Glasgow
Within the 1860s, The Illustrated London Information printed a sequence of chook’s-eye panoramic maps of well-known cities. These maps had been created by architectural draftsman Thomas Sulman with the assistance of engraver Robert Loudan. Legend has it that Sulman used scorching air balloons to seize his aerial views of those distinguished city facilities.
The Glasgow Metropolis Heritage Belief has created a formidable interactive map of Sulman’s 1864 Fowl’s Eye View of Glasgow. Their Gallus Glasgow presentation permits customers to discover this aerial depiction of mid-Nineteenth-century Glasgow and evaluate it with a panoramic chook’s-eye view of the town as captured initially of the twenty first century.
This interactive model of the historic map consists of a number of optionally available overlays. These function markers indicating the places of buildings which have survived for the reason that map’s creation, buildings which have been misplaced over time, and an choice to show Glasgow’s road names superimposed on Sulman’s map. The map even incorporates a sequence of movies that dive into the small print, providing a extra immersive, first-person perspective of life in Nineteenth-century Glasgow.
New York
You may view Sulman’s 1876 chook’s eye view of New York, New York From Bergen Hill, on the Library of Congress web site. This panoramic view of New York was printed as an additional complement to the Illustrated London Information on August 18, 1876. The Library of Congress copy of the map is just a little poor in high quality. A better decision copy could be seen on Digital Commonwealth.
London
The Charles Dickens Web page permits you to view numerous chook’s eye views of London neighborhoods, as captured by Thomas Sulman within the 1880’s. These maps had been initially printed in 1886, in a London guidebook by Herbert Fry.
The maps on the Charles Dickens web page embrace some interactive place-name labels, which could be clicked on to be taught extra about crucial buildings and streets displayed. A few of the maps have additionally been digitally altered to boost sure options and to ‘align the pictures with Dickens’ lifetime’.
