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If you’ve ever wished your favorite fictional universe was real, a new @HarvardMapColl exhibition is for you. “From Academieland to Zelda” explores fictional maps from movies, books, video games, and more. Come check it out in-person: buff.ly/3X1M6zn
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Nicolas de Fer's late 17C "Plan de Tolose divisé en huict capitoulats" #Toulouse #HarvardLibrary
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Henry Francis Walling's #Map of #Piscataquis County #Maine from 1858
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1905 zoning #map of #Cologne "Uebersichtsplan zur Banordnung für den Stadtkreis #Cöln" #HarvardLibrary
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detail of the 2007 @USGS #Map of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park and Wilderness
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Matthaeus Seutter's 1735 #map of #Brussels #HarvardLibrary
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image description: richly hand-colored map of Brussels above a bird's eye view of the city with major landmarks labeled.
1867 #map of the "Exposition universelle" in #Paris including a plan of the palace, park, and garden. #HarvardLibrary
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Homann's 1752 #map of #Venice #HarvardLibrary #Venetia #Italia
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Homann's 1718ish #map of St. Petersburg #SaintPetersburg #map #HarvardLibrary
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Frederik de Wit's late 17C "Accuratissima totius regni Hispaniae Portugallieq. tabula et typus novissimus" #Spain #Portugal #HarvardLibrary
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The Union News Company's indexed #map of the Worlds Columbian exposition at #Chicago, 1893. #HarvardLibrary
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American Geographical Society Library Research Fellowships at @uwmlibraries due 30 Nov. For info: uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/fello…
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The #NileRiverDelta, a detail from a large (182 x 110 cm.) multi-sheet 1743 #map by Richard Pococke of #Egypt, which was "Recently Subjected to His Faithful Eyes, Illustrated by His Travels: Adapted to the Norm of Ancient as well as Modern Choreography." #HarvardLibrary
A chart by John Seller from his Atlas Maritimus (circa 1675) depicting all the "narrow seas" that surround the British Isles, along with a sea monster riding merman (Neptune?) hoisting the King's Colours on his bident. #maps #HarvardLibrary

ALT Image of a nautical chart (titled "A Chart of Ye Narrow Seas") with rhumb lines and oriented with north to the right, showing Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and a bit of the French coast along the English Channel. Also, with an ornate compass rose at the top right of the sheet and a title cartouche (with many aquatic denizens surrounding it) in the lower right. The flag bearing merman is at the top left of the sheet.
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The JCB Library's short (remote or residential) and long-term (residential) research fellowships are key to the intellectual community we want to support. Let us know if we can help support your work! Applications due Jan 9 and available here: jcblibrary.org/fellowships/o…
Erwin Raisz's "United States and Canada - Physiography" with 6 colors showing different kinds of rock and his signature pictorial method for illustrating landforms #HarvardLibrary #maps
"Spatial Pattern of Political Behavior; #Berlin, #Germany" in the municipal elections of 20 Oct 1946 from a 1947 report on German Elections by the Military Governor of the US Zone #HarvardLibrary


















