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Highways of Empire

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Highways of Empire

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018

Part I: From Drawing Board to Billboard.
The story behind the design and creation of MacDonald Gill’s 1927 Empire Marketing Board Poster, “Highways of Empire”: “Imperialism without tears”

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Scott Maps: The life & work of Alva Scott Garfield [1902-1993], 20th Century female cartographer

January 10, 2017February 24, 2018

I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find… Henry David Thoreau On Alva Scott Garfield’s amusing & colourful pictorial map of Concord, Massachusetts [c1960], much attention is given to one…

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