Tag: maps

UIG’s visualtrove.com prints site

12th June 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

UIG’s http://www.visualtrove.com site offers hundreds of posters to help you decorate your home, classroom, office, hotel, or dorm.  The visualtrove.com site features content from UIG’s Prints & Posters collection and offers customers subjects covering Historical World Maps; Propaganda; Vintage Theater Posters; Product Advertisements; Vintage Travel Posters and Historical Events. In addition to the content available […]

Read More

Navigating the history of maps

25th October 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

From the early Babylonians to Google Earth, the history of cartography has continued evolving to better support an increasingly connected world.  For more than 5000 years, humans have been creating and using maps to better navigate and understand the world around us. The Babylonians, believed to be the world’s first cartographers, mapped the world in a […]

Read More