Instruction pamphlet explaining the details of the ZEISS Standard N2 #Mirror #Stereoscope : Technical data, Technical Hints, Purpose of Instrument, Application, Use, Order Data. archive.org/details/WCWd... #CarlZeiss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ze... #ZEISS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss_(...

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories." niche-canada.org/2025/09/26/a... #envhist #archives

.. draft display ordering for October 6th, 2025 12 cubes 24"x24" image/collage with 11"x17" information (bios/selected references and related material) .. reflecting on Nov 2024 Geography Awareness Week "eleven historical windows" display unfolding on map cabinets a week prior tinyurl.com/9jkrj9zj

next display drops Oct 6th…

1987 revision of Mundy Map Co. Western Canada #Railway #map tinyurl.com/4kb48jkm originally published in 1955. This explains why the 4 sheets of the Mundy 1955 map were mounted on foam core. So the #cartographer (G.A. Lester) could work off of it. #WCWMC also has a b/w 1923 copy tinyurl.com/4kb48jkm

Not to be outdone by UBC's #Isodemographic #Map of Canada archive.org/details/WCWd... Queen's University, Dept. of Geography (compilation and design by R. Eastman, B. Nelson and G. Shields.) published the Isodemographic Map of North America, 1975-1976 archive.org/details/WCWd...

#cartogram classic #Isodemographic #Map of Canada archive.org/details/WCWd... Evident in the pin holes & damaged edges this map was in heavy use through the years. More info. in the Isodemographic map of Canada #Geographical Paper No. 50 by L. Skoda, & J. C. Robertson archive.org/details/3176...

cast in a golden light no dress rehearsal - the hip Métis Trade Routes of the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia) 1806-1886. Lisa Shepherd & Kristi Bridgeman tinyurl.com/rprcz9n3 First Nations Stampede A guide to First Nations history at the Calgary Stampede. Adrian Stimson tinyurl.com/4ev5aa24

re·read Maps... are political documents... simultaneously fluid & static. Both artistic & documentary. They are reflections of the relationship between space and identity, of spatiality. Given these characteristics & this complexity, they offer a great deal of conceptual material for an artist.

Great map covers, infographics/photos/illustrations via the Lynch Annual Report Collection. ~ 16,000 annual reports of (mostly) Canadian businesses (1935-2011). archive.org/details/larc The metadata is simple (company name, year, ect.) yet some great finds when searching "search text contents"

#coalfield #colours #faults mixing #map folds South Lancashire Coalfield: contour plan of the #Trencherbonie Mine and Ashton Black Mine by George Hickling. Two inches to one mile. October 1924. archive.org/details/WCWd...

Garnet Basque's "British Columbia ghost town atlas", 1982. Internet Archive (Borrow) tinyurl.com/3c5y366p B.C. Map 5 notes the Lost Gold Bars Of Camp McKinney More info by Garnet Basque www.ghosttownsusa.com/bttales7.htm "Camp McKinney is deserted now. Even the ghosts have gone."

journaling past.. Graduate Students Dept. of Geography University of Alberta. "The Albertan geographer" 1965 - 1987. Not online! Copyright varies by issue & article. Determined using : Material type: Literary, dramatic/musical work tinyurl.com/sm3weaj7 #Spatial as literary, dramatic & musical!

Alberta Writers' Guild [literary map] by Lillian Wonders and Kim Davis. (1983). Created for the National Book Festival. archive.org/details/WCWd... More on Lillian Paradise Johnson Wonders (1925-2023) can be found here: tinyurl.com/2cvc6vcx

Happy to share the release of the 2nd edition of Mapping, Society, and Technology. Props to @smmanson.bsky.social for wranging multiple of us to update it. It's a free text suitable for many introductory GIS courses, hosted at UMN Libraries. open.lib.umn.edu/mapping/ #gischat

#WorldElephantDay Constance Brown #ElephantMapProject For more info/links: tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #WCWMC

