THE LIVING LIBRARY / WORLD INVESTIGATION / PUBLIC OBSERVATORY

Trace the record. See the connections.

Rotate the globe, move into the flat world map, follow the source-linked documentary trail, and inspect each source family before drawing conclusions. Locations are geographic references, not allegations about activity at those coordinates.

41original substantive
Atlas chapters preserved

46Documentary placements

15Regional gateways

40Source families

01Reported arrival

02Institutional links

The evidence globeNatural Earth public-domain coastlines · documentary locations approximate

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Connections

Globe / source geography

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LIVE SOURCE INSPECTOR

What does this location establish?

Each pin links to a document family or separate regional investigation. Authentication status remains explicit.

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Use the globe, the map or the searchable list below. A reused source counts once even if mapped in several places.

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Year provenanceSelect a record to review chronology

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Location basisApproximate geographic marker

Original page images are not universally authenticated. Source-host links and underlying claims require individual verification.

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RESEARCH BY RECORD

The documentary index

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Indexed year lens · All years

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INDEPENDENCE TEST

Compare two records

Select up to two documentary records to see whether they share a source family. Matching source IDs mean reuse, not independent corroboration.

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SOURCE DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS

Document-family crosswalk

Checking source independence…

Each document family is counted once even when indexed at several places. Source-host categories do not authenticate original pages, and multiple family identifiers do not by themselves establish independent corroboration. Select a family to inspect every mapped placement and its original source warnings.

How to read the map. The map records documentary associations with places; it is not a record of where individuals traveled unless the underlying source independently establishes a particular journey. The year filter uses the canonical index-year field; event dates, document dates, later findings and publication dates are not interchangeable and must be checked individually in the cited records. The single Paris–Teterboro line represents an official reported arrival, not independent aircraft tracking; institutional lines are legal connections only. This public observatory displays newly sourced Natural Earth 1:110m public-domain coastline geometry. The preserved original Atlas's inherited geometry has separate provenance and rights still under review. Made with Natural Earth: source and terms. Map and image provenance · Authentication register · Open research exceptions.