Silver Shorts

Take a listen as Spencer Hunt from Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explains the origin of modern day road traveling.

Check out the Geographicus website here: geographicus.com

Featuring Spencer Hunt from Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

Produced by Cory Choy, Tom Fama, and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Luke Allen and El Buru

Sound by Silver Sound

Discover the hidden history beneath the streets of San Francisco in this episode of CartoCuriosity, where Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps and Michael Jennings of Neatline Antique Maps examine a unique 1850 manuscript map documenting the city's legendary buried ships. Created during the height of the California Gold Rush, this extraordinary map captures the explosive growth of early San Francisco, revealing its original shoreline, Central Wharf, and abandoned vessels that were engulfed by land reclamation as the city expanded. Learn how one of these ships, the Arkansas, was identified through modern archaeology, and discover why this remarkable artifact offers an unparalleled window into Gold Rush history, 19th-century cartography, maritime archaeology, and the forgotten city buried beneath modern San Francisco.

Here at Silver Sound, we get to collaborate with and highlight a lot of incredible people. Today, we would like to introduce you to Mimo Magri as she tells us about her path to becoming an established, multitalented performer and some of the struggles she encountered along the way.

Featuring Mimo Magri

Produced by Cory Choy and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Mimo Magri

Sound by Silver Sound

What now? We fight, and we make them stop scrolling. We fight again, and then we make them turn it off. When they start chanting, "Hate, hate, hate. Great, great, great," it's too late.

Enjoy this precursor to a larger cyber-drama that is yet to unfold in the Silver Podcast Network and stay tuned for more Dimo updates!

Hosted by James Brown-Orleans

Written by Cory Choy

Featuring Jada Mackinnon, Dalton Miksa, and El Buru

Produced by Cory Choy, Jada Mackinnon, Dalton Miksa, and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Nico Soffiato

Sound by Silver Sound

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Spencer Hunt of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores the Storming of the Bastille, the event that ignited the French Revolution, and the unlikely entrepreneur who profited from its destruction. While the Bastille has become synonymous with the fall of royal authority, its enduring place in history owes much to Pierre-François Palloy, a Parisian entrepreneur who transformed the fortress's demolition into a public spectacle, a propaganda campaign, and a thriving business. Through broadsides, souvenirs, and relentless self-promotion, Palloy helped turn a prison into a revolutionary icon and ensured that the Bastille would live on long after it disappeared.

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores Gerard Mercator’s extraordinary first map of the North Pole—a landmark of 16th-century Arctic cartography where geographic knowledge, scientific theory, maritime legend, and pure imagination converge. Discover how the creator of the Mercator projection envisioned a vast polar maelstrom, four mysterious Arctic islands, and a magnetic mountain at the top of the world, drawing upon explorers’ reports, medieval sources, and lost works such as the Inventio Fortunata. Rare, visually striking, and historically influential, Mercator’s speculative map reveals how early cartographers transformed the unknown Arctic into a compelling geography that shaped European thought about the high Arctic for generations.

Waliek Crandall reminds us what matters most in this world with a message of love. With a very unique perspective, he tells us what his perfect world would look like.

Hosted by James Brown-Orleans

Featuring Waliek Crandall

Produced by Cory Choy and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Christian Cuciniello and Santiago Aramburu

Sound by Silver Sound

In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores the Peutinger Table, or Tabula Peutingeriana - an extraordinary 12-foot-long Roman road map that reveals how the ancient world understood geography, travel, and imperial infrastructure. Stretching from Britain across Europe, the Mediterranean, Persia, and India, this remarkable itinerary sacrifices geographic accuracy to trace the roads, cities, ports, and staging posts that connected the Roman Empire. From its possible origins in the monumental map of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa to its survival as a medieval vellum manuscript and later publication by Abraham Ortelius and Jan Jansson, the Peutinger Table offers an unparalleled window into Roman cartography and a radically different way of seeing the ancient world.

Here are five possible descriptions of who Arthur Harrison could be: The Urban Hermit, The Disenchanted Intellectual, The Suburban Surrealist, The Neo-Beat Provocateur, and The Jesus Christ of Silicon.

What matters most is up to you.

Story by Arthur Harrison and Cory Choy

Produced by Cory Choy and Christian Cuciniello

Music by Dalton Miksa

Sound by Silver Sound

World War II route maps offer an extraordinary view of the conflict through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. Created by military artists, engineers, draftsmen, and infantrymen, these rare pictorial maps trace individual units across the battlefields of Europe, recording campaigns, river crossings, command posts, engineering works, and moments of humor amid the devastation of war. Produced in small numbers as commemorative keepsakes rather than official military documents, they combine cartographic precision, firsthand testimony, illustration, and personal memory. The Geographicus WWII Route Map Archive preserves this overlooked category of wartime cartography - maps made by soldiers, for soldiers, as enduring visual records of service, survival, and shared experience.