These are cherrypicked from an amazing post over at BibliOdyssey about geographical games and puzzles. There are many, many more images and their descriptions - go check them out. 

Around the World in 80 Days after the Novel by Jules Verne

Chromolithograph game board, Paris: c. 1904-15

(Source: georgeglazer.com)

Milwaukee: “Feeds and Supplies the World”

This poster hung in my grandparents’ house when I was a child. It’s still very common to see it in businesses and restaurants. You can buy them here.

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Simeon De Witt’s star map, 1780.

Recycled vintage map lampshade by Allison Patrick.

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vintage Wonder World globe

via Café Cartolina

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“Forest Ranger board game manufactured in 1940. The game consists of a paperboard box; an instruction sheet; play money; game cards, and a paperboard game board. The box lid and game board read, ‘The Forest Ranger Game in connection with [Civilian Conservation Corps] Camps’ and feature color illustrations of a forest fire, a ranger cabin and a fire tower.”

Long Island Pictorial Map

American: c. 1930s to 1940s

Needlepoint

Old maps of Finland

Map of the World; compiled and printed expressly for Liggett’s, The Rexall Drug Stores.

Cover cartography by George Annand; inside map by C.S. Hammond & Company, NY.

This Etsy seller has a gazillion vintage maps.

Extremely rare woodcuts of the northern and southern skies, circa 1515.

DIY map coasters, with a link to tutorial.

historicaustralia:

Around the Commonwealth by aeroplane [game], ca.1910

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