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Nellie Bly, Game Changer

March 8, 2019by themaphouse

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating a remarkable woman – pioneer of investigative journalism in America, rights activist and intrepid traveller, Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922), better known as Nellie […]

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Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the launch of @NASA's second mission to the Moon, Apollo 12, in November 1969 🚀🌚 • This detailed photo-map of landing site seven in the Ocean of Storms is signed by Apollo 12 Commander Charles 'Pete' Conrad (1930-1999) and Lunar Module Pilot, Alan Bean (1932-2018). • Inside the ellipse, every crater, boulder and other features in the lunar terrain are mapped to help better prepare Conrad and Bean in the lunar descent. The reason being that during the final phases of descent during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, Neil Armstrong ran into difficulties trying to find flat ground upon which to land Lunar Module "Eagle", having to quickly skip past craters and boulders whilst rapidly running out of fuel! • 🔎 View the map in more detail and see our collection of original antique and vintage Moon maps at themaphouse.com 🌙 • #moon #apollo12 #apollo50 #nasa #mappingthemoon #moonmap #raremaps #maps #astronaut #moonlanding #🚀

Travel Tuesday this week takes us across the Channel to France. • This bright promotional poster was issued to advertise French State Railways for visitors to the Paris Exposition which ran from May to November in 1937🗼 • The poster is in English and the upper left corner bears the outline of the Statue of Liberty with the travel routes sourced from her torch, suggesting the poster was aimed at the American public 🗽(The Statue of Liberty was a gift to America from the French in 1886 to represent their mutual desire for liberty and freedom, and parts of her had previously been exhibited at earlier world fairs). • This would be the last "Exposition Internationale" before the devastation of the Second World War. As international tensions mounted, it is said that across the exhibition there were celebrations of opposing views between the arts and sciences, between socialism and capitalism, and between democracy and fascism. The theme of the Exposition was arts and technology and in the final official report it is said that French Minister Ferdinand Chapsal wrote "This great lesson in international cooperation will not be forgotten". • #travelposter #vintage #history #maps #vintageposter #france #america #toureiffel #tourist #attraction #vintagedecor #🇫🇷 #eiffeltower #statueofliberty #🇺🇸

Monday afternoon at The Map House 🌍📚 • The gallery is open 10am - 6pm Monday to Friday and 10:30am - 5pm on Saturdays. Come and explore our galleries and our collection of over 11,000 original antique maps 🔍 • #raremaps #antiqueprints #globes #gallery #london #gift #winter #antiquedecor #maps #interiorstyling #mapping #prints #history #MondayMotivation

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