The #sidewalk #sheds of #Willingdon Ave. #Burnaby #VanCity and also #StillCreek

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, 1977 1:5000 #Orthophoto + #Contours + #Cadastral image showing bridge shadows on the North Saskatchewan River, including the old railway bridge (bottom). Current Google Earth image shows only the footings/piers of old railway bridge #BridgeShadows #GhostedBridges

Taber, Alberta, 1985 1:5000 #Orthophoto + #Contours + #Cadastral image Shows abandoned Sky-Vue Drive-In which was closed after a fire gutted the projection/concession building on April 5, 1975. cinematreasures.org/theaters/62116 Sowings advertised in the Taber Times tinyurl.com/mt26v6br

"The Cloud Is Not Above Us" by @designinf.bsky.social PhD student David Mahoney - "When digital systems are abstracted from place, they become invisible. We lose sight of the true cost of their convenience: the emissions... the land consumed... the communities they displace or disadvantage"

New? #DavidRumseyMapCollection adds AI-Generated Summary to the MEDIA INFORMATION section. Not sure if AI is an in-house adaption drawing together Rumsey metadata. Or an outside source pulling info. from the web (e.g. the detail you find on map auction/sellers webpages) tinyurl.com/4pafucy4

Air Canada routes (1967). archive.org/details/WCWd... Some related Air Canada materials on IA archive.org/search?query... Including an Air Canada 1963 EXPO 67 "Model" Postcard archive.org/details/air-...

On a run this am noticed rezoning info. for the old Rossdale Brewery Current zone: Direct Control Zone Proposed zones: Direct Control Zone DC, River Valley Zone (A), Parks and Services Zone (PS) tinyurl.com/5f26d6n2 Not sure of all the uses after May 1913 but 41 years later in April 1954...

📚 The Institute of Governmental Studies Library at @UCBerkeley has digitized over 5,000 local government documents from California, preserving rare reports & essential records for researchers & the public. Learn more ➡️ archive.org/details/igsc... 🧵 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Outfall Numeric Conspiracy... Always amused when a unique attribute noted on signage at ground level (1:1) is not included in the attribute data? Example: #Edmonton #Yeg #OutFalls (storm drainage) into the North Saskatchewan River #OpenData tinyurl.com/3dc87pcz

#Tilde in a #VerbalScale alert SCALE ~ 1 FT.= 80 FT. Who wants to ratio this ~ about? Also - Quick Sand! Log Salt Well No. I. Drilled by AB Government Fort McMurray [1947] archive.org/details/WCWd... #VerbalScale tinyurl.com/a5k8vwn6 #Tilde en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde #AAPG #SaltWell #FortMcMurray

Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday (1902), a wonderfully eclectic and generously illustrated treatise on the sundial: http://buff.ly/2muKH2C

At the expense of Sheep, Nose, Copton creeks & Muddywater, Jackpine, Muskeg rivers a "Pink Card" inset was added to the 1957 Alberta highway map. archive.org/details/972_... The one, and only, time is was done. If you like Official Alberta Road maps #WCWMC has swath... archive.org/details/wcw_...

#TrueScale #TerraCotta St. Boniface terms (OCR) from the "Standard Key of signs (1959) tinyurl.com/4ww5bh93 arranged around the St. Boniface Cathedral. tinyurl.com/bp5faveu #FireInsurancePlans

The map collection “spoke so softly in accordance to the growing of the dim” * An iridescent joy, soon to be washed out in an overburdened flash of fluorescents. * #TragicallyHip – Three Pistols #wcwmc

Reference questions - the best part of the profession. A researcher from Saskatchewan wants to take a look at a 1745 Russian atlas showing the Russian Empire and adjacent territories - that is not colour highlighted like the David Rumsey version: tinyurl.com/mtej9kkw #WCWMC has the b/w version.

On the lookout for any older illustrated copies of #MobyDick that depict the thoroughly #besmoked oil-painting. Most ill. I have seen for Chapter 3 The Spouter-Inn (as one would expect) relate to Ishmael meeting Queequeg for the first time. Though Rockwell Kent shows Ishmael entering the inn.

