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Irving Geis [1908-1997]: Of Molecules and Maps

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Irving Geis [1908-1997]: Of Molecules and Maps

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019

The South Carolina backstory of one of the 20th Century’s greatest scientific illustrators, Irving Geis, unbeknown to many, an accomplished comic mapmaker who produced a series of entertaining “hysterical” maps of the State during the early 1930s…. When the renowned…

The Lindgren Brothers of Spokane, Washington and their remarkable “Hysterical Maps”

May 31, 2017March 1, 2018

The Lindgren Brothers of Spokane, Washington and their remarkable “Hysterical Maps” Mention “Hysterical Map” and most aficionados and collectors of early 20th Century pictorial maps will invariably think of the firm of Lindgren Brothers of Spokane, Washington, USA, who became…

“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…

Politics personified: Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1

March 11, 2016February 16, 2023

Fred W. Rose and Liberal & Tory serio-comic maps, 1877-1880 – Part 1 In W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan’s famous comic operetta, Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri [1882], which so cleverly lampoons the British peerage and House of…

US Comic Maps & the Prohibition Era, 1920-1933 – Part 2: Edward Gerstell McCandlish’s “Bootlegger’s Map of the United States”

October 5, 2015August 17, 2017

West Virginian-born toy maker, children’s author and cartoonist, Edward Gerstell McCandlish [1887-1946] produced one of the best-known and most widely circulated comic maps of the Prohibition era, the so-called Bootlegger’s Map of the United States. The map actually appeared in…

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…

“The one and only original Map of Breakfast Island” – Cyril Phillips’ map of “life & taste in Britain at the beginning of the 2nd Elizabethan Reign”, 1953

September 9, 2015June 27, 2018

“It is our hope that Her Majesty may live long and happily and that Her reign may be as glorious as that of her great predecessor Queen Elizabeth I. Let us hope we are witnessing the beginning of a new…

Europe in 1915 – German perspectives on the war through two sets of satirical propaganda maps

July 30, 2015January 25, 2017

Two pairs of German satirical propaganda maps of Europe published in Hamburg in 1915 Exactly one hundred years ago, at the end of July 1915, after the successes of the preceding Gorlice-Tarnow campaign and the recapture by Austrian forces of…

Temperance Hotels & Comic Maps of Scotland – amid the skirl of bagpipes, an arresting & amusing Victorian mix

May 20, 2015March 29, 2016

Philp’s Comic Maps of Scotland My last post about Leslie George Bullock [1895-1971] referenced the National Library of Scotland’s invaluable Bartholomew Archive, a unique and unrivalled record of the business history and publications of one of Edinburgh’s leading map publishers….

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