More Maps - these are old

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Previously:

Good source for maps for engraving

This site let me download an absolutely huge antique map of Charleston, SC. The resolution was 6,000 x 7262, which works out to forty-three megapixels. I took the image and messed with the contrast (curves are your friend), and got a black and white image that is pretty clean. I’m engraving a very small crop of it right now, using non pg birch and varying the power instead of convert to dots. Let’s see how this comes out. The whole site is full of gold, but the cartouches are astounding… h…

And previouslier:

Historical San Francisco engravings on bamboo

I started at the link below and then spent hours and hours downloading I have a few favorite links, but I’m at home and don’t have them handy. I do know that The David Rumsey site will blow your mind though. Incredible amount of stuff there! The board was about 10 or 12" long. https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html