Take a close look at the 1884 “bird’s eye” map of Montpelier and you see a tiny black steam engine, just emerged from a covered rail bridge over the Winooski, heading north. Another engine, three cars ...

The curator of the map collection at the Boston Public Library, Grim has organized a fascinating exhibit of rare 19th century "bird's-eye view" maps that provide remarkably accurate pictures of ...

“Although this technique was rare for earlier bird’s-eye views of Edinburgh, such as the Gordon of Rothiemay 1647 view, it had become much more common in the 19th century, and Sulman was known ...

A 19th-Century 3-D Bird’s-Eye Map of Mt. Fuji, ... This map, Miyazaki writes, might have appealed most of all to those people who, for reasons of poverty, physical limitation, ...

A charming birds-eye view map of San Francisco printed and distributed in 1884 depicts the area as it appeared before the discovery of gold. The only streets marked on the map are Montgomery ...

The curator of the map collection at the Boston Public Library, Grim has organized a fascinating exhibit of rare 19th century "bird's-eye view" maps that provide remarkably accurate pictures of ...