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New York, 1939 RP: The New York World's Fair maps are from the Official Guidebook to the New York World's Fair, 1939.
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Oakland, 1942 RP: The Oakland/SF Bay map with the airbases blanked out is a 1942 urban topographic map made by the Army Map Service for homeland defense. It is restricted, but not classified, and as...
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United States, 1939 RP: The RCA Radio Tours map (ca. 1939) was a promotional item distributed by RCA radio dealers and perhaps through magazine advertising.
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tktkt, 1938 RP: The Range Sheep map was compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and included in a 1938 pamphlet on migration of sheep in the...
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California, 1947 RP: The Richfield Highway Relief maps were issued in 1947, though similar maps date back at least to the 1920s. They were included in a special regional booklet targeted at...
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Above: San Francisco, 1980 During the Cold War, both the US and Soviet Union actively mapped the world, covering allies and foes alike. Rick says this map appears to be adapted from US government...
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San Francisco, 1951 RP: The evacuation map of San Francisco comes from a Civil Defense booklet entitled "It's Your Life...The San Francisco Plan," published 1951 by the San Francisco Disaster Council...
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Cuba, 1962 Rick says this map of Cuba, produced by the American-owned oil company Esso, was probably the last edition before the Cuban government nationalized Esso's oil facilities because they refused...
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The Span of Andromeda The full view of M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) taken by HSC. The HSC mounted on the Subaru Telescope can observe an extremely wide field of view, equal to 9 times the area of the...
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Homeopathy: Medicine for People Who Failed Medical School, and Probably Middle School as Well Here’s a fun little home experiment. Get a beer and dilute it with water to the point where the beer...
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Look, I’m not here to tell you what to think. But you need to be grateful for science – all of it. Even the crazy stuff. Even for folks who could have sworn it was possible to turn iron into gold, and...
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Magellanic Stream Source Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway...
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Erie Area, 1944 This map appeared in the January, 1944 issue of Fortune magazine. Rick says it was part of an ad for the Erie Railroad targeted at businessmen and industrialists in need of railroad...
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United States, 1959 This Arabic (or is it Farsi?) map of the U.S. was made by the General Drafting Company under contract from the U.S. Information Agency, whose mission was to generate positive...
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New York, 1939 More than 44 million people attended the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940. The maps above and below were printed in the official guidebook. The fair focused on the world of...
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Oakland, 1942 This wartime map made by the Army Map Service hides potentially sensitive information, blanking out the airbase at Alameda and Navy base on Treasure Island.
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United States, 1939 Say it's 1940 and you're out for a Sunday drive. You want to fire up that newfangled radio thingamabob and find some Benny Goodman. But where, oh where to turn the dial? You...
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Western U.S., 1938 This map, compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shows the seasonal migration routes of sheep in the western states.
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