Upcoming zoom talk hosted by the UK-based Charles Close Society (https://charlesclosesociety.org/) who study Ordnance Survey maps.

ONLINE TALK  (ZOOM)
The rise of Hagstrom's cartographic empire: early subway maps of New York City.
Wednesday 25 October, 7:30pm British Summer Time (= 2:30pm New York, 11:30 am Los Angeles)

Peter Lloyd will speak to us live with many map illustrations. Showing how the new subway lines were integrated into the street map. Comparison with London's early Metropoltan Railway maps, which likewise had to show cut-and-cover underground lines within a dense city. Early New York mapmakers such as Hammond and Ohman followed the Metropolitan style of overprinting. It was Hagstrom that revolutionised the cartography by re-drawing the street map around the subway. And this is surely part of the reason that Hagstrom dominated New York street maps for a half a century, and remained a strong but waning force into the 1990s.

Peter Lloyd is a professional software engineer with a long-standing passion for collecting and studying maps of underground railway systems. He has embarked on a project to document the history of the New York City subway map.  In this project he has published Vignelli: Transit Maps (RIT Press 2012) and is now working on further volumes.


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Meeting ID: 881 7689 9896
Passcode: SubwayMaps