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Unfolds to show lower Manhattan map raised 1 cm. above cover with numerous pictorial cut-outs of well-known buildings standing erect. Cut-out of World Trade Center is separately included and must be ...

I slogged through thousands of topographic maps and government cartography until I had finally reached the library’s greatly under-sung pictorial map collection.

Map courtesy L.A. Lithograph Co. Inc. 1927 This little gem is a perfect example of the melding of graphic arts and cartography that was done during the golden age of pictorial mapping to draw ...

Prejudiced projection in cartography—and particularly in pictorial mapmaking—may go back as far as the Aztecs or the Europeans, who drew North America and Africa as tiny slivers on the ...

In this age of all things digital, it’s heartening to see that some aspects of human history are still best accessed via old fashioned cartography. That is, through what most of us would call ...

Map Courtesy J. Rapkin, New York Public Library This rare map is among those carefully selected from the New York Public Library’s massive cartography collection for an exhibition of pictorial maps.

It's also the map through time with the ease of quick time and computer graphics and morphing, changing one pattern with another. Time telling a story through a day, a week or a year.