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San Francisco Map Fair September 15-17: Pictorial Maps Catalogue 1799-1955

 We invite you to view our pictorial maps catalogue which is a small selection of the items that we will be exhibiting at the upcoming inaugural San Francisco Map Fair, September 15-17.  

We hope you will be able to visit the Fair - click here for information about times.  There is no charge for entry on Saturday and Sunday.  However if you are not able to attend, please view the catalogue here or the more extensive listing on our website at www.oldimprints.com  

The Pictorial Maps of Fred A. Routledge  

BY CRAIG CLINTON

WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING 2016 issue of the OREGON HISTORICAL QUARTERLY and is now available online on the website of the Oregon Historical Society (click here) 

The Oregon Historical Quarterly comments "In this heavily illustrated research article, Craig Clinton documents Fred A. Routledge's career as a commercial artist through a series of pictorial maps from the 1890s through 1930s. Although "personal details relating to Routledge's life and career are quite scarce," Clinton examines a range of illustrations to tell a story of his career from early street-level illustrations for the West Shore magazine to later birds-eye views of the Pacific Northwest. Routledge's maps not only documented existing landscapes, but also his "enduring engagement with the natural world and his belief in the transformative potential of humankind." The "quality of his pictorial map," explains Clinton, "was to become a significant feature of commercial travel cartography in the 1930s and beyond.""

We will be exhibiting at the "China in Print"  

 HONG KONG RARE BOOK, PHOTOGRAPH AND MAP FAIR
香港稀有書本，古舊照片及地圖博覽會

November 18 to 20, 2016

Click here to browse items of Asian interest on our website, or contact us with requests