#Etymology. Usually appears at the end of Moby Dick, before #Extracts (supplied by a sub-sub-Librarian). In a 1930 Modern Library ed. (illustrated by Rockwell Kent) it appears at the start inc. an illustration. "He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality."

#MapReferanceQuestion Looking up "Wakash Nation" via the #DavidRumseyMapCollection search "text on maps" feature. www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet... More information on the "Guide to Searching and Annotating Text on Maps" can be found here: machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/ #mapKurator

By order of council 26 #erratics laid-long the path's edge to prevent a summer and winter right of passage - doing donuts in the lee of the High-Level Bridge #Yeg #doughnuts #donut en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnu...

A hockey stick in height, and a pizza peel wide while idling at 600dpi we pushed the pleat of Internet Archive on this 1923 map of Alberta. Click the link archive.org/details/WCWd... and enjoy a little zoom & pan. #WriteMapsDrawWords

Searched #DavidRumseyMapCollection for sea turtle & yielded 2 maps unrelated to sea turtles. This one I had not seen before titled Achievements sets no time of place to offer its rewards; Adventures never known before the present day affords! Lawrence Hawthorne tinyurl.com/mr33zuxe #Zeppelins #Norge

World Sea Turtle Day. Was curious what maps #wcwmc has relating to sea turtles. Unfortunately, just a couple centered on Galapagos showing the Green Sea Turtle. However, there is the great Online Map & Sea Turtle Database if one wishes to dig a little deeper www.seaturtlestatus.org/online-map-d...

#Kaleidospatial #mapcabinet #wunderkammers Great time in Kingston ON @ #ACMLA #Carto2025 acmla-acacc.ca/carto2025/ Now on vintage #ViaRail hauling to #Pearson & ideally on-time into #Edmonton to get back to crafting spatial narratives.

such an amazing slice of writing… The Map as biography: thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six-inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot by J.B. Harley (1987) tinyurl.com/5mzr3yux

National Black Bear Day Captions from a series of Alberta Dept. of Lands and Forests publications in the 1970/80s. archive.org/search?query... Here is the Black Bear depicted in the "Large carnivores of Alberta" map/facts sheet. archive.org/details/WCWd... #NationalBlackBearDay

McMaster University has a very informative write up about WWII Beach Gradient Profiles library.mcmaster.ca/wwii-beach-g... #DDay #McMasterUniversity

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Pauline Baynes #FantasyMaps More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC Fittingly the last Map a-day-in May is located in the last drawer (after Antarctic) of the collection labeled Universe Imaginary Places Miscellaneous

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Quilt/Textile Maps #Cartography #Mapping #QuiltMaps #TextileMaps #HeatherShillinglaw #ValerieGoodwin More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC bsky.app/search?q=map... bsky.app/search?q=map...

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Tactile Braille Mapping & Escape and Evasion Maps #Cartography #Mapping #EscapeMaps #EvasionMaps #TactileMaps More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #MapDayMay25 William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC More info in the alt text.

"The authors highlight how undergrad students were invited to engage with their library’s collection management practices, discuss examples of student-curated collections ... and consider how the initiative informs current and future possibilities for student involvement in library work"

The unique linguistic maps from our Map collection by Slavist Pavel J. Šafařík have been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. 🗺️📜 Out of 122 nominations, only 74 made the cut – including this remarkable piece of Czech scholarship. Congratulations! More info 👉 1url.cz/QJJb6

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Geographic Information Systems #MapDayMay25 This post originally was to focus on GIS. It became apparent that the term GIS is too narrow to capture all of the fascinating & courageous research/visualization work going in the spatial fields. 1/3

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Tanya Atwater Geophysicist who played a pivotal role in transforming understanding of Earth's surface during the Tectonic Revolution of the 1960s. More info #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/y5cv3vuz #TanyaAtwater #TectonicRevolution #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC