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The postal road map hints at population density, data not readily available from other types of sources. On top of density, it also captures the shape of population distribution within a given region (This claim is not based on any serious research;…

Hand Drawn Map of Volga Drainage Basin

Floating hospital at Nizhny Novgorod, on the Volga, the cholera in Russia, engraving from The Illustrated London News, No 2787, September 17, 1892.

The Crimea Map is full of curiosities, both cartographic and historical. In class, we marked it up with questions. Your job now is to select one of the unanswered questions, conduct research, and compose an answer. Your answer should be about 300…

Choose a map from the Chorographic Sketchbook of Siberia. The candidate sheets are collected here. You might want to page through them all and if you want to go through the whole Sketchbook, the Harvard Library copy is here.Imagine that this map is…