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Title
A name given to the resource
Geographic Card Set
Identifier
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007
Description
An account of the resource
In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of<span> </span><a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image">playing cards</a>. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:
<div>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p><strong>As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards</strong>. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.<br /><br /><strong>We think you should play with these cards.</strong> We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. <br /><br /><strong>You don't read Russian?</strong> No problem, we have translated the content. <br /><br /><strong>You don't know where any of these places are?</strong> No problem, we made maps. <br /><br /><strong>You don't know what questions to ask?</strong> No problem, we took care of that, too. </p>
<h2>Now stop making excuses. <a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards">Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards</a>"</h2>
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)<br /><br /><em>Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the <a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener">Meeting of Frontiers</a> project: a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.</em>
Source
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Meeting of Frontiers
Publisher
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Library of Congress, Russian National Library
GeoCard
Province
Iakutsk
Capital
Yakutsk
Area (square miles)
721,228
Economic Activities
Forest, Fishing, Pasture
Resident Ethnicities
Iakuts, Tungus, Buriats, Lamuts, Iukagirs
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Title
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Iakutsk
Description
An account of the resource
Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.
Source
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<a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank">Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections</a>
Publisher
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Library of Congress; Russian National Library
Language
A language of the resource
Russian
Rights
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Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1856
Siberia
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sheets from the GARE Atlas
Description
An account of the resource
Together, the 59 map sheets in this collection constitute the <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographic Atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland</a>. The metadata for each sheet in this collection consists of the following:<br />
<ul>
<li>Title: a simplified English translation of the name of the administrative unit</li>
<li>Alternate names: the Cyrillic name given on the sheet as well as a Latin transliteration</li>
<li>Scale: the scale ratio provided by the Library of Congress</li>
<li>Sheet #: the integer representing the order in which the sheet appears in the atlas</li>
<li>Sheet publication year: the year in which the sheet was originally published, prior to compilation in 1827</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/neatline/fullscreen/reading-moscow#records/20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We marked up the Moscow Province sheet so that you can get better sense of what the maps contain.</a> <br /><br />Note too, that each sheet is linked to other items in the project site. These "item relations" are listed at the bottom of the page, along with any relevant thematic tags.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
006
Atlas Sheet
Alternate names
Iakutskaia oblast' i Okhotskoj okrug
Sheet #
56
Sheet publication year
1826
Scale
1:4,620,000
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Title
A name given to the resource
Iakutsk and Okhotsk
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Title
A name given to the resource
Geographic Card Set
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
007
Description
An account of the resource
In 1856, a hot new item hit the shelves in Russia: a set of<span> </span><a data-size="medium" data-align="right" data-caption="description" data-annotations="" resource="yaroslav-province" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/imperiia/original/3159934d76f3c41fb9190281e87d6db9.jpg" class="media_link texteo_icon texteo_icon_image">playing cards</a>. Created by Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov, the set had an impressive title:
<div>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p><strong>As you can imagine, these were not your ordinary playing cards</strong>. They were elaborately illustrated, beautifully-produced, and laden with pedagogical and ideological value. If you had money to spare and fancied yourself an educated, elite, or prestige-hungry subject of the tsar, you no doubt found a way to get your hands on a set.<br /><br /><strong>We think you should play with these cards.</strong> We think the chances are good that you will learn as much from them as we have. <br /><br /><strong>You don't read Russian?</strong> No problem, we have translated the content. <br /><br /><strong>You don't know where any of these places are?</strong> No problem, we made maps. <br /><br /><strong>You don't know what questions to ask?</strong> No problem, we took care of that, too. </p>
<h2>Now stop making excuses. <a href="https://imperiia.scalar.fas.harvard.edu/imperiia/the-playing-cards">Click here to explore "Deal: History Through Playing Cards</a>"</h2>
(And come back here anytime to access the images via a dynamic, high-resolution viewer.)<br /><br /><em>Note: The cards were digitized as the "Geographic Card Set of the Russian Empire" by the <a target="_blank" href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/nlrmp.html#d_eng" rel="noopener">Meeting of Frontiers</a> project: a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Russian National Library. They are available for noncommercial educational use.</em>
Source
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Meeting of Frontiers
Publisher
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Library of Congress, Russian National Library
GeoCard
Province
Iaroslav
Capital
Yaroslav
Area (square miles)
14,051
Population (total)
1,008,100
Economic Activities
Factories, Shipbuilding
Resident Ethnicities
Russians, Gypsies
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Title
A name given to the resource
Iaroslav
Description
An account of the resource
Summary of the culture, history, economy and geography of the province.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfhome.html" target="_blank">Meeting of Frontiers Digital Collections</a>
Publisher
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Library of Congress; Russian National Library
Language
A language of the resource
Russian
Rights
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Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.
Coverage
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1856
Central Industrial region
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Sheets from the GARE Atlas
Description
An account of the resource
Together, the 59 map sheets in this collection constitute the <a href="http://dighist.fas.harvard.edu/projects/imperiia/items/show/321" target="_self">Geographic Atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland</a>. The metadata for each sheet in this collection consists of the following:<br />
<ul>
<li>Title: a simplified English translation of the name of the administrative unit</li>
<li>Alternate names: the Cyrillic name given on the sheet as well as a Latin transliteration</li>
<li>Scale: the scale ratio provided by the Library of Congress</li>
<li>Sheet #: the integer representing the order in which the sheet appears in the atlas</li>
<li>Sheet publication year: the year in which the sheet was originally published, prior to compilation in 1827</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://imperiia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/neatline/fullscreen/reading-moscow#records/20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We marked up the Moscow Province sheet so that you can get better sense of what the maps contain.</a> <br /><br />Note too, that each sheet is linked to other items in the project site. These "item relations" are listed at the bottom of the page, along with any relevant thematic tags.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
006
Atlas Sheet
Alternate names
Ярославская губерния, Iaroslavskaia guberniia
Sheet #
30
Sheet publication year
1822
Scale
1:930,000
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Title
A name given to the resource
Iaroslav
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Title
A name given to the resource
Incremental Sea
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
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Title
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Ice Chart (February)
Creator
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U.S. Navy
Source
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https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1mdq5o5/TN_cdi_lunacommons_luna_oai_N_A_RUMSEY_8_1_203007_3001308
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1946
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Document
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Original Format
The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
text
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Title
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Ice-free Days in the Azov Basin
Description
An account of the resource
Snapshot of a statistical table describing the annual fluctuations in the freezing and melting of Russian rivers.
Creator
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Central Statistical Committee
Source
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Statisticheskij vremmenik rossijskoj imperii, vypusk 2, pg.164
Publisher
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Ministerstvo Vnutrennykh Del
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1872
hydrography
ice
statistical table
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Title
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Russia as Rectangle
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
2a44a072-667a-4ac7-b0e9-cb9d0154e2c7
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Title
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Iceland
Source
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Grosser Deutscher Atlas. Erfunden von Franz Joh. Jos. von Reilly. Gezeichnet von Vinzenz Georg Kininger. Gestochen von Karl Schutz.
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
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Title
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Russia as Rectangle
IIIF Collection Metadata
UUID
2a44a072-667a-4ac7-b0e9-cb9d0154e2c7
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Title
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III. Grossen und Bevoelkerungs : Karte von Europa
Source
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~278969~90052042/manifest
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/c87d7a
Description
An account of the resource
"Double page engraved hand color Statistical table. Engraved by I. Albrecht. Shows population density in European countries. Includes list of Germany's square mileage and population of each region."
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Reilly, Franz Johann Joseph von (1766-1820)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1795
IIIF Item Metadata
Original @id
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/iiif/m/RUMSEY~8~1~278969~90052042/canvas/c1
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Title
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Image store
-
Hyperlink
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Local URL
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http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/russianempire
URL
http://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/russianempire
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Title
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Imperiia Project
Description
An account of the resource
The purpose of the Imperiia project is to promote the study of Russia's spatial history. To that end it aims to 1) make available a range of historical maps, databases related to demographics, cultural institutions, and economy, 2) assist instructors in bringing interactive engagement with maps and geographical information into the history classroom, 3) encourage conversation among researchers, instructors and students interested in the spatial history of the empire.
Creator
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Kelly O'Neill
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
WorldMap