{"id":1464,"date":"2011-01-11T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2011-01-11T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T14:12:44","slug":"travel-poster-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/travel-poster-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel poster maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thumbing through the Boston Public Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/\">Flickr photos<\/a> the other day and revisited their set of old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/sets\/72157618058787787\/\">travel posters<\/a>, some of which had been on display in a nice exhibit at the main library recently. BPL has some 350 of them, and they&#8217;re pretty great. I usually leave the sharing of interesting map links to other more reliable bloggers, but these were shiny and distracting, and I just wanted to make sure we all knew to look at travel posters for our carto-fix.<\/p>\n<p>Here are most (but not all) of the map-based travel posters from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/sets\/72157618058787787\/\">Flickr set<\/a>. Click them to visit their respective photo pages, where you can see them in larger sizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3531470678\/\" title=\"Visitez Belle-Ile-en-Mer. En pleine mer en Bretagne by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2028\/3531470678_6287d1b353_z.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Visitez Belle-Ile-en-Mer. En pleine mer en Bretagne\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530662189\/\" title=\"Italy. Do you know the land? by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2038\/3530662189_370af7b2ed_z.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Italy. Do you know the land?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530680241\/\" title=\"Visit Java. Only 36 hours from Singapore by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2172\/3530680241_eca07ed326_z.jpg\" width=\"401\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Visit Java. Only 36 hours from Singapore\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530680951\/\" title=\"India. The land of Lord Buddha by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3352\/3530680951_9287ba6de5_z.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"640\" alt=\"India. The land of Lord Buddha\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3531527882\/\" title=\"Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2104\/3531527882_1c62c8cec1_z.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530721117\/\" title=\"Jura Suisse. Ligne lectrifie du Jura Suisse voitures directes by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2200\/3530721117_878e1f10a4_z.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Jura Suisse. Ligne lectrifie du Jura Suisse voitures directes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530730091\/\" title=\"Sweden. That's the place by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2183\/3530730091_cf57e32c96_z.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Sweden. That's the place\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/3530742191\/\" title=\"A beautifully engrossed map of summer play land by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3093\/3530742191_8f43aaf1af_z.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"640\" alt=\"A beautifully engrossed map of summer play land\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nBonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/sets\/72157623956299174\/\">produce crate labels<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boston_public_library\/4562656587\/\" title=\"Panama Brand: Packed by Johnston Fruit Co., Santa Barbara, California by Boston Public Library, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3589\/4562656587_8a7a833632_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Panama Brand: Packed by Johnston Fruit Co., Santa Barbara, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, as the true map geeks out there surely know, BPL also has an excellent map collection, with many maps viewable online through <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.bpl.org\/\">their own site<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/normanbleventhalmapcenter\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thumbing through the Boston Public Library&#8217;s Flickr photos the other day and revisited their set of old travel posters, some of which had been on display in a nice exhibit at the main library recently. BPL has some 350 of them, and they&#8217;re pretty great. I usually leave the sharing of interesting map [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[113,114,112],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-bpl","tag-tourism","tag-travel-posters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}