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Uncharted Territories – February 27, 2017

"'Yes, no doubt about it, the map ends at this juncture.' Windza sat down. 'So what do we do now, turn back?'" —A. C. Wright, The Stone

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#map

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 29, 2017

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The endpapers to The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #vintage map #map #1920s #endpapers #illustration #imaginary place

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 9, 2017

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You've heard that "the face of Illinois … is becoming increasingly Latino" (Primeros Pasos, 2013). Here's what it used to look like.

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#map #vintage postcard #weird map #illinois #map face #postcard

Forgotten Wisdom – December 31, 2016

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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The Motor Points on the Arm as a Chart of the Heavens

Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.

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#microcosm #as above so below #heavens #motor points #physiology #sky map

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 20, 2016

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From Die Muskete, 1919.

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#vintage illustration #map #1900s #illustration #gorbachev #birthmark

Uncharted Territories – December 16, 2016

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"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
—Herman Melville

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Uncharted Territories – November 10, 2016

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Here's a blank map of the moon, from The Lunar World by Josiah Crampton, 1853.

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#moon #blank map

This May Surprise You – October 9, 2016

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You've heard that Michigan is the "Mitten State," and here is revealed the giant hand inside that mitten. From 1950.

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#giant hand #map #hand #strange map #vintage postcard #michigan #mitten state #postcard

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 5, 2016

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You've heard that anything can be erotic, and here's how someone saw the Panama Canal as a lesbian kiss. From 1923.

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#map #1920s #vintage postcard #panama canal #lesbian kiss #polymorphous perversity #postcard

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 9, 2016

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Here's a leaf map of Peloponnesus, from English Illustrated, 1889.

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#vintage illustration #vintage map #greece #map #weird map #Peloponnesus #leaf map #illustration #1880s

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 14, 2016

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From Die Jobsiade by Karl Arnold Kortum, 1900.

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#vintage illustration #map #mapping #pathways #1900s #illustration

This May Surprise You – May 30, 2016

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You've seen paisleys with geometric central elements. These are armed citadels. Our exemplifying collage shows the stronghold Fort Independence on the paisley Castle Island, Boston Harbor.

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#vintage illustration #castle #map #paisley #fortress #stronghold #illustration

This May Surprise You – May 19, 2016

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You've heard of the four corners of the earth, but there are actually a few more corners than that, as we see in this map from The New Art of Memory by Gregor von Feinaigle, 1813. Recall that we previously saw how the four corners of the world technically meet at the center.

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#vintage map #map #flat earth #four corners #old map

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 16, 2016

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"Star maps," from Scientific American, 1894.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #stars #star map #1890s #illustration #art

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 29, 2016

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The Michigan mitten is knitted by bees, as we learn in The Bee-Keeper's Review, 1907.

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#vintage illustration #bees #strange map #1900s #michigan #mitten state #illustration

This May Surprise You – March 14, 2016

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You've heard that Australia is upside down. Even if the earth isn't a globe, Australia is still upside down, as proven by this flat earth map from 1893. Here's a larger view of the map over at Wikimedia.

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#vintage map #map #flat earth #australia is upside down

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 14, 2016

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From European Light-House Systems by George Henry Elliot, 1875.

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#vintage illustration #map #lighthouse #venn diagram #cornwall #english lighthouses #1870s #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 13, 2016

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From Memoria Philosophica by J. R. Gayton, 1826.

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#vintage illustration #vintage map #map #ireland #strange map #great britain #whimsical map #illustration #art #1820s

This May Surprise You – January 31, 2016

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We are pleased to have verified this map from Descriptive Geography by Samuel Brook, 1891. "Most of England is a sea of blue," confirms Rhodi Evans in 2015.

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