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Robert Laurie & James Whittl
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Composite: Netherlands.
1794
World Atlas
| Authors |
Robert Laurie & James Whittle, Kitchin, Thomas |
| Full Title |
(Composite of) A new map of the Netherlands or Low Countries, with the south part of the provinces of Holland, Utrecht, & Gelders and the whole of Zeeland. Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London. |
| List No |
2310.021 |
| Note |
Digital composite of 4 hand colored engraved maps, joined as 2 sheets. Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrated cartouche and 23 x 50 uncolored battle scene. Shows cities, boroughs, villages, castles, monasteries, forts, roads, rivers, etc. Prime meridian: Ferro. |
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Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme
Composite: Sheets 1 - 674 (G
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1893
National Atlas
| Authors |
Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme |
| Full Title |
(Composite of) Sheets 1 - 674 (Germany) |
| List No |
5820.727 |
| Note |
Composite of Sheets 1 to 674. Date estimated based on the apparent library acquisition date usually stamped on the back of the map sheet. This map series is remarkable for the level of fine detail. As a consequence, it was scanned at 800 PPI providing four times the resolution of the typical detailed map scan of 400 PPI. At least ten separate symbols for special buildings were utilized, a method enhanced by placing an abbreviation next to the symbol. Structures with special symbols include: churches, chapels, monuments, windmills, water mills, stamp mills, forester's lodges, watchtowers, ruins, forts, quarries, clay pits, lime kilns, and coke-ovens. Factories, brick works, powder magazines electric power plants, and many other important buildings are differentiated by means of abbreviation. Houses appear as black blocks, either rectangular or shaped like the ground plan of the building. Many other features are differentiated, for example there are four different qualities of roads plus bridle paths and footpaths. Vegetation is minutely classified including separate symbols for broadleaf trees, evergreens, underbrush, heather, dry meadows, wet meadows, swamps, orchards, gardens, vineyards, and parks. Relief is shown by hachures. Spot elevations are given in meters above sea level. |
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Ryker, Harrison
Composite: 1-164 San Francis
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1938
Aerial Photographs
| Authors |
Ryker, Harrison |
| Full Title |
(Composite image of) Views 1-164 San Francisco Aerial Views. 1937-1938. |
| List No |
5852.167 |
| Note |
Composite image of a set of 164 spectacular, large format, sharp, black and white vertical aerial photographs partially overlapping images covering San Francisco north of a line approximately between Merced Lake and Candlestick Point. Resolution generally better than one foot 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). |
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