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Subject: Re: Fwd: artists and Gov mapping
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:58:01 -0500
From: Reed Lowrie <[log in to unmask]>
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Great idea Michael (I too may steal it sometime), and great suggestions
from Scott. You might also look at William Henry Holmes' work for
Clarence Dutton's Atlas accompanying the Tertiary History of the Grand
Canon District, which is absolutely spectacular. Wallace Stegner's book
on John Wesley Powell is great on Holmes and on the competition between
the Powell, Hayden and King/Wheeler surveys, who each tried to outdo the
other by producing more and more impressive publications.
Best,
Reed
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> Subject: RE: Fwd: artists and Gov mapping
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:21:49 -0600
> From: McEathron, Scott R <[log in to unmask]>
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> Very good idea, I think I will imitate your proposal.
> The great photographers of the western surveys: William Henry Jackson
> (1843-1942)--Hayden Survey, Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)--King/Wheeler
> Survey, John (Jack) K. Hillers (1843-1925)--Powell Survey, etc.
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> other artists:
> James Alden (1810 - 1877), U.S. Navy
> William Birch McMurtrie : West Coast artist, 1849-1859 / by Lois Tuttle
> Morris
> Seth Eastman (1808-1875), U.S. Army (illustrator to Schoolcraft)
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> Best wishes,
> Scott R. McEathron
> University of Kansas Libraries
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> From: "Michael Fry" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:39:49 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: artists and Gov mapping
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> Hi,
> My department's putting up an exhibit of US Gov't pubs that feature work
> done by future or otherwise famous artists, illustrators, etc. For
> example, we've got docs illustrated by Will Eisner, Al Capp, and Walt
> Kelly, as well as photography taken by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange on
> behalf of the gov't.
>
> Does anybody know if US Gov't-produced maps/charts have ever featured
> work--cartography, illustration, etching, etc.--done by otherwise well
> known artists? I know about James Whistler's brief Coast Survey career,
> and have several War Dep't Newsmaps that feature illustrations by Dr.
> Seuss and others (e.g.,
> http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-951:2).
>
> I know the theme's a little fuzzy, but if anybody has add'l suggestions
> or ideas, I'm all ears.
> Thanks very much.
> mf
>
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> Michael Fry
> Government Information, Maps and GIS Services
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Harvard University
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