CARTOCRAVATIA

OCCASIONAL PAPER No.12

CALIFORNIA MAP SOCIETY

GALLERY OF TIES

 

Below are enlarged images from OP No. 12. Click here to return to the full Occasional Paper.                             

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Dr. Leonard Rothman's has collected map ties over many years.  He has provided these enlarged photographs of some of his collection for display on the California Map Society's website in conjunction with his Occasional Paper No. 12, Cartocravatia.  The picture is of Len in front of his custom map necktie cabinet that he built into one of the walls in his home.                                                                                                 © February 2013

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Figure 1  City streets.
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Figure 2  Left to right: Southeast Asia; Antarctica; South America; Africa.
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Figure 3  Left to right: U.S. National Weather Service Map; U.S. Nautical Chart of San Francisco Bay; Nautical 1559 Portuguese Map of Africa and the Americas.
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Figure 4  Many ties such as these astronomical ones have impressive detail.
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Figure 5  Left to right: Compass Rose; Aids to Mapmaking; Compass Rose; Aids to Navigation; Compass Rose.
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Figure 6   Left to right: Seeing the World with glasses; Save the Children; Globes and atlases; Save the Children; Geography Class and Teaching; Teaching the Tools of Traveling; Cruising the Globe.
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Figure 7  Left to right: London; Boston MTA; New York City Subways; Chicago Transit.
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Figure 8   Left to right: Moscow, Paris, Boston, Jerusalem, Constantinople, London, an ancient city.
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Figure 9   Left to right: Northwest Coast, USA; Alaska and the Arctic; Wolong Natural Reserve, China.
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Figure 10   Left to right: Era of Steam Trains and the Great Lakes; Balloons over the Americas; New Hampshire on the Move; Barnstorming over the Americas; Commercial Aircraft over the World (2).
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Figure 11   Left to right: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806); Over the USA by Air (1910); Transcontinental Railroad, Western States; Covered Wagons on the Oregon Trail; Journals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 12. Left to right: Hawaii; Texas; States of the U.S.; USA Flag; States of the USA; Texas; Florida; New Jersey. Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 13    Left to right: Columbus from Africa and the Caribbean; USA; World 1556; Civil War Battle Map (Virginia 1864); World (2); Aids to Navigation and Nova Scotia.
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Figure 14    Left to right: The Thirteen Colonies; Northern Pacific Railroads; Horse drawn and Horseless Carriages; World; The Travels of Mickey Mouse; World; Italy and Rome.
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Figure 15   Left to right: Globe of the Americas; The Moon; Solar System; Constellations; Celestial (Barlow 1790); Zodiac. Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 16  Left to right: San Francisco; Los Angeles; Boston; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta; New Orleans.  Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 17  Left to right: London and England; Boston and Paul Revere's Ride; Texas (2); Africa; Rome (1582); Travelers.  Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 18  Left to right: 1775 Paul Revere's Ride from Boston to Concord; North America; Baja California; Japan and Tokyo; Exploration; Americas; 17th Century Celestial Map.
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Figure 19  Left to right: America's Forests; Americas; World in 1862; World in 1830 (Johnson); New York City; World; Ironclad Warships, Virginia, 1862; Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks.
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Figure 20  Left to right: Straits of Anian; San Andreas Fault; Napa, CA, Vineyards; Santa Fe Trail; Route 66; Florida West Coast; Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. 
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Figure 21  Left to right: New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan; West Indies, Falkland Islands: Ireland; Atlantic coast of Europe; Medieval Sardinia.
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Figure 22   Left to right: Celestial Map, 17th Century; Planets (2); Celestial Map, 17th Century; Constellations (2). Click on image to enlarge.

 

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Figure 23  Left to right: 100 BCE Nile River and Egypt (Ortelius, 1580); Terra Santa (Blau 1629) of ~1200 BCE; Minorca 200 CE; Roman Peutinger Map 300 CE (1300s).
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