Every month, Untapped Cities Insiders get to go behind-the-scenes at some of New York City’s most unique locations and meet the experts behind them. This week, Insiders got an in-depth look at the ...
The map seemed to be an unbelievable find, an unknown fifth original of the rarest of documents, a vision of the world, circa 1507, by famed German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. It features 12 ...
A “priceless” rare map of Australia that was understood to be lost forever has been discovered in an attic and returned to its permanent home. Unearthed in 2010 in storage in Sweden where it spent ...
James MacDougald believes he has rewritten Florida history and added further intrigue to the early story of the Tampa Bay area. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is considered the first successful ...
Sometimes the past holds secrets waiting to be rediscovered. Using a 110-year-old map, we tracked down a hidden cache of ...
A new exhibit, “Mapping Texas: From Frontier to the Lone Star State,” is on display at the Witte Museum, featuring more than 40 original maps and documents from collections of the Witte, Texas General ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Two rare maps discovered in the attic of a Heritage Hill home are giving historians a glimpse of what downtown Grand Rapids looked like nearly 150 years ago. The Grand ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A man who admitted stealing rare and valuable old maps from libraries has been sentenced to five years in a Connecticut prison. E. Forbes Smiley III, 50, of Chilmark, Mass., will ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. The rare maps E. Forbes Smiley III admitted stealing had been carefully preserved for centuries, providing a glimpse of how past generations saw the new world unfolding long before ...