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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 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…

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…

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