Do You Have Any Maps

[rhetoricfemme]

I'm trying to collect maps of any sort. American, foreign, and the older the better. I'm attempting to decorate our house with a sort of Americana theme... Even magazine pics of old maps, advertisements, nostalgia, etc.

Anyone can or want to donate to the cause? If it'll fit into an envelope that doesn't make you pay extra postage, that's all I'm looking for.

Or! If you've decorated like this and/or seen places decorated like this, I like just hearing about, it, too.

Thanks!

Edited May 11, 2010 by rhetoricfemme

[Nihil Obstat]

I can send you a brand new road map of Alberta.

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='11 May 2010 - 12:47 PM' timestamp='1273596431' post='2108687']
I can send you a brand new road map of Alberta.


[/quote]
Lol, I could do stuff with it! You beat it up some, soak it in tea, and voila! You have an antiquated map!

For the record, I'm not suggesting Alberta needs a beating.

[Nihil Obstat]

[Thy Geekdom Come]

You and my mother have similar taste. Please just tell me you don't have a lot of worthless croutons around your house.

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='Raphael' date='11 May 2010 - 01:24 PM' timestamp='1273598689' post='2108705']
You and my mother have similar taste. Please just tell me you don't have a lot of worthless croutons around your house.
[/quote]
Lol! No worthless croutons here! I actually kind of have the opposite problem of a pack rat, I have zero problem with getting rid of stuff, and my husband has seriously had to rescue random things from me that did prove useful to us later. Seriously, I donate stuff and am happy to drive it to wherever, but I've even had the Salvation Army send a truck to our home, lol.

The effect I'm going for is an Old World and Americana mix. I love lots of pictures of our family, and I like to find wrapping paper from World Market to use as backgrounds and mats on them. They have awesome wrapping papers, some that even look like 19th century wallpaper.

I also collect the maps, as well as antique holiday and post cards, magazines, etc. I'll frame those things. I'm more fond of stuff that goes up on the walls, because we live somewhere that we can't paint, and I like the floor and table stops to be clean and not cluttered. Books and baby toys do that enough, lol.

Our kitchen is my favorite. I have hanging mug racks that are made of cast iron, and I eventually want to get iron coat hooks and stuff that have stars or neat designs shaped into them.

Here are two of my favorite things hanging up in our house. The map is from 1946, and I'm not sure how old the PSA is. I can't think of anything better to hang right over the toilet in our downstairs bathroom.

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[Thy Geekdom Come]

My mom TOTALLY has stuff you could use. From "Quarantine" signs during a TB outbreak to a 1940's Red Cross Lifeguard guidebook to a sign for a pay-toilet to wallpaper of old adds for things like "Goose Grease" and "Dr. Scott's Electric Comb" to an original Howdy Doodey marionette to little tin wind-up toys that average $250 each on Ebay to a Red Star Line plate from a sister ship of the Titanic to an old school house map of Asia (circa 1930) to ...

Trouble is, she's a pack rat, and probably won't get rid of any of it. I'll be stuck sifting through that croutons for a year or more when she dies.

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='Raphael' date='11 May 2010 - 02:11 PM' timestamp='1273601466' post='2108739']
My mom TOTALLY has stuff you could use. From "Quarantine" signs during a TB outbreak to a 1940's Red Cross Lifeguard guidebook to a sign for a pay-toilet to wallpaper of old adds for things like "Goose Grease" and "Dr. Scott's Electric Comb" to an original Howdy Doodey marionette to little tin wind-up toys that average $250 each on Ebay to a Red Star Line plate from a sister ship of the Titanic to an old school house map of Asia (circa 1930) to ...

Trouble is, she's a pack rat, and probably won't get rid of any of it. I'll be stuck sifting through that croutons for a year or more when she dies.
[/quote]
Sounds like your mom has a nice collection! Hehe, if she needs help appearing less packrattish, I can help her catalog her stuff. On top of it all, I'm, a nerd. I don't care much for scrapbooking, but I catalog and bind things so they're not floating around. When I die at age 103 (I've decided, God might have some other time in mind, but yeah), they can throw out or donate whatever they want of mine. But I'll make sure to have my lawyer give them the catalog I've made up telling them where everything is, lol.

Actually... That's not a bad idea...

Edited May 11, 2010 by rhetoricfemme

[Old_Joe]

I don't know how old they are, but we have a ton of road maps, mostly of US states.

[CatherineM]

I'm married to a geographer. I'll see if he has any that don't involve Antarctica or one of Mars' moons.

[Hilde]

I think I have a map of a bulgarian water park somewhere.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='12 May 2010 - 12:19 AM' timestamp='1273637992' post='2109223']
I don't know how old they are, but we have a ton of road maps, mostly of US states.
[/quote]

You would.

[quote name='Hilde' date='12 May 2010 - 12:42 AM' timestamp='1273639339' post='2109231']
I think I have a map of a bulgarian water park somewhere.
[/quote]

E.U. people are weird. Who goes to a water park in Bulgaria?

[Hilde]

I went. It had a halfpipe waterslide and several other slides. And waves.

Edited May 12, 2010 by Hilde

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='Old_Joe' date='12 May 2010 - 12:19 AM' timestamp='1273637992' post='2109223']
I don't know how old they are, but we have a ton of road maps, mostly of US states.
[/quote]
Road maps are cool!

[quote name='CatherineM' date='12 May 2010 - 12:38 AM' timestamp='1273639127' post='2109229']
I'm married to a geographer. I'll see if he has any that don't involve Antarctica or one of Mars' moons.
[/quote]
Thank you! Ooh, he'd hit it off with my husband. He loves all things geography. And actually, when he was in high school he got to go to Antarctica! I'm pretty sure he's one of only a very few teens whose mother had to call in to school and say, "He's not coming cause he's stuck in Drake's Passage. No, I don't know when he'll be back..."

[quote name='Hilde' date='12 May 2010 - 12:42 AM' timestamp='1273639339' post='2109231']
I think I have a map of a bulgarian water park somewhere.
[/quote]
Sweet!

[quote name='Hilde' date='12 May 2010 - 04:51 AM' timestamp='1273654302' post='2109261']
I went. It had a halfpipe waterslide and several other slides. And waves.
[/quote]
::hands up for waterslides::

Thanks for your help, everyone. You rock!

Edited May 12, 2010 by rhetoricfemme

[CatherineM]

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' date='12 May 2010 - 04:53 AM' timestamp='1273657991' post='2109264']
Thank you! Ooh, he'd hit it off with my husband. He loves all things geography. And actually, when he was in high school he got to go to Antarctica! I'm pretty sure he's one of only a very few teens whose mother had to call in to school and say, "He's not coming cause he's stuck in Drake's Passage. No, I don't know when he'll be back..."

[/quote]
He was 23 when he went. He was the first person to take a Papal flag to the South Pole. Got him a private audience with John Paul.