Showing posts with label map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label map. Show all posts

Sunday, December 27, 2015

The Suggestion That Primitive Eden Was at the Arctic Pole Seems at First Sight the Most Incredible of All Wild and Willful Paradoxes (1885)

William F. Warren, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; A Study of the Prehistoric World (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885), frontispiece.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

All Efforts to Reach the Pole Had Failed Notwithstanding the Unlimited Sacrifice of Gold and Energy and Blood Which Had Been Poured out without Stint for Nearly Four Centuries (1910)

Robert Edwin Peary, “Stellar Projection: Showing the Relation of the Polar Sea to the Various Continents,” The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910), xxxiii.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

If Christ Came to Chicago (1894)

Ninteenth Precinct, Harrison & Dearborn, Chicago 1984 showing location of brothels, pawnbrokers, saloons & lodging houses.
Ninteenth Precinct, Dearborn & Polk, Chicago 1984 showing location of brothels, pawnbrokers, saloons & lodging houses.
William Thomas Stead. If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer. (Chicago: Laird and Lee Publishers, 1894).


Thursday, September 20, 2012

City of Chicago (1912)

City of Chicago 1912 map
Chicago for the Tourist. (Chicago: Passenger Department, Illinois Central Railroad, 1912).

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Lake of the Sun (1877/1892)

Aurthur Vaughan Abbott. "Our Neighbor Mars." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 34 (July-December 1892).

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Canals on Mars (1866/1910)

Canals on Mars observed by MM. Perrotin and Thollon, 1866.
Robert Stawell Ball. In the High Heavens. (London: Sir Issac Pittman and Sons, 1910). 

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Natural & Artificial Lines (1907)

Edward S. Morse. Mars and its Mystery. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907).

Monday, March 5, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Mars North Polar Cap (1906)

Percival Lowell. Mars and Its Canals. (The Macmillan Company, 1906).

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Strange Markings on Mars (1884)

Garrett P. Serviss. "The Strange Markings on Mars." The Popular Science Monthly. 35 (May 1889).

Friday, March 2, 2012

Southern Hemisphere of Mars (1914)

C.E. Housden. The Riddle of Mars: The Planet. (New York: Longman, Green, and Company, 1914).

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Chart of Mars (1888)

"Maps and Views of Mars." Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Literature, & Art. 11 (September 1888).