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Series I: Map Projects Identified by Richard Edes Harrison, 1934-1956 (continued)
FOLDER 177 South Atlantic U.S., Fortune
FOLDER 178 Dollars vs. Pounds, Life, October 1949
FOLDER 179 USSR's First Atom Bomb, Life, October 1949
FOLDER 180 Communist Fastness, Fortune, February 1950
“World War II is over but now we have the cold war and it cannot be ignored. This is a handy view to demonstrate the relations of Europe and Northern Asia to North America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Approximately three-quarters of the land area in this view is U.S.S.R. territory. The purpose here is to show in perspective the Russian relations to the rest of Europe, Asia and, most important, to North America, the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans. Fortune, February 1950.”
FOLDER 181 N.A. Looks to Eurasia