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Map showing 1892 cholera distribution in cases per 100,000.

This map, “The ‘Grand Migration’ 1880-1914,” is a visual representation of the mass migration of East European Jews to various areas of the world between the years 1880 and 1914.

The map features blue arrows of varying thicknesses connecting the…

This is a map created by Captain Theodor Seuss Geisel of the U.S. Army Special Service Division for all personal in the Army Orientation Course to show the areas in the world that suffer from high levels of malaria. It depicts intensity levels from…

Map depicts the routes and years that the "Black Death" also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. ... The plague created religious, social and economic…

While many of the most compelling maps of the rail system in Russia in the late 19th century are aspirational and show many planned routes that would not ultimately be built (and if built would be built differently), this provides a simple view of…

This map was created in St. Petersburg on or about 1900 for a French audience, with a possible goal of showing the growing rail networks off to Western European audiences. It differentiates the rail lines by their dates of completion, as well as…

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

This map of Asiatic Russia tells the story of Russia's vast ethnic diversity. Just saying that the Russian Empire was diverse would be an understatement. Because of Russia's strategic location between Europe and Asia, it has come in contact with a…