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Uncharted Territories – February 28, 2015

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Here's a blank map from Provincial and State Papers (New Hampshire), 1867.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – January 10, 2015

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Where the Morse Code is Buried, from St. Nicholas magazine. In lieu of flowers . . .

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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 #buried treasure #map #illustration #morse code #treasure map #x marks the spot #pirate map

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – December 16, 2014

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We designed this plate with a vintage map of Saint Augustine, Florida, complete with mischievous mermaid. Our map is meticulously accurate, but (forbid!) not in a literal way. Though you can navigate by it, it’s not to what la-di-da cartographers would call "scale."

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Restoring the Lost Sense – November 11, 2014

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An illustration from Napoléon et Son Temps by Roger Peyre (1896).

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#vintage map #map #1890s #weird map

Uncharted Territories – October 16, 2014

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Here's a blank map of the White Sea, from This Giddy Globe by Peter Simple and illustrated by Oliver Herford, 1919. For a most unique collection of unmappable places, see The Carte Blanche Atlas: 75 Uncharted Territories for Off-the-Beaten-Pathfinders. (Thanks, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt!)

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#vintage illustration #blank map #illustration #white sea #arctic ocean #unmappable #off the map

Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? – February 26, 2014

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We enjoyed mapping out a fun Jonathan Caws-Elwitt bit.

The caption reads:
"Really?? How did you arrive at that conclusion?"
"Well, I was coming from Premise Point, so I took Logic Boulevard and then made a sharp deduction. Then I went straight on Reasoning Avenue until I came to another clearly marked deduction. But if you're coming from Hypothesis Heights, you can also get there via the Experience Loop: just follow it around the perimeter of Empirical Square for a while, then take the first right induction after your evidence tank reads 'full.'" —Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

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This May Surprise You – February 21, 2014

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Before the discovery of continental drift, geologists elegantly explained transoceanic similarities of life by crediting giant monkeys. Our illustration is from The Star of the Sea: A Historical Novel by N. Gregor, 1897.

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#vintage illustration #monkey #map #1890s #giant monkey #illustration

Forgotten Wisdom – July 5, 2013

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt explains: "Hope asserts in passing that 'there are generally two ways anywhere'—which might be a dull observation if it were strictly a metaphor, but which in context he means literally (if perhaps not only literally). So, yes, there are generally not three, not one, but exactly two ways to get from a given point A to a given point B on the map" (personal correspondence, May 1, 2013).

The Anthony Hope quotation appears in Frivolous Cupid.

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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#vintage illustration #map #illustration #a to b #shortest distance between two points

Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? – January 28, 2013

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Years ago we quipped that John Venn traveled in many circles.

But as it's been too long since our last Venn joke, here's a new one:

John Venn's favorite way to waste time was running in circles.

(One might think these jokes write themselves, but the process is protracted and requires protractors.)

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Source and massive version here.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – November 15, 2012

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An illustration from a 1902 edition of Vaught's Practical Character Reader. The caption reads: "The Psychological Railway." (Thanks, Gordon!)

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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #map #psychology #diagram #railway

Uncharted Territories – April 6, 2011

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"On the map missing data stare out as a blank, often risking giving a misleading impression."
—John Langton & Robert John Morris, Atlas of industrializing Britain 1780-1914

Photo by wirehead2501.

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Uncharted Territories – March 9, 2011

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"Why didn't you tell me in the map room there was a map missing?"
—Gwyn Cready, Aching for Always (2010)

(This delightful snippet is scanned from Book Sales of 1895.)

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Your Ship Will Come In – February 25, 2011

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“Just keep up a brave heart, and your ship will come sailing in.” —Tim Kantor

* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.

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#map #vintage postcard #bodensee

Uncharted Territories – September 12, 2010

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"To penetrate as far as possible into the great white area on Dawson's map, south of the Kananaskis Lakes, marked with the magic word 'Unexplored,' that most fascinating and suggestive of all names to any lover of the wilderness."
—Canadian Alpine Journal

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Photo by drain.

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Uncharted Territories – August 25, 2010

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A blank map from James Whale's classic film The Old Dark House:

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A flooded road in Wales; a map with running ink.

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Uncharted Territories – June 22, 2010

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75 uncharted territories for off-the-beaten-pathfinders.

Thanks to the Wacky Web Sites blog, who covered our atlas of blank maps:

According to webmaster Craig Conley, there are fundamental differences between a blank page and a blank map. A blank page is empty, whereas a blank map suggests space and orientation and is still designed by a cartographer. Conley takes this one step further, presenting blank maps suggested by history, folklore, or literature such as a landscape purified by snowfall, the unknown path Cleopatra must have taken after Actium, or what Babel looked like before it was built.

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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory – June 3, 2010

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Employing a concave mirror to turn a map into a globe, Prof. Oddfellow makes contact with his inverted homunculus.

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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt quips:

The homunculus appears inverted to us because it lives south of the equator.

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Forgotten Wisdom – May 31, 2010

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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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#map