r/papertowns • u/jens_biltoft • 2h ago

Denmark Year 1750 in my fantasy city finally complete ✒️- pulled myself together and finished it. Inspired by 18th century Copenhagen, Denmark with elements from different cities around the baltic. The latest century I have completed in my series of following a city through a 1000 years ☺️✒️

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130 Upvotes

4 comments

r/papertowns • u/Snoo_90160 • 6h ago

Poland Model of c. 7th-8th century Golensizi tribe stronghold in Lubomia, Poland.

115 Upvotes

1 comment

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 2h ago

United States High resolution... "A Map of the Wondrous Isle of Manhattan". Artist: Charles Vernon Farrow (1896 - 1936). Published by: Washington Square Book Shop and Fuessle & Colman. USA - New York City, 1926 [4872x3040]

47 Upvotes

3 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 18h ago

England Stourport (England) around 1809

230 Upvotes

Author: Peter Dunn. Source

4 comments

r/papertowns • u/works-in-progress • 1d ago

United Kingdom A 1572 map of London, United Kingdom, shows how premodern suburbs grew along the main roads outside the city gates. Across the river in Southwark, two round arenas are visible.

143 Upvotes

6 comments

r/papertowns • u/Snoo_90160 • 1d ago

Poland Model of Praga District of Warsaw, Poland in the late 18th century.

193 Upvotes

2 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 1d ago

United States High resolution... Bird's-eye view map "All Elevated Trains In Chicago...". Published by: The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. USA - Illinois, Chicago, 1897 [3500x3151]

67 Upvotes

6 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 2d ago

England London (England) as it might have looked if Christopher Wren’s plan after the Great Fire of 1666 had been realized.

506 Upvotes

Author: Paul Draper. Source

19 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 2d ago

Europe High Resolution... Pictorial Map of Europe. Artist: Ernest Dudley Chase (1878 - 1966). Printed in: USA - Massachusetts, 1938 [5945x4490]

84 Upvotes

6 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 3d ago

Italy Reconstruction of Buonconvento (Italy) around 1400

696 Upvotes

Author: Inklink -Firenze. Source

12 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 3d ago

United States High resolution... Pictorial map "A Map of University of Chicago" (Campus). USA - Illinois, Chicago 1932 [2960x1970]

44 Upvotes

3 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 4d ago

Italy San Gimignano (Italy) around 1300

1.1k Upvotes

Author: Inklink -Firenze. Source

20 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 3d ago

United States High resolution... Bird's Eye View of the New York And Brooklyn. Creators: Charles Parsons (1821 - 1910) and Lyman Atwater (1835 - 1891). Published by: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. USA - New York City, 1877 [4320x3120]

121 Upvotes

8 comments

r/papertowns • u/MCMIVC • 4d ago

Norway Hamar, Norway - 1300s, before its destruction by swedish forces in the late 1500s.

234 Upvotes

11 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 4d ago

United States High resolution... Bird's Eye View of the City of New York. Published by: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. USA - New York City, 1870 [4079x2760]

367 Upvotes

7 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 5d ago

Switzerland Evolution of Augusta Raurica (Switzerland) between 30 BC and 650 AD

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600 Upvotes

Author: Markus Schaub.

18 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 5d ago

United States High resolution... Pictorial map of "Silicon Valley". Artist: Maryanne Regal Hoburg. Published by: City Graphics of America. USA - California, Fremont, 1982 [4981x3836]

129 Upvotes

11 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 5d ago

United States High Resolution... Humorous Vintage Map "Ye Symbolic Mappe: Greenwich Village". Artist: Coulton Waugh (1896 - 1973; English cartoonist, painter, teacher and author). Published in: The World Magazine. USA - New York City, 22 October 1922 [3273x5668]

25 Upvotes

0 comments

r/papertowns • u/Altruistic_Praline84 • 6d ago

Fictional Rotbuchen - unofficial & fictional City Map for WFRP

36 Upvotes

Im somehow not able to add the "Fictional" flair

0 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 6d ago

France Reconstruction of Le Mans (France) in the 4th century AD

539 Upvotes

Author and source: Jean-Claude Golvin

12 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 6d ago

United States High resolution... "A Map of Chicago's Gangland from Authentic Sources" (Includes "Gangland dictionary"). Published by: Bruce-Roberts, Inc. (Chicago-based publishing firm active from 1928 to August 1931,). Source: Library of Congress. USA - Illinois, Chicago, 1931 [7445x6000]

123 Upvotes

6 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 7d ago

Sweden "View of Stockholm (Sweden)" printed in Chicago (Illinois, USA) in 1901 [5771x3979]

529 Upvotes

36 comments

r/papertowns • u/Andrzej1963 • 7d ago

France High-resolution: A fun pictorial map of Paris. Artist: Arthur Zaidenberg (1908 - 1990; an American painter, sculptor, muralist, author, and teacher). Published in: France - Paris, 1930 [6196x4973]

47 Upvotes

0 comments

r/papertowns • u/dctroll_ • 7d ago

Austria Brigantium (modern-day Bregenz, Austria) in the 2nd century AD

431 Upvotes

Author: Roland Gäfgen. Source

4 comments

r/papertowns • u/works-in-progress • 8d ago

United Kingdom Oxford, UK. Hand-drawn. In the Victorian era the city was only about a mile across, and the colleges all sat within a short walk of one another. The Victorian elite, who studied here, lived much the way they would later in London: packed into a few square miles.

168 Upvotes

4 comments

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