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

Trinity College Medical School

Trinity College Medical School in Cabbagetown. A school for 30 years, the building was a mattress factory for decades & later adapted to townhouses in the late 1970s. Submitted by @heritagetoronto.

    Alex Maclean Howard House, The Second Mile Club

    Submitted by @heritagetoronto.

      Freret's Folly / Plessy

        First Library Building, Livermore

        FIRST LIBRARY BUILDING BUILT 1878 LIVERMORE'S FIRST FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY OCCUPIED THIS BUILDING FROM 1878 UNTIL 1911 WHEN THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY WAS BUILT. COMMEMORATED BY CITY OF LIVERMORE...

          Taddle Creek History

          Prior to colonization, Toronto was teeming with waterways that flowed through marshes & forests. Small rivers like Taddle Creek played a vital role in the lives of Indigenous peoples as...

            Big Horn Basin

            Big Horn Basin in northwest Wyoming is bound on the west by the Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains, on the south are the Wind River and Owl Creek ranges, on the north the Pryor Mountains and on the...

            • wyoming
            • big horn mountains
            • u.s. 14a
            • big horn basin

            To the Officers and Soldiers Killed

            The granite memorial text (1881): To the officers and soldiers killed or who died of wounds received in action in the territory of Montana while clearing the District of the Yellowstone of Hostile...

            • custer natio...
            • little big h...
            • nez perce
            • montana
            • native americans
            • indian wars

            HOWARD HUGHES FLYING BOAT "THE SPRUCE GOOSE"

            HISTORICAL MECHANICALENGINEERING LANDMARK HUGHES FLYING BOAT ("THE SPRUCE GOOSE")CONSTRUCTED: 1943-1946   ASSEMBLED: 1946-1947 DESIGNED AND BUILT BY HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO., THIS IS THE...

            • military
            • airplanes
            • aviation
            • oregon

            42nd Street Station/8th Avenue Line

            MTA New York City Transit 42nd Street Station/8th Avenue Line Opened 1932 Rehabilitated 2003 George E. Pataki Governor, State of New York Peter S. Katikow Chairman, MTA Lawrence G....

            • new york
            • manhattan
            • mta
            • subway
            • transit
            • 1932
            • 2003

            Ysabel Rita Bertolucci 1949 - 2012

            Ysabel Rita Bertolucci, 1949 - 2012 Librarian, colleague, and friend, Ysabel Bertolucci served Kaiser Permanente and the wider medical care community for more than thirty years. The...