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Mark R. Stoneman

Historian, editor, and translator for hire (German to English). Longtime resident of Washington, DC, now in Conway, NH, as a caregiver (he/him).

  Maps

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    “Digitization Complete for World-Renowned Franco Novacco Map Collection,” www.newberry.org….

    Newly digitized map collection makes over 750 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps available online.

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    Europe's Changing Map in 1939 (Photo)

    Black and white photo: Young, dark-haired, white woman in short-sleeved dress, squatting, knees together, left hand in lap, right elbow on knee with right hand on cheek. She is looking at a giant map on the floor, which she is standing on.

    European situation spoils map on Post Office department floor. Washington, D.C., April 12. The huge map on the floor of the Post Office Department here is all out of kilter these days due to the aggression in Europe. Many are the embarrassing questions being asked officials about when Mr. Farley is going to do something about Ethiopia, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The answer so far has been - nothing. Probably the Post Office is waiting to see what will happen next on the continent. Miss Edna Strain is inspecting the damage done by the ambitious dictators. 4-12-39

    Image and caption: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016875385/.

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    Large map in background with a man and a woman in front of it.

    This TV map of the world as viewed from the North Pole looking down in all directions caught my eye. Screenshot (in color) from “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”, season 2, episode 1 (1965).

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    'Colonizability'

    The map looks at the regions in terms of how healthy they are for the 'European races', including 'unhealthy but exploitable areas.

    This 1899 map's legend makes sense within a late-nineteenth-century imperialist framework, and the brutality of its seemingly objectively portrayed vision is unmistakable. Take a look at a high resolution scan from The New York Public Library Digital Collections.