1931 An Illustrated Map of Chicago...An Illustrated Map of Chicago, Youthful City of the Big Shoulders Restless Ingenious Wilful Violent Proud to be Alive By: Charles Turzak & Henry Chapman Date: 1931 (dated) Chicago Original Size: 22. 5 x 37. 5 inches (57. 15 cm x 95. 25 cm) This is a superb example of Turzak & Chapmans iconic map of the city of Chicago. Presented with a birds eye view or the city from Lake Michigan, this joyous pictorial map is rich in detail, color, and humor. While

Panama was the first 'official’ Spanish colony in the New World

British settlements and Indian villages are recorded and vignettes illustrating fauna and Indian fortifications embellish the map

Another to the west of Java is labeled l’Oiseau

The focus of the map is a panoptic view of Tokyo

New Mexico is also approximately twice its modern size

the Coliseum

Original Size: 22 x 18

we find that the Great Lakes are well defined in North America

Hess' painting

Latitude to 50 degrees N

By: Herman Moll

the Blaeu Company had consistently projected North America with California attached and the coast jutting to the far northwestern reaches of the Pacific