Monteith’s Perspective View of the Mississippi River
Although I have called James Monteith the "Master of the Margins," one of the other things I find unique and innovative about Monteith is his perspective illustrations of large geographic…
James Monteith Gravesite
I passed through Philadelphia as I was finishing up my article on James Monteith in Cartographic Perspectives and stopped by Laurel Hill Cemetery to see his grave. The cemetery staff…
James Monteith’s First Attempt at Comparative Area
James Monteith's textbooks make a lot of inventive efforts to help geography students understand comparative area on maps (read more about that here). This map is from the first half…
Balloon View of a Continent
James Monteith published many of these "balloon views" of continents in his late nineteenth-century geography textbooks. This is an oblique view with exaggerated terrain that is neither a topographic map,…