If you are a regular reader of Pictureboxblue, you will know I have a thing about vintage maps, and I’m always looking for new ways to display them in my home. This time I’ve made a DIY map cork board for my home office. I already have a homemade world[Read more]
I have recently discovered the TV series Outlander, and I’m slowly working my way through all 5 seasons on Amazon Prime. The first season is set in Scotland which has given me the inspiration to compile this collection of free vintage maps of Scotland. My mother is Scottish and as[Read more]
I was inspired to curate this panoramic map collection, after spotting cool old birds-eye view maps San Francisco Bay area on TV. That TV series was “Halt and Catch Fire“. The latter two seasons were set in San Francisco. One of the main characters “Joe“, had a huge antique birds-eye[Read more]
The stunning geography posters in this collection are all by Levi Yaggy. They are from a collection of beautiful geography charts used in schools in the US from 1887. In the past, I have shared collections of illustrated zoological posters and botanical posters from the Larousse Illustrated dictionaries. This collection[Read more]
This is a collection of gorgeous old maps of Asia that are in the public domain. I was born in Asia, Hong Kong to be precise and that was my family home for the first 30 years of my life. I now live in Europe, but there will always be[Read more]
I was inspired to curate this collection of free old maps of South America, after watching a series on TV, Race Across The World. In the program teams of two have to race across South America. From Mexico City to the world’s southernmost city Ushuaia in Argentina. They are not[Read more]
A hemisphere is half a sphere. So when it comes to the earth which is a globe then hemisphere maps show the world dived into two hemispheres. There are actually four world hemispheres depending on where the earth is divided. If a world map is divided into a double hemisphere[Read more]
I have curated a collection of free printable old maps of Africa. All these wonderful maps are in the public domain so you are free to use them how you wish to. Africa is a continent I would love to explore more of one day. I have only ever visited[Read more]