Heart on your sleeve; address on your hand

Posted on January 1, 2008 by cicada

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Glove map of London, 1851, by George Shove. Printed map on leather.

Long before Googlemaps on an iPhone or handheld GPS devices, there was the very analog Victorian Glove Map. How cool is this?

via Mapping the Marvellous

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