COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
mediaCollectionId
RUMSEY~8~1
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Collection
true
Author:
Ryker, Harrison
author
Ryker, Harrison
Author
false
Date:
1938
date
1938
Date
false
Short Title:
54. San Francisco Aerial Views.
short_title
54. San Francisco Aerial Views.
Short Title
false
Publisher:
Harrison Ryker
publisher
Harrison Ryker
Publisher
false
Publisher Location:
Oakland
publisher_location
Oakland
Publisher Location
false
Type:
Aerial Photograph
type
Aerial Photograph
Type
false
Obj Height cm:
50
obj_height_cm
50
Obj Height cm
false
Obj Width cm:
60
obj_width_cm
60
Obj Width cm
false
Scale 1:
2,000
scale_1
2,000
Scale 1
false
Note:
One of a set of 164 spectacular, large format, sharp, black and white vertical aerial photography partially overlapping images covering San Francisco north of a line approximately between Merced Lake and Candlestick Point. Resolution generally better than one meter and much higher with high contrast features, for example the paint striping on a basketball court. Relative heights frequently discernible based on shadow cast of objects and structures. Handwritten date on index map indicates photographs taken in August, 1938. Owned by the San Francisco Public Library. (Authorship almost certainly incorrectly spelled in handwriting on index sheet as Harrison-Rikker). He married Charlotte Seward in the mid-1920s; after divorcing, he married Esther Miriam Munson in 1936 Aerial Photographer Harrison Clay (Chesley) Ryker (1898-1981) was born in Oakdale, CA. . He served in the U.S. Army for several years in Germany with the post-World War I occupational forces, and partook of educational opportunities at the University of California, Berkeley. Expanding on his hobby in photography, Mr. Ryker teamed with various pilots beginning aerial photography services out of the Oakland Airport and throughout the West. Colleagues included Lage Wernstedt of the U.S. Forest Service. He also worked with the Fairchild Aerial Camera Company (including an aerial survey of Puerto Rico) and Clyde Sunderland of Pacific Aerial Surveys. As well, he took photographs of the devastating 1923 Berkeley Fire, archived in The Bancroft Library. By 1938 Mr. Ryker was listed in business as a map publisher (see Polk's Oakland 1938 Street and Avenue Guide) based at 1924 Franklin St., Oakland. At that time, he had at least one patent pending for a stereoscope used for aerial photograph interpretation. (Note continued in Pub Note field below).
note
One of a set of 164 spectacular, large format, sharp, black and white vertical aerial photography partially overlapping images covering San Francisco north of a line approximately between Merced Lake and Candlestick Point. Resolution generally better than one meter and much higher with high contrast features, for example the paint striping on a basketball court. Relative heights frequently discernible based on shadow cast of objects and structures. Handwritten date on index map indicates photographs taken in August, 1938. Owned by the San Francisco Public Library. (Authorship almost certainly incorrectly spelled in handwriting on index sheet as Harrison-Rikker). He married Charlotte Seward in the mid-1920s; after divorcing, he married Esther Miriam Munson in 1936 Aerial Photographer Harrison Clay (Chesley) Ryker (1898-1981) was born in Oakdale, CA. . He served in the U.S. Army for several years in Germany with the post-World War I occupational forces, and partook of educational opportunities at the University of California, Berkeley. Expanding on his hobby in photography, Mr. Ryker teamed with various pilots beginning aerial photography services out of the Oakland Airport and throughout the West. Colleagues included Lage Wernstedt of the U.S. Forest Service. He also worked with the Fairchild Aerial Camera Company (including an aerial survey of Puerto Rico) and Clyde Sunderland of Pacific Aerial Surveys. As well, he took photographs of the devastating 1923 Berkeley Fire, archived in The Bancroft Library. By 1938 Mr. Ryker was listed in business as a map publisher (see Polk's Oakland 1938 Street and Avenue Guide) based at 1924 Franklin St., Oakland. At that time, he had at least one patent pending for a stereoscope used for aerial photograph interpretation. (Note continued in Pub Note field below).
Note
false
Reference:
Some of our information regarding Harrison Ryker is from personal communications with Harrison Clinton Ryker, son of Harrison Ryker. A musicologist from Bellevue, Washington, Harrison Clinton Ryker has a PhD from the University of Washington, 1971, and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, 1959. Retired in 2001 as professor of music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after 26 years of teaching. Previously taught at Hope College (4 years) and the Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls (2 years). Conductor and violinist. Published a book, New Music in the Orient (Netherlands, 1991), with a second book based on his dissertation on the composer Willem Pijper nearing completion, as well as twelve encyclopedia entries on Dutch and Asian music for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) and assorted articles.
reference
Some of our information regarding Harrison Ryker is from personal communications with Harrison Clinton Ryker, son of Harrison Ryker. A musicologist from Bellevue, Washington, Harrison Clinton Ryker has a PhD from the University of Washington, 1971, and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, 1959. Retired in 2001 as professor of music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after 26 years of teaching. Previously taught at Hope College (4 years) and the Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls (2 years). Conductor and violinist. Published a book, New Music in the Orient (Netherlands, 1991), with a second book based on his dissertation on the composer Willem Pijper nearing completion, as well as twelve encyclopedia entries on Dutch and Asian music for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) and assorted articles.
Reference
false
County:
San Francisco County (Calif.)
county
San Francisco County (Calif.)
County
false
City:
San Francisco (Calif.)
city
San Francisco (Calif.)
City
false
Full Title:
54. San Francisco Aerial Views, August, 1938. (Aerial Photographs).
full_title
54. San Francisco Aerial Views, August, 1938. (Aerial Photographs).
Full Title
false
List No:
5852.054
list_no
5852.054
List No
false
Page No:
54
page_no
54
Page No
false
Series No:
55
series_no
55
Series No
false
Publication Author:
Ryker, Harrison
publication_author
Ryker, Harrison
Publication Author
false
Pub Date:
1938
pub_date
1938
Pub Date
false
Pub Title:
San Francisco Aerial Views. 1937-1938.
pub_title
San Francisco Aerial Views. 1937-1938.
Pub Title
false
Pub Note:
(Continued from Note field above). Shortly after 1938 Ryker established his company address as Harrison C. Ryker, Inc., at 1000 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, California (relocating to east Oakland in the 1950s). He subsequently manufactured pocket and desktop stereoscopes and a vertical Sketchmaster, instruments that were extensively used by educational institutions and the military, especially during World War II. His experience in aerial photography led to further involvement in photo interpretation and cartography. An article in the journal The Timberman (1933) describes means of distinguishing individual species of forest trees on aerial photos; later applications were terrain analysis for petroleum geology and unmasking of ground camouflage during wartime. His largest product was the Wernstedt Mahan map plotter, patented in 1954, which was a standard cartographic device for its time. His instruments are in use today in libraries, air photo collections, and earth sciences departments throughout America; they are in the instrument collections of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, and the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard University has the Ryker M-11 Reflecting Stereoscope. Among his patents were the (1) the adjustable pocket stereoscope filed with the United States Patent Office: Patented December 1940. Patent No. 2,225,602, and the (2) the stereoscope filed with the United States Patent Office: Filed September 1, 1937, Serial No. 161,973; Patented January 21, 1941, Patent No. 2,229,309. Harrison Ryker pioneered research in aerial photo interpretation. His work has been noted by A. Everett Wieslander, an early (1930s 1950s) leader in the mapping of California vegetation and soils, in his Oral History produced by The Bancroft Library, and in a letter by Robert Colwell, Forestry Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
pub_note
(Continued from Note field above). Shortly after 1938 Ryker established his company address as Harrison C. Ryker, Inc., at 1000 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, California (relocating to east Oakland in the 1950s). He subsequently manufactured pocket and desktop stereoscopes and a vertical Sketchmaster, instruments that were extensively used by educational institutions and the military, especially during World War II. His experience in aerial photography led to further involvement in photo interpretation and cartography. An article in the journal The Timberman (1933) describes means of distinguishing individual species of forest trees on aerial photos; later applications were terrain analysis for petroleum geology and unmasking of ground camouflage during wartime. His largest product was the Wernstedt Mahan map plotter, patented in 1954, which was a standard cartographic device for its time. His instruments are in use today in libraries, air photo collections, and earth sciences departments throughout America; they are in the instrument collections of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, and the Institute of Geographical Exploration at Harvard University has the Ryker M-11 Reflecting Stereoscope. Among his patents were the (1) the adjustable pocket stereoscope filed with the United States Patent Office: Patented December 1940. Patent No. 2,225,602, and the (2) the stereoscope filed with the United States Patent Office: Filed September 1, 1937, Serial No. 161,973; Patented January 21, 1941, Patent No. 2,229,309. Harrison Ryker pioneered research in aerial photo interpretation. His work has been noted by A. Everett Wieslander, an early (1930s 1950s) leader in the mapping of California vegetation and soils, in his Oral History produced by The Bancroft Library, and in a letter by Robert Colwell, Forestry Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Pub Note
false
Pub List No:
5852.000
pub_list_no
5852.000
Pub List No
false
Pub Type:
Aerial Photography
pub_type
Aerial Photography
Pub Type
false
Pub Maps:
169
pub_maps
169
Pub Maps
false
Pub Height cm:
50
pub_height_cm
50
Pub Height cm
false
Pub Width cm:
60
pub_width_cm
60
Pub Width cm
false
Image No:
5852054
image_no
5852054
Image No
false
Download 1:
fullsidurl
<a href=https://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/download.pl?image=/D5005/5852054.sid target=_blank>Full Image Download in MrSID Format</a>
Download 1
false
Download 2:
mrsidsoftwareurl
<a href="https://www.extensis.com/support/geoviewer-9" target="_blank">GeoViewer for JP2 and SID files</a>
Download 2
false
Authors:
Ryker, Harrison
author_thumbnail_label
Ryker, Harrison
Authors
false