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“To the Boy with A Country, Dan Wallingford”: Daniel Kirkwood Wallingford [1890-1964], mapmaker & acclaimed young patriot of the Spanish-American War, 1898

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“To the Boy with A Country, Dan Wallingford”: Daniel Kirkwood Wallingford [1890-1964], mapmaker & acclaimed young patriot of the Spanish-American War, 1898

January 7, 2017January 17, 2017

At about 9.40pm on the evening of 15th February 1898, the United States battleship Maine, anchored quietly in Havana Harbour, suffered a catastrophic explosion, possibly as a result of a mine. It tore out the ship’s keel causing her to…

US Comic Maps & the Prohibition era, 1920-1933 – Part 1: Isle of Pleasure

October 2, 2015March 14, 2018

Henry J Lawrence’s Map of the Isle of Pleasure [1931] As noted on the introductory flyleaf of Edward Behr’s splendid 1997 study, Prohibition – The Thirteen Years that changed America: On 16th January 1920, at the stroke of midnight, America…

1854: Clipping the Russian Bear’s Claws – “Rock & Droll” – The Comic Map of Europe is born…..

June 9, 2015March 30, 2017

Strolling around the London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society last weekend, I was delighted to have drawn to my attention a mid-19th Century Comic map of Europe which, to my great surprise, I had never seen nor encountered…

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