Postal History Map Of The United States

I mentioned this in another thread, so thought I should post it for your viewing pleasure.

I showed something a bit different at the last Balpex, Nojex, and Garfield-Perry shows. Changed a bit for each showing. This is a draft of the exhibit (3 frames) as I had it in the frames at the Collectors Club of NY. Unfortunately, didn't take a photo at Garfield-Perry of the current iteration.

One cover for each of the 50 states plus D.C. (plus an extra one in the cartouche)

An on-line version (that's a bit different) can be played with at http://states.cgpostal.com

Enjoy
Chip

OOPS - had the wrong photo. Changed it.

Hope to show it next in Hartford at the GASS (Great American Stamp Show) in August. If there is a GASS in August).

Chip, that's a really neat and pretty original exhibit.

I like the visual that you create in the frames with how you lay out your pages.

There are a lot of really nice covers in there. Kelley's Island is always a favorite, but you have a really nice selection.

One big challenge I see in this is that its hard to find really early covers from some states - Alaska, for example.

I'm sorry I missed that Collectors Club meeting, I would love to have seen these.

That's pretty cool, Chipg. People are so creative.

Jack Kelley

Really cool!!

Love it. You have some wonderful covers displayed in a very interesting way.

Thank you. (I did remove the extra line from when I moved Alaska farther north).

Always looking to improve it, but there are a few states that are kind of place holders for now. Will never be "done." Or so I hope.

C.

A true masterpiece, chipg.

And you have just given me an idea on what I can potentially do with my Prexie 3c cover collection!

Just curious - is there an underlying theme that links all the covers together?

Morning Chipg and all,

Great contribution to digital exhibiting. Technical question. Do you use drop downs or hyperlinks or what to create your detail pages? I am exploring working on a digital exhibiting program but by no means am I a programmer. See thread down board for discussion.

For the online version, I bought the map code from here:

https://preview.codecanyon.net/item...4.1567630088

Only used some of the functionality, but I need to keep things simple.
If I try to learn too much, my brain will get full.

This is really good with the online version, since I see that easily allows you to list as many covers as you want, per state. The frame exhibit seems tougher to do that with.

I meant to add, that this approach to collecting is somewhat similar to what I'm still looking for, for myself. Specifically, a collecting focus that allows me to have a broad loosely bound subject, which does not limit too specifically what I can buy, collect or study.

Right now, I'm looking mostly at stamped postal history from 1847-1861, but I'd prefer to include stampless, and go back a little earlier still. This way, as with your subject matter, I can study western postal history, transatlantic mail, inland waterways, and so forth, but with some over-arcing subject that ties it all together.