Four more interesting cartographic ballads.---------Johnnie
 
 
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      Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:12:31 -0500 (EST)
      Thomas Mullins <[log in to unmask]>
         Cartographic Ballads
 
 
Not quite ballads but more triumphal rhapsodies are the British and
French steamship and airline maps of the 1920's and 30's, proclaiming their
empires. The trans-Atlantic map in the first-class dining room on
the Queen Mary and the giant blue-tinted French PTT map that covered one
two story wall in the main post office in Beirut were classic.  Sic
transit gloria mundi.
 
Thomas Mullins
Harvard University
 
 
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      [log in to unmask] (Iain Taylor)
         Re: Cartographic ballads
      Tue, 15 Feb 1994 08:09:58 -0500 (EST)
 
 
 The Canadian govt's Columbia Icefield map of the early 1980s I think, which
adapted Swiss hill shading techniques with N. American veg. and glacial
phenomena should be a cndiddate as should the recently disc
vered (by Me) Thompson Glacier Region of Axel Heiberg Is. by the Army Mapping
establish,ment , Ottawa, 1963.
iain taylor
 
 
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      Tue, 15 Feb 1994 09:38:35 -0500 (EST)
      Bob Vennerbeck <[log in to unmask]>
         Re: Cartographic Ballads
 
 
> I have a related question: is it possible to create a map as a SUCCESSFUL,
> INDEPENDENT work of fiction? This has been bothering me for some time, and I
>  don't have a definitive answer.
 
Independent of what?
Anyway - I thought I'd mention the stainless steel globe of _Joe-piter_ in the
fountain in Kendall Square, Boston. The sculptor, Joe Davis, chanted a
wondrous (and probably unrecorded anywhere) travelogue of it's various
mythical continents, countries and inhabitants at it's unveiling. His
signature is an archipelago....
 
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      Tue, 15 Feb 1994 12:59:27 -0500
      [log in to unmask] (Theodore B. Samsel)
         Re: Cartographic ballads
 
   Having worked for the Historic Sites and Restoration Branch of the Texas
Parks & Wildlife Dept, (in an "earlier life") I saw many of the lovely
WPA & CCC drawings of structures built by these Depression-Era orgs. Some
of them were state-of-the-art "multi-media" renditions with perspective
views of the site locations (at various times) with the 30's style/equivalent
of wind cherubs with puffy cheeks in the various quadrants of the map/dwg
sheet.
   (And some folks were trying to throw these away! "Hey, that's old stuff.)
Harrumph!
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