Carl I. Wheat Notes and Maps
Author | : Carl Irving Wheat |
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Genre | : California |
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Author | : Carl Irving Wheat |
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Genre | : California |
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Author | : Carl Irving Wheat |
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Materials concerning the publication of Wheat's books (primarily on California history); his association with the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs; his interests in fine printing, books and antiques. A few papers concerning his law firm included. Contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts for publication, clippings, maps, and subject files.
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Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Archives |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Walter William Ristow |
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Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Richard V. Francaviglia |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2005-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0874176409 |
The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin gradually emerged from its “cartographic silence” as terra incognita and how this fascinating process both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia’s interdisciplinary account of the mapping of the Great Basin combines a chronicle of the exploration of the region with a history of the art and science of cartography and of the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which maps are created. It also offers a compelling, wide-ranging discussion that combines a description of the daunting physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and through the medium of maps. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin continues Francaviglia’s insightful, richly nuanced meditation on the Great Basin landscape that began in Believing in Place.
Author | : Susan Schulten |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226740684 |
All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.
Author | : Miles Harvey |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2010-10-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 030776656X |
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.
Author | : Mark Monmonier |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 1941 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022615212X |
For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society—and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.
Author | : William Wyckoff |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300071184 |
Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts--these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment. Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.