Rochester Map Typography

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published November 20, 2014 and can be found here.

By Mike Governale

Preface: I am a total geek and I have stopped caring who knows it. With that out of the way, one of my favorite things in the world to do is study old maps. And my favorite part of old maps are the titles! I told you, total... geek.

I've always been amazed at how much attention used to go into the details of these hand-drawn works of art. These days all we do is send a satellite up into space, or someone out to drive around and snap pictures of our streets - and don't get me wrong, that's pretty neat for other reasons. But Google streetview ain't got nuthin on this. Go ahead, geek out...

(UPDATE: The image shown above is now available to order .)