Four more interesting cartographic ballads.---------Johnnie ------------------------------------------------ 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 -------------------------------------------------- [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 ------------------------------------------------------ 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.... Vbob = Bob VENNERBECK = Robert Fahlquist WENNERBACK = <[log in to unmask]> 2 College Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903-2784 USA (401) 454-6236 ------------------------------------------------- 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! wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww "" Ted Samsel ([log in to unmask]) "" "" or ([log in to unmask]) "" || or ([log in to unmask]) || ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't you feel more like you do now than you did before?" wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Personal opinion or observation only......