A gigantic map of all the cool plaques in the world. A project of 99% Invisible.

Owen Smith, 'An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders'

Owen Smith   An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders 1998   Ceramic mosaic   Fabricated by Peter Colombo Artistic Mosaics   Commissioned by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts...

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • sunset park
  • subway
  • nyct
  • art
  • mosaic
  • owen smith
  • 1998

Natural Gas Network in Bashkortostan

The text is in two languages, Bashkir and Russian. It says:"Был йортkа Башkортостандағы тәүге селтәр газы килгән 21.07.1953 В этот дом пришел первый сетевой газ в...

  • infrastructure
  • gas
  • resources

Nashville’s First Public School

Nashville's first pablic school, Hume School, opened here Feb. 26, 1855. A three story brick building, the school employed 12 teachers and served all grades. In 1874 high school classes were moved...

  • school
  • high school
  • nashville
  • tennessee

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965) A graduate of Hume- Fogg and Vanderbilt University, Randall Jarrell was a distinguished poet, critic, novelist, essayist, and teacher. Jarrell Joined the U.S. Army Air...

  • school
  • high school
  • vanderbilt u...
  • vanderbilt
  • university
  • nashville
  • tennessee
  • poetry

James Wilson Growden Memorial Field

GROWDEN MEMORIAL FIELDin memory of JAMES WILSON GROWDENMarch 28, 1935 - March 27, 1964FATHER - TEACHER - ATHLETE - LATHROP HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATEDIED WITH HIS TWO YOUNG SONS IN THE GREAT ALASKA...

  • fairbanks
  • alaska
  • goldpanners
  • baseball

Pulaski Bridge

CITY OF NEW YORK ROBERT F. WAGNER MAYOR JOHN CASHMORE PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN JAMES A. LUNDY PRESIDENT, BOROUGH OF QUEENS PULASKI BRIDGE 1954 DESIGNED AND SUPERVISED BY THE DEPARTMENT...

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • queens
  • greenpoint
  • long island city
  • bridge
  • robert wagner
  • john cashmore
  • james lundy

Gloria & Don LeVine

In loving memory. Gloria & Don LeVine Married 1946: Partners, Parents, Grandparents   "Those were the days..."Submitted by @lampbane

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • prospect park
  • bench

General William Booth

TO THE GLORY OF GOD   UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH   THE FOUNDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY COMMISSIONER GEORGE S. RAILTON AND SEVEN WOMEN OFFICERS UNFURLED THE FLAG OF THE SALVATION...

  • new york
  • manhattan
  • battery park
  • the battery
  • william booth
  • salvation army

Riverview Homes Association

RIVERVIEW HOMES ASSOCIATION Incorporated 1 May, 1923   One of the earliest examples of not-for- profit housing cooperatives in the United States, Riverview Homes was established and constructed...

  • new york
  • brooklyn
  • sunset park
  • finland
  • finntown
  • 1923

Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline Wetlands Project

Submitted by @Victory4Oakland.

    Kiusala

    KIUSALA   Sunset Court Association, Inc. Built 1925 Eric O. Holmgren, Architect   This building is one of more than 30 cooperative apartment buildings surrounding Sunset Park, that were either...

    • new york
    • brooklyn
    • sunset park
    • finland
    • finntown
    • 1925

    Point Emery

    POINT EMERY A small shoreline park located on northwestern edge of Emeryville, Point Emery is a popular place for kiteboarding, kayaking and paddle-boarding access to the San Francisco...

      In Vicinity of French Trading Area

      In the mid-1700s, Indians of the region met at a trading ground near this site with Frenchmen who brought them manufactured goods, sometimes including guns and ammunition — products denied them by...

      • texas
      • native americans
      • colonial history

      Archer County Copper Mines

      (1/4 mile northeast and 5 miles to the south southeast)   The civilized world first heard of copper in this area from Texas Rangers after an 1860 campaign against Comanches on the Pease River,...

      • texas
      • archer county
      • mining
      • civil war

      Dad's Corner

      The result of a 1923 oil boom, development of a town at this site included some twenty-two businesses, including a food stand operated by a man with the nickname “Dad,” which provided a name for...

      • texas
      • oil
      • boomtowns
      • ghost towns