Embossed map made intangible by digitization.
From p. 96 of Light for the Blind: A History of the Origin and Success of Moon’s System of Reading (Embossed in 131 Languages) for the Blind by William Moon (1879). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized June 23, 2007.
Digitally severed maps.
Throughout N. W. Ayers & Son’s American Newspaper Annual and Directory (1920). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include University of Illinois library artifacts).
Invented topographies (plates left folded through digitization).
Throughout A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty … in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, v. 2, by James Cook, Charles Clerke, John Gore, and James King (1784). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized January 7, 2009.
Invented topographies (plates left folded through digitization).
Throughout A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798 by William Robert Broughton (1804). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 24, 2008.
Portions of a map crossing the digital gutter.
Submitted by Nelly Stavro, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 344-5 of The History of Herodotus, v. I, by Herodotus (1737).
“‘Den of Eden’ is all this folded map lets us see. A map, intended to point direction, is rendered useless in this medium.”
Submitted by Danny Ennis, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From page 229 of The City of Cincinnati: A Summary of Its Attractions, Advantages, Institutions and Internal Improvements by George E. Stevens (1869). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized February 8, 2008.
Address written into front endpapers matched with current address on Google Maps.
From the front matter of The Science and Practice of Cheese-Making by Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke and Charles Albert Publow (1909). (Map)
Digitally severed map of Australia.
From p. 1090 (?) of The Gallery of Geography, v.2, by Thomas Millner (1872).
Digitally severed maps, half in color and half in black and white. See also.
From various pages of 1865 to the Present: A United States History for High Schools by Boyd C. Shafer, et. al. (1965).
Writing in Latin and English; address written into front endpapers matched to current location in Google Maps.
From the front and back matter of The Pastoral Letter of the Late Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Boulogne in France by François-Joseph de Partz de Press (1795). (Map)
The impossible place created by leaving a map folded through digitization.
From the back matter of Chinese Turkestan, With Caravan and Rifle by Percy William Palmer Church (1901).
NYC without NYC: map left folded through digitization.
From p. 192 (?) of New York As It Is, ed. Edwin Williams (1833).
Map left folded through digitization.
The frontispiece to Semi-Centennial History of West Virginia by James Morton Callahan (1913).
Maps left folded through digitization.
From various pages of Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson (1881).
