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    New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free To Download And Use(Post)

    Our friends at the New York Public Library have made a proclamation.  New York Public Library Map Collection Release Announcement ...

    Elephants On The Brooklyn Bridge(Post)

    It was an audacious project from the start. Fourteen years in the building, the Brooklyn Bridge easily catapulted itself into the ranks of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial Age. The Bridge was a ...

    Susan Glaspell and Alison’s House(Post)

    News of the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for drama elated the playwright, infuriated the theater critics, and surprised everyone. Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell beat out plays by such greats as Maxwell Ande ...

    Baseball's Bloomer Girls(Post)

    You have probably seen the movie “A League of their Own” starring Madonna and Geena Davis.  Women’s baseball teams, belonging to the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBL) brought the gam ...

    States Helping States. It Has Happened Before.(Post)

    In response to the medical disaster unfolding in New York, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California sent ventilators. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team, sent 300 ...

    “A Fortress Besieged By An Invading Army”: The Astor Place Riot(Post)

    On the evening of May 10, 1849, the British Shakespearean actor William Charles Macready, playing Macbeth, stepped onto the stage of the palatial Astor Place Opera House in lower Manhattan. Built ...

    Read All About It! In Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper(Post)

    Whereas the Internet and cable television are the ways most receive their news today, in 1855 Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News published its first issue with a run of only 30 copies. It was an inaus ...

    Edward Penfield And The American Poster(Post)

    Edward Penfield’s first poster for Harper’s in 1893 shows a man in a green coat absorbed in reading a magazine while being splashed by raindrops; the display type accompanying the figure is as ma ...

    It Came From Above: A Visual History of Astronomy(Post)

     By Leah Dearborn When NASA's New Horizons probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, it provided hundreds of new images of the far corners of the solar system.  Artists, however, have been creati ...

    The Gold Rush’s Hazy Grays(Post)

    John W. Marshall inadvertently made — and changed — history on January 24, 1848, when the carpenter found bits of gold at entrepreneur John Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The men tried to keep ...

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    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map(Page)

    Origins of the Historic Bird's Eye View Map Source: "The Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada", 2 nd ed, John R. Hebert, rev. by Patrick E Dempsey, 1984, Library of ...

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