@aguynamedjoshua: OMFG I found this map in the floorboards of my attic!!!!! Send help! Or an archeologist, or an adult, or someone who knows what to do with this!

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mwolfe674
mwolfe674 :
I’m on my way
2026-07-09 14:21:10
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nicolas.vad
Nicolas Vad :
skip it guys. he did 50 video before opening the map. plus another 50 just to start showing it. in the end. its a 1889 usa map. nothing special all boring
2026-07-10 21:00:30
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alexpoppy
Alex Poppy :
Let us know what Antarctica looks like 👀
2026-07-09 10:29:33
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caseyleppo
casey leppo 🎀🪽✨ :
Call John B
2026-07-09 10:15:08
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gory_gilmore
Gory_Gilmore :
*10 minutes later
2026-07-09 04:32:52
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jackiei1645
Jackie :
how we are are all looking 👀👀
2026-07-09 13:32:29
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slush730
Dylan :
So you gonna show us or not
2026-07-10 19:12:20
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fuckinduckie
fuckinduckie :
Did you find a grown up? I need an update
2026-07-09 04:42:15
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frost7o7
FROST :
the owner in the 1700s
2026-07-10 12:35:39
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james.in.vn
JAMES 🕶 :
does it prove the world is flat?
2026-07-13 04:21:10
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letsbklear
✨LetsBeKLEAR 🤍🕊️Laly🌪️✨ :
Don’t give it to anyone for history purposes or whatever . Keep it as a family heirloom and look up the proper ways so it doesn’t fall apart
2026-07-09 05:45:57
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xiid_oracle
XiiD :
I need an adult 😆
2026-07-11 17:58:43
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gagehemminger
Gage Hemminger :
It’s probably one of the last maps from that time. Before they collected them all and re-created them it’s probably I was in the floorboard. Someone wanted to hide it so it could be found later. They changed all the maps and cut off 90% of Antarctica.
2026-07-09 14:51:51
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jackfruit6695
Dhouglas :
im blocking this guy
2026-07-12 02:33:30
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gembered
Sharina🫚 :
Yeah can you ship it over to me so I can date it?
2026-07-12 09:51:52
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minx0614
Minx :
okay starlord
2026-07-12 15:48:07
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user038171401
somebody said :
You know what this means right?
2026-07-10 20:47:56
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feebs_13
MelB :
Bring me back when it’s completely unfolded!
2026-07-09 11:22:58
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amira_belkhiat
amira_belkhiat :
“Send an adult” has me hysterical 🤣
2026-07-09 09:36:37
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qiz_biz
QIZ :
This is a General Land Office wall map, “Map of the United States and Territories, with Adjacent Parts of Canada and Mexico, also Part of the West India Islands” — dated 1885 right there in the cartouche. It was issued under Commissioner William A.J. Sparks, who ran the GLO under President Cleveland starting in 1885, so that pins it precisely — this isn’t a generic “old map,” it’s from Sparks’ specific one-year tenure before he was replaced in 1887. Drafted by Charles Roeser, the GLO’s chief draughtsman, who worked on this same map series for over a decade (versions of it exist under multiple commissioners going back to the 1870s — Drummond, Burdett, Williamson, Stockslager, Groff — each just swapping the commissioner’s name and updating the survey data). The GLO put these maps out to track the extent of federal public land surveys, Indian and military reservations, railroads, canals, and land grants as the country expanded westward. It’s literally a government infrastructure/land-management document, not a decorative atlas piece. To the “Canada” question — the title itself says “Canada,” so by 1885 that’s standard. Canada became a unified confederated Dominion in 1867, so any US-published map after that point calling it “British Possessions” or “British North America” would actually be the outdated/incorrect version. If someone dates a map by that label, pre-1867 is the tell, not post-1867. Scale is 1:2,550,000-ish range for this GLO series, originally issued as a multi-sheet wall map meant to be joined into one massive reference map spanning the whole continental US. Surviving originals are rare — most listed by dealers today (Rumsey, Geographicus, Raremaps) have only a handful of institutional holdings (Yale, Princeton, Cornell, etc.), so if that’s an original in your hands and not a reproduction, it’s a genuinely uncommon piece.
2026-07-09 15:23:01
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neembles
Neembles :
Please contact a university near you or a museum. They may be able to help unravel it and preserve it!!!
2026-07-09 04:05:36
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jedijosh85
JoshuaMacintire :
No shoes, no socks, minimal vocabulary. Checks out.
2026-07-10 01:39:44
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