{"id":1814082,"date":"2023-04-20T19:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1814082"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T23:54:04","slug":"lost-mines-buried-treasure-and-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/lost-mines-buried-treasure-and-a-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Mines, Buried Treasure, and a Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A 1952 pictorial map purporting to show the locations of lost mines and sunken treasures in the Americas led L. A. Times<\/em> reporter Daniel Miller, who acquired a copy of said map a few years ago, down two separate rabbit holes<\/a>: one in which he unburies the history of the mapmaker, John D. Lawrence, who was colourful in a very California way; the other in which modern-day treasure hunters are prospecting at one of the locations shown on Lawrence\u2019s map: Mount Kokoweef. Miller speculates as to what Lawrence knew about the Kokoweef site; me, I\u2019m always skeptical about reading too much into maps like this, which are often retellings of retellings of stories. Still a fascinating story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 1952 pictorial map purporting to show the locations of lost mines and sunken treasures in the Americas led L. A. Times reporter Daniel Miller, who acquired a copy of said map a few years… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[460,1616],"class_list":["post-1814082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-pictorial-maps","tag-treasure-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4241,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/picturing-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814082,"position":0},"title":"Picturing America","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Meanwhile, at All Over the Map, Greg Miller has a look at another\u00a0professor with another book: Stephen J. Hornsby, who curated an exhibition of American pictorial maps at the Osher Map Library last year, has published a book on the subject:\u00a0Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps, out last\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picturing-america-wide-116x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2950,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/09\/war-map-an-exhibition-of-pictorial-conflict-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814082,"position":1},"title":"War Map: An Exhibition of Pictorial Conflict Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 September 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"We're familiar with caricature maps from before and during the First World War: maps that reimagine various countries as warring animals or caricatured faces. These aren't the only\u00a0examples of persuasive cartography or of pictorial maps of this or other wars, but I imagine they'll be front and centre at a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"war-map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/war-map.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1560,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/the-golden-age-of-american-pictorial-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814082,"position":2},"title":"The Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Golden Age of American Pictorial Maps is an exhibition running until 3 September 2016 at the University of Southern Maine's Osher Map Library. (If you can't go there physically, there's plenty online at the link, too.) \"Curated by Dr. Stephen J. Hornsby, co-editor of the Historical Atlas of Maine\u00a0[previously]\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Capital of a New Trade Empire, 1929. Sheet map, 33\u00d730 cm. 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Dug of the Map of the Week blog visited it last week; here's their writeup.","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5896,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/11\/picturing-america-the-golden-age-of-pictorial-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814082,"position":4},"title":"Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"With Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps (University of Chicago Press, March 2017), Stephen J. Hornsby makes the case for the pictorial map as a distinct and significant genre of mapmaking that is worthy of study and preservation. Because pictorial maps were artistic rather than scientific, Hornsby argues,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picturing-america-wide-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1785091,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/the-pictorial-maps-of-jean-louis-rheault\/","url_meta":{"origin":1814082,"position":5},"title":"The Pictorial Maps of Jean-Louis Rheault","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 March 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"KelownaNow reports that a pictorial tourist map of Kelowna, British Columbia will be updated by the original artist later this year. The original version, first released in 2012, was featured in the NACIS\u00a0Atlas of Design in 2014.\u00a0This local news item was my segue into the work of pictorial map artist\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rheault-kelowna-1024x569.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rheault-kelowna-1024x569.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rheault-kelowna-1024x569.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rheault-kelowna-1024x569.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814085,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814082\/revisions\/1814085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}