Stanford’s Western Hemisphere Map 1877
Stanford’s Western Hemisphere Map 1877 captures the Americas at a moment when the shape of the continents was largely settled but Antarctica remained a mystery, sketched in with just a handful of coastal place names and believed by mapmakers of the day to be flat. Drawn by Stanford’s Geographical Establishment and published under the direction of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, this reproduction comes from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive.
The stereographic projection renders each country in soft, hand-colored pastel tones with borders picked out in stronger hues, hachures marking the mountain ranges, and arrows tracing ocean currents and trade winds. Latitude and longitude lines run at 10 degree intervals, framed by side panels illustrating six different map projections, including Mercator’s, and a set of globe gores drawn to the same equatorial scale.
- Reproduction from the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive
- Hand-colored pastel tones with hachures and ocean current markings
- Side panels illustrating six map projections, including Mercator’s
- Globe gores drawn to equatorial scale
- Available in paper, laminated, mounted, and framed finishing options

