...
David Rumsey has uploaded a rare 1885 map of San Francisco that represents the height of the anti-Chinese movement in California. The map accompanied a lengthy report of the city’s...