Imagery from Levi Walter Yaggy’s “Geographical Maps and Charts”(1887/93). So much prettier than the GPS on your phone.

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Planetary System: Eclipse of the Sun; The Moon; The Zodiac Light: Meteoric Shower\ with five opening flaps, from Yaggy’s Geographical Study, 1887. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
Physical Geography, with the map’s subterranean layer displayed, from Yaggy’s Geographical Study, 1887. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
Planetary System: Eclipse of the Sun; The Moon; The Zodiac Light: Meteoric Shower. Chart, backlit with central flap open to reveal the Chart of the Heavens, from Yaggy’s Geographical Study, 1887. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter

Geography: Physical, political, geological and astronomical. Title page. 1887. from Yaggy’s Geographical Study, 1887. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
Tropical Zone. Taken from Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio, 1893. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
Arctic Zone. Taken from Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio, 1893. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
Nature in Descending Regions. Taken from Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio, 1893. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter
View of Nature in Ascending Regions. Taken from Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio, 1893. Levi Walter Yaggy, maker. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yaggy-geographical-maps?utm_source=newsletter

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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