Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
A Smithsonian Institution serial of miscellaneous scientific collections, published in Washington in 1862 for a scholarly and scientific readership. The pictures are plain maps and printed diagrams: two tables of place names in dense columns, a shaded map of Latin American habitats with a key, and the Smithsonian seal with its globe and motto. A designer might take from them the clean rules, small caps labelling and muted grey tints typical of 19th-century scientific cartography and institutional print.
