Petrofuture Maps–The United States
Introducing the Petrofuture map series. These are similar to the Retrofuture series, but I'm adding 66 meters of sea level rise to vintage oil corporation road maps.The concept of combining…
Introducing the Petrofuture map series. These are similar to the Retrofuture series, but I'm adding 66 meters of sea level rise to vintage oil corporation road maps.The concept of combining…
Here is the Napa Valley edition of the Retrofuture Series maps. Say goodbye to your jammy Zinfandels and structured Cabernets. This is the restored 1902 Napa Valley map from my…
California Retrofuture…a 1879 Department of the Interior map with 218’ of sea level rise—if all the world’s ice caps melted. I’ve added modern shaded terrain to accentuate the landforms. The…
The sprawling arms of Lake Powell were once the side-canyons of Glen Canyon. This map shows what the canyon looked like before being filled by the reservoir. With the climate…
Here is the first San Francisco edition of the Retrofuture Series maps.I’ve always avoided making sea level rise maps focused on San Francisco, because @burritojustice already made that map. The…
Showing the north shore of the Bay of LA after all the ice sheets melt, these six maps align perfectly in a row, from Pacific Palisades to Whittier, going through Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Downtown LA, and East LA.
I've always been fascinated with maps from the 1800s into the 20th century. Old enough to show a very different world from today, but modern enough to be accurate, maps…
This is an amazing map of Yosemite and the mid-Sierras. It's from 1947, and the detail of the terrain and the hillshading is gorgeous. I repaired and restored this old…
My favorite hobby right now--restoring old maps. I was in Kauai last year with my family, and so I went searching for old maps of the island. Here's one I…
...that is, Husky Stadium before it was Husky Stadium. Here are plans and drawings for the University of Washington Associated Students Stadium, by Bebb & Gould, 1920. I love the narrow,…