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1924 United States Naval Academy map

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Original – The United States Naval Academy is a four-year coed federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland. The academy was founded in 1845, and educates officers for commissioning into the United States Navy. In 1924, several facilities existed on the campus that have since been replaced. Noticeable differences include the presence of Thompson Stadium, and the absence of Ingram Field, the Academy's present track and field stadium.

Reason: This is a high-quality scan of a public domain map, and I feel that it has good EV
Articles in which this image appears: Bancroft Hall, United States Naval Academy, United States Naval Academy Cemetery
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps
Creator: C.E. Miller, surveyor, edited by Awardgive

Support as nominator --Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 01:38, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Always liked the look and feel of maps of this era, and this has loads of detail. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support It has historical value and the scan quality is quite good. It's fascinating to look at old maps. dllu (t,c) 11:39, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the left edge is not entirely vertical. Is it the case in the original or distortion introduced by the scan? If the latter, I will revoke my support. dllu (t,c) 11:42, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that this is part of the original map. Observing the map, it is obvious that the left edge is not entirely vertical, but looking closer, several of the lines in the grid following the left edge are also not perfectly vertical. However, the lines progressively become more straight. If you look at the map closely, you will be able to see that, for example, the horizontal line separating A and B in the top right corner dips (for the lack of a better word) before intersecting the line between 30 and 31, and then continues in a slight diagonal way before ending. Remember, this map was made nearly 90 years ago, and was drawn by hand, so mistakes were likely very easy to make. Awardgive, the editor with the msitaken name. 19:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds reasonable. Having done a tiny bit of drafting by hand, I know how easy it is to make such mistakes. I maintain my support then :) dllu (t,c) 20:02, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support Very well done for its age :) TechFilmer (talk) 12:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mediran (t • c) 05:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:1924 Map of US Naval Academy.png --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:06, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]