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If you’ve ever wished your favorite fictional universe was real, a new @HarvardMapColl exhibition is for you. “From Academieland to Zelda” explores fictional maps from movies, books, video games, and more. Come check it out in-person: buff.ly/3X1M6zn
The Harvard Map Collection is hiring a Map Librarian. If you enjoy teaching and helping with patron research, check out the job description: bit.ly/HMCMapLibrarianJob
ALT large map of the county with townships outlined in yellow, green, and red. Images of major buildings appear in the corners as well as insets of other areas in the county
ALT lushly colored map of St. Petersburg with a tapestry drawn above to show the river inland, a large cartouche in the upper right showing historical and mythological figures, and an inset with the fortified island
The #NileRiverDelta, a detail from a large (182 x 110 cm.) multi-sheet 1743 #map by Richard Pococke of #Egypt, which was "Recently Subjected to His Faithful Eyes, Illustrated by His Travels: Adapted to the Norm of Ancient as well as Modern Choreography." #HarvardLibrary
ALT Image of a portion of a map of Egypt showing the Nile River Delta from Lake Moeris in the south to the Mediterranean Sea, with the River colored dark green and the Lake and Sea a lighter green.
A chart by John Seller from his Atlas Maritimus (circa 1675) depicting all the "narrow seas" that surround the British Isles, along with a sea monster riding merman (Neptune?) hoisting the King's Colours on his bident. #maps#HarvardLibrary
ALT Image of a nautical chart (titled "A Chart of Ye Narrow Seas") with rhumb lines and oriented with north to the right, showing Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and a bit of the French coast along the English Channel. Also, with an ornate compass rose at the top right of the sheet and a title cartouche (with many aquatic denizens surrounding it) in the lower right. The flag bearing merman is at the top left of the sheet.
The JCB Library's short (remote or residential) and long-term (residential) research fellowships are key to the intellectual community we want to support. Let us know if we can help support your work! Applications due Jan 9 and available here: jcblibrary.org/fellowships/o…
Erwin Raisz's "United States and Canada - Physiography" with 6 colors showing different kinds of rock and his signature pictorial method for illustrating landforms #HarvardLibrary#maps
ALT Map of the United States and lower Canada with colors showing the major rock types, with green and yellow sharing the inner continent and pictorial representations of plateaus, hills, mountains, mesas, cuestas, folded mountains, basin ridges, volcano, sand, sinks, moraines, and drumlins
"Spatial Pattern of Political Behavior; #Berlin, #Germany" in the municipal elections of 20 Oct 1946 from a 1947 report on German Elections by the Military Governor of the US Zone #HarvardLibrary
ALT 5 maps on one sheet slowing voting results in Berlin with stark differences between the East and West