{"id":1817263,"date":"2023-07-13T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817263"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T14:59:58","slug":"the-materiality-of-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/the-materiality-of-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Materiality of Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh from a course on the materiality\u2014\u201ci.e. the physical characteristics of maps: size, paper, format, printing method, color, etc.\u201d\u2014of maps, the Library of Congress\u2019s Amelia Raines explores a few maps<\/a> from her home state of Michigan in terms of the production methods behind them, and the context in which they were published (e.g. as part of a book).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fresh from a course on the materiality\u2014\u201ci.e. the physical characteristics of maps: size, paper, format, printing method, color, etc.\u201d\u2014of maps, the Library of Congress\u2019s Amelia Raines explores a few maps from her home state of… 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":[10],"tags":[48,66,285],"class_list":["post-1817263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-library-of-congress","tag-printing","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/copper-plates-used-to-make-topo-maps-on-display\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817263,"position":0},"title":"Copper Plates Used to Make Topo Maps on Display","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Michigan State University Map Library now\u00a0has on display three\u00a0copper plates used to make the 1912\u00a0USGS topographic map of the Lansing, Michigan area. \"From the 1880s to the 1950s, the U.S. Geological Survey used engraved copper plates in the process of printing topographic and geographic quadrangle maps. 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