The Old Map Gallery

12/03/2021

Just sent out a email of our newest offerings including gifts for those hard to buy for on your list. Did you get it?

If not, we'd love to have you visit our new website and sign up to get future mailings..... Will post the link in comments..

10/22/2021

The Old Map Gallery has always had great peers, sister businesses that were dynamic, local & staffed with people that are knowledgeable & kind.We're grateful to announce one of our faves:West Side Books is now offering a selection of our antique and vintage maps. West Side Books

09/30/2021

A revolution in satellites and a boom for communication across Australia, even in the most rural outback. Geostationary satellites would connect a region unlike before.

09/27/2021

For us late bloomers. It wasn't until after his career in greetings cards was over that he began to make the maps that would make him famous. Here's to Ernest Dudley Chase.

09/20/2021

Leaf peeping. Right now would be a great time to retrace the "Grand Tour" that this map advertised in 1921. Pretty year round, but especially now.

09/16/2021

A 1980's advertising map for Hollywood, noting some of the points of interest and with the mystique and romance of Bogie and Bacall still lingering.

09/14/2021

In Diné (Navajo) tradition the holy people asked the Spider Woman to instruct the Diné on how to weave. After gathering and preparation she did just that. Here are just some of the varieties of what she taught and the regions they come from.

09/13/2021

A simple visual language communicating a wealth about complex terrain. No key is really necessary, it's pretty clear. From Guy Harold Smith in 1935

09/10/2021

The Aztec saw themselves tied to our solar system long ago. They knew the cycles of Mars, Venus and Mercury and could predict eclipses on earth. It's an amazing stream of knowledge that grew indigenously in the Americas, tying together time and place.

09/09/2021

"Therefore we believe air is the dominant realm of transportation"-"Air is much larger than all waters and lands combined..." An ad map from American Airlines that hints at some profound issues of geographic connections in the air age.

09/05/2021

Innovative projections aren't just a 20th century thing. Here, showing the route of Magellan around the world from 1702, a favorite from Scherer.

09/03/2021

Maps as a means to progress and understand correlations in mathematics...

Mathematicians try to figure out when problems can be solved using current knowledge — and when they have to chart a new path instead.