Interesting example of a Rebus -- a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters. The present example was utilized by a church in Keene, New Hampshire, to attract attention to its call for members to attend...
![[Photo Album: Urban Military Academy -- Yosemite Summer Camp -- Hollywood Boys School -- Black Face Images]](/map/small/68607.jpg)
Summer Camp In Yosemite For Hollywood's Elite -- Includes Black Face Images and Indian Costume! Urban Military Academy Yosemite summer camp photo album, containing 11 black and white photographs of the summer excursion to Yosemite. Urban Military...
![[Charles Lindbergh] Spirit of St. Louis](/map/small/69234.jpg)
Spirit of St. Louis is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris.
![[Charles Lindbergh / New York to Paris View] Spirit of St. Louis](/map/small/69235.jpg)
Spirit of St. Louis is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. At the left, the Lindbergh's plane flies over New York and past the Statue of Liberty. At the right, a view of...
Breeding Chickens in the San Fernando Valley Finely executed advertising artwork for the Dunsmore Poultry Ranch of Van Nuys, California, likely drawn in the 1920s. On the left side of the coat of arms is a bird's-eye view looking westward from Van...
![[Charles Lindbergh] Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis](/map/small/67114.jpg)
Unusual portrait of Charles Lindbergh on linen, which was apparently intended a a do-it-yourself sampler. The item shows a pattern intended for embroidery, but only the left side of the Lindbergh's suit jacket has been stitched with black and blue...
Scarce Western Airlines travel poster for San Diego. We estimated the date based upon the San Diego skyline and the cars in the parking lot of the marina.
Interesting Greek-language didactic chart showing the process of nuclear fission for Uranium 235. The image above shows Uranium 235 splitting into Xenon and Strontium. The diagram at the bottom ("ΑΛΥΣΩΤΗ ΑΝΤΙΔΡΑΣΙΣ", i.e., "Chain...
Wonderful 12-sheet Vietnamese-language color-lithographed map of the region around Hanoi in northern Vietnam. Bound as separate sheets in the original publisher's portfolio, along with a general map showing how the sheets combine. The twelve sheets...
![[Early Facsimile of the Hereford Mappamundi] Hanc quam videtis terrarum orbis tabulam : descripsit delineavitque Ricardus de Haldingham sive de Bello dictus A.S. circa M.C.C.C.](/map/small/66477.jpg)
Edward Luther Stevenson's Facsimile of the Hereford Mappamundi. Early photographic reproduction of the Edward Stanford chromolithograph facsimile of the Hereford Mappamundi, perhaps the most famous world map from the British Isles. The well-known map...
![[Early Photographic Facsimile of the Portolano Laurenziano Gaddiano World Map]](/map/small/66463.jpg)
Early Photograph of the 1351 Medici-Laurentian World Map, from the Collection of Edward Luther Stevenson. A wonderful early photographic facsimile of the famous and very important world map from the Medici-Laurentian Atlas of 1351. The map, composed...
![[Early Photographic Facsimile of the Catalan-Estense World Map]](/map/small/66756.jpg)
A Fantastic Nine-Sheet Facsimile of an Important Early World Map. From the Collection of Famed Early Map Scholar Edward Luther Stevenson. Finely executed black and white photographic image on 9 sheets of the Catalan world map in the Biblioteca...
![[Early Photographic Facsimile of the 1502 Cantino Planisphere]](/map/small/67278.jpg)
From the Edward Luther Stevenson Collection. A fine early photographic facsimile of the Cantino planisphere, one of the most important early world maps to show discoveries in the Americas. This planisphere is the earliest surviving map showing...
Rare map of the world, showing California as an island from a rare Jesuit emblem book, entitled Imago Prrimi Aaeculi Soc. Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica Ejusdejm . . . representation of the baby Jesus is shown between the two hemisphere Within...
![[World - Hand Drawn Map]](/map/small/65170.jpg)
Interesting double hemisphere map of the world, drawn by an anonymous French hand. The map shows New Zealand after the discoveries of Captain James Cook, as is Australia. The Northwest Coast of America is also shown based upon Cook's discoveries,...
![[Cyrillic -- Eastern & Western Hemispheres]](/map/small/32514.jpg)
Rare set of Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere maps, with place names in Cyrillic, likely published at the end of the 18th Century. The maps show Hawaii, but Tasmania (Van Diemens Land) is still attached to the mainland of Australia, which...
