Browse Items (173 total)

Map illustrating the Russian postal routes across its entire territory. Given the size of the Russian empire in 1842, this large-scale map is notable for its elaborate details on geography, distances, and villages.

The map “Section 9 Henze’s Urde-Globus” is one of 24 globe gores printed on thin paper. According to the David Rumsey Collection, between 1885 ad 1890 the magazines included segments for a German terrestrial globe, which–when collected in their…

Discussing Cholera and Russia's Rivers