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The end of the penny in 2025? There are intentions from the government to stop producing pennies, sparking excitement in the coin collecting community.
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I love the look of old maps, charts and documents — they were produced with so much more artistry and love than their modern counterparts. Cartography has become a highly technical, standardised and accurate science but has lost the romance and mystery of the maps of old — here be dragons!
Diese interessante Karte eines unbekannten Künstlers von 1581 zeigt in etwa die Ecke, die ich im näheren Umfeld von Pirna als Heimat definieren würde: das Elbsandsteingebirge sowie Teile des Erzgebirges, der Lausitz, von Nordböhmen und das Umfeld von Meissen.
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Section of a historical map from 1581 showing part of Saxony around Dresden, Meissen, Pirna and Bautzen as well as part of northern Bohemia
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Experimenting some more with the 'pool of light' effect — it works well with the naturally rich tone of the leather and old maps. Processed with a touch of vintage, in Snapseed.
This map dates back to 1610 and magnifies the town I call home.
For The Smile on Saturday group - theme Lit By Candlelight
I wanted to try something different today and create a photo that looks like it belongs to another time. I used an old map, a pocket watch, two speedlights, and a light cone from @vflatworld to create this effect.
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Travel, in the modern age has, sadly, lost much of the romance and spirit of adventure that it had even 50 years ago. It's certainly a lot more practical (and safe) these days but the magic's been lost somewhere along the way.
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A plucky buccaneer has gathered together his last few doubloons and is plotting his next adventure...
... in old forgotten walls. And ... she seems to have found something.... an old map. What will it be?
TOP SECRET !!! *wink*
For a change, I once again dedicated myself to a previous hobby.
3D poser and rendering of scenes and people as illustrations. I made renderings before the photography took possession of me ...
There are many details, so I've added a number of Flickr Notes to explain how things have changed. Even after all these years, some of the objects still exist, although most have been replaced and are long forgotten.
I share this for Educational intent- as well as for my love and appreciation for old Maps.
Nuremberg map of Mexico City (Cortes’ Map of Tenochtitlan)
From Analú María López, the Newberry's Ayer Indigenous Studies Librarian:
This hand-colored map of the Mexica capital, Tenochtitlan or Mexico City, was published with the first Latin edition of Hernán Cortés’ second letter, dated October 30, 1520, to Charles V, the King of Spain.
The map is based on the eyewitness account of Cortés depicting the Mexica capital Temixlitan [Tenochtitlan] in Lake Texcoco.
Features depicted include the temple of Teocalli in the center, the Palace of Montezuma, houses, canals, causeways, and Indigenous people paddling canoes.
Like many European maps of the time,
this map uses a conventional rendering of buildings—
many of them appearing as turreted castles—to signify towns. However,
other features of the map (including the details of the temple district at the center of Tenochtitlan) indicate that Indigenous people may have had a hand in its creation.
To the left of the map of Tenochtitlan
is a view of the Gulf of Mexico, including Florida,
the Yucatán peninsula depicted as an island,
and the Gulf coast of the present-day United States.
Any manuscript maps used to create this woodcut are lost, as is the woodcut block itself.
Dozens of copies of the 1524 publication survive
but only a few around the world were hand-colored around the date of publication.
The original map is just one of many Spanish colonial cartographic examples within the American Indian and Indigenous Studies collection at the Newberry and was purchased for the collection from a bookdealer in 1955.
A plucky buccaneer has gathered together his last few doubloons and is plotting his next adventure...
Today, you can find all these prints scotched-taped to the wall as scans here on Flickr in my "Vintage New York" album.
While uploading, I noticed the the High School related papers and homework assignments laying on the desk. Also, one of the speakers of my first stereo system at the left of the view.
There's a large stack of vintage 1920s and 1930s National Geographics on the right side of my desk.
120 in 2020
4. Antique.
I found this old map of Buckinghamshire in the antiques shop in Wendover over 30 years ago.
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This extremely detailed map of Amsterdam by Van Berckenrode, printed from 9 different plates, is in my opinion the most beautiful map of the city ever made.
Collection Amsterdam City Archive
An ancient map of a much smaller Dublin as photographed by Lawrence. The north side appears to have been the poor relation even back then.
With thanks to today's contributors, and following from a previous posting of the original image on our other Flickr stream we know that while Lawrence photographed this map in the late 19th or early 20th century, it was drawn by James Malton in the 1780s or 90s, and based on an earlier survey by John Speed in 1610.
Malton (1761–1803) is perhaps best known for his "Views of Dublin", but what Lawrence captured here was a folio Malton created that was included in the book "History of the City of Dublin: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time"....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_03374
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Not to mention all the rail yards which used to exist along the Hudson River in the Harsimus neighborhood. Oh, yes... also the Sewage Disposal facility right where the "Grove of Remembrance" exists in Liberty State Park today.
I've placed a number of Flickr notes on this aerial view of Jersey City to provide more details. Scroll over them and click on their links to view related photos from my collection. Enjoy!
The theme for week 27 in the group 52 weeks of pix 2013 is The Earth.
I had various ideas for this week's theme but just a couple of hours ago, as the deadline approached, I realized that I had these book ends with an old globe on them. I figured that it would fit the theme nicely and that it is perhaps there only chance to be photographed! ;-)
So here is my submission for this week. Hope you like it.
I chose to show a map of Africa because right now I am reading a novel titled King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild.
It is an engrossing and powerful novel about how the Belgian King Leopold II's "colonization" of the Congo. According to the author, Adam Hochschild, there was an estimated ten million Congolese deaths during Leopold's colonization process.
R. L. Seale's Barbados rum. The bottle is modeled from the days in the Seventeenth Century when glass was hand blown.
Maritimers have a deep connection to rum. Throughout the days of tall ships and schooners, they sailed the waters of the West Indies and beyond, laden with salt fish and lumber and did a healthy trade, until steamships did their demise.
Fishing float pictured, was found on Martinique Beach, Nova
Scotia, in the early 1980's.
An extract from the 'First" edition of the One-Inch map, known as the Ordnance Survey, and published in 1805 by Lt. Col. Mudge at the Tower of London where it was printed by Ramshaw by copper plate. This shows the portions of Essex that now comprise much of east London.
Birchfield Road has all but disappeared since this photo was taken. As a result it's just about impossible to show the same view in the present day. As we've seen over the last few years, Birmingham had a huge number of these small back street garages, nearly all of which have disappeared. This place was no exception given even the road it was on is no longer there. It's a shame oldmaps is no longer available to refer to, that, I recall, did show the original Birchfield Road. All that's left now is a small cul-de-sac called Birchfield Gardens.