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Dustin A. Cable, Demographics Research Group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
A dot map of Detroit that shows the racial makeup of the city based on 2010 Census Block Data. The effects of federally-funded segregation are visible…
Detroit Free Press
A black and white newsprint map of Detroit showing patterns of vacancies in the city. The term “blight” here is used to describe boarded up, burned…
Hearne Brothers
A polyconic projection of the Greater Detroit Area where individual neighborhoods have been ranked and colored according to HOLC ratings of perceived…
Akademische Verlagsanstalt
This colored fold out world map shows the continents using the Peters Projection. The shape of continents are distorted in order to preserve the…
John Smith and Simon van de Passe
A black and white map of the New England coastline. On the top right, a large engraved portrait of John Smith with a caption praising his…
Jodocus Hondius
A hand-colored map of the Virginia colony richly illustrated with trees, hills, and rivers. On the top left, an engraving titled “Powhatan Held this…
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
A black and white map of the United States showing the number of lynchings committed in each state betwen the years 1889 and 1918. The Southern states…
Elkanah Tisdale
A digitally enhanced image of Tisdale’s “The Gerry-Mander” political cartoon. The cartoon lambasts the contorted shape of congressional districts in…
Michigan State Highway Department
A black and white map of the operating and planned expressways in Detroit. The construction of the proposed Chrysler Expressway (I-75/I-375) decimated…
Odt, Inc. Maps International and Lovell Johns, LTD.
A brightly-colored map of the world oriented with south at the top of the map. The map intends to disorient the viewer by presenting a familiar sight…