All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.

Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Nuggets of American History, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century: Books, Broadsides, Maps, Views and Manuscripts; To Be Sold Without Reserve or Restriction by Order of Various Owners, on Monday Evening and Tuesday Afternoon and Evening, November 19th and 20th, 1917 The Books, Broadsides, Maps, Manuscripts, Views and other items herein catalogued have been consigned from various sources. They are sold to the highest bidder under the Association's usual and invariable conditions of an unrestricted and unprotected sale. The various collections herein represented constitute as a Whole, one of the choicest gatherings of rare and important historical items relating to the history of America, Offered at public sale in this country, in recent years. Seldom, if ever, since the formation of the great historical libraries formed by Brinley, Barlow, Menzies, Murphy, and Deane, has the opportunity been Offered to procure so many items of historical interest covering the entire range of American history, from the early Colonial period, to and including the period of Western adventure and the opening of the vast territory west of the Mississippi to the trade of the White settlers by the explorations of Lewis and Clark, and other famous explorers of the early nineteenth century. Many important subjects will be found represented by items of great rarity, including, - maps, broadsides, manuscripts, views, tracts and standard historical works, etc., which should offer to the discriminating collector and librarians of historical societies, a rich field from which to gather important items lacking in their collections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.