Maps of Jazz History and the Harlem Renaissance

theatlantic: 

And (another!) literary map of the United States. [Literary Gift Company]

(via fuckyesmaps)

The geography of U.S. agriculture (Bill Rankin, 2005, 2009). Click through for BIG.

Most Americans are familiar with George Washington’s role as the leader of the Continental army against the British forces in the American Revolution or as the first president of the United States, but many may be unaware of Washington’s lifelong association with geography and cartography.

vanishingnight:

From my ongoing Altered States Project, in which I’m making these abstract sculptures from an old atlas. I’m taking cues for the surface geometry from arbitrary divisions of states and counties; absurdly mocking the structure of a topographical map.

hilaryrakestraw:

Map showing the degree of
PUBLIC INDEBTEDNESS PER CAPITA
Contracted by State, County or Municipal Authority
At the close of the fiscal year nearest the census year (1870)

(via Radical Cartography)

by Paula Scher. [previously]

(Source: academiccouture)

Old stamps with maps

hatchettdesigns:

USA map created from various hounds tooth printed materials from old blazers, sports coats, skirts, and pants. Each state has been cut out by hand. The background is a canvas drop cloth. A vintage frame gives the upcycled art piece a finished look.

Size 28”w x 18”h (however, the sizes of vintage frames will vary slightly from this measurement)

Wholesale price: $75

Retail price: $135

(via artmaps)

prblog:

Maptastic #instagram #map #cincinnati (Taken with instagram)

“Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii” by Nam June Paik, 1995. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

maps-and-globes:

(via be-amani, blinkanditsover)

By Ron Arad

curiositycounts:

Artist John Holcomb reimagines states as food

hilaryrakestraw:

Map showing the proportion of deaths from
CONSUMPTION
to the deaths from all causes
compiled from the returns of mortality at the Ninth Census
of the United States 1870

(via Radical Cartography)