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George Spencer Hoffman [1875-1950]: a forgotten genius of pictorial mapping

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George Spencer Hoffman [1875-1950]: a forgotten genius of pictorial mapping

August 25, 2021August 26, 2021

George Spencer Hoffman [1875-1950] enjoyed a remarkable and fascinating life of some 74 years, one which began in the affluent suburbs of south west London….

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Estra Clark [1904-1993]: York artist and pictorial cartographer

July 19, 2018April 15, 2024

It is only now that I come to realize that Estra Clark and I share a great deal in common: first and foremost the privilege of having been born & raised in the“most famous and fayre Citie of York”, as…

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Nils Hansell [1909-1989]: A tale of canals, wonder maps & tall ships

June 20, 2018July 19, 2018

Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge for we’re coming to a town And you’ll always know your neighbor And you’ll always know your pal If you’ve ever navigated on the Erie Canal. (Words from 1905 Erie Canal song) Most people…

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Margaret Whiting Spilhaus [1889-1981]: “Doorstep-Baby” to Decorative Cartographer

June 8, 2018June 12, 2018

“Waterloo may have been won on the playing fields of Eton but the effect of teaching geography and history intelligently and in correlation in the schoolroom would be far reaching, and would contribute substantially to the avoidance of Waterloos in…

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Edward Everett Henry [1893-1961]: artist, camoufleur & cartographer

October 9, 2017July 2, 2024

Edward Everett Henry [1893-1961], sometimes known as E.Everett Henry or just plain Everett Henry, was an American artist whose career spanned most of the first half of the 20th Century and whose multi-faceted talents extended into many different spheres of…

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Alfred Edward Taylor [1887-1959]: a homage to “old time cartographers”

October 9, 2017May 12, 2025

Mention the name of early 20th Century English artist & mapmaker Alfred Edward Taylor or just plain “A E Taylor” and even the most knowledgeable of map collectors will probably look blank. Sadly Taylor’s remarkably long & successful career as…

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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…

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