Yearly archives: 2023
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Today I have a bumper post for you. Jill colchester is a friend of a friend. She shared these with me. “I was given a bunch of oldish maps so wondered how to use them. And not wanting to waste the paper began drawing and painting on them for an […]
Special day today (just for me, getting one year older) I took this shot in June 2019 in the famous Canarby Street in London.
Greg Fiske took a great shot of the roof of this shelter for passengers waiting for the Woodshole ferry.
Ties and bowties in the London National Army Museum gift shop. Credit: Barry Ruderman (raremaps.com)
Love the maps on the walls of this dolls house classroom in the Spielzeugmuseum, Munich. Great to see all the kids engaged in their Geography lesson! Credit: Barry Ruderman (raremaps.com)
Kathy Hart brought our attention to this beautiful mosaic map of the original topography of Manhattan Island at Battery Park subway station, NYC. I love the way it is an oblique perspective and the use of different coloured tiles for the topographic shading.
Reinder Storm sent us this from Utrecht “Temporary kind of lieu de mémoire, to commemorate a storm that very heavily damaged the Dom cathedral in Utrecht, in 1674. “ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Cathedral,_Utrecht
Berl sent me this pic of an embroidered map by his aunt. “My aunt had a similar map on a wall in her home which she had embroidered. Cheekily I asked if she would make one for my ninth birthday – and she did. Here it is on a wall […]
Reinder sent this pic of a shuttered shop in Amsterdam with a world map in the window. Time moves on.
Micha Silver sent us this pic. “Here’s a wall mosaic on a store front in Shelburn Falls, a small town in western Massachusetts. The town lies on the Shelburn River, and residents have transformed an abandoned train bridge over the river to a beautiful flower exhibition.”
Marc-Tobias sent us this pic of a van showing the car sharing locations in Munster- a very detailed map for the side of a van.