The Measure of the Land - Printable Cartographer's Ephemera Kit - The Vestige Post Archive Collection No. 009

**The Measure of the Land**

Step into the field with *The Measure of the Land*, a vintage-inspired ephemera collection shaped by the maps, field notes, observations, and instruments of a late-19th-century cartographer and surveyor.

Filled with weathered county maps, survey records, route maps, expedition papers, handwritten correspondence, botanical observations, field notebook pages, postcards, tags, tickets, and beautifully aged background papers, this collection tells the story of a landscape being measured, mapped, and slowly understood.

You’ll also find an assortment of small details—from compass markers and survey medallions to pressed botanicals, birds, wildflowers, map fragments, and surveying tools—along with interactive pieces designed to be folded, tucked, layered, and discovered.

Created for junk journals, scrapbooks, paper crafts, memory keeping, and vintage-inspired projects, *The Measure of the Land* is an invitation to follow the rivers, mark the boundaries, take the long road, and imagine the stories waiting just beyond the edge of the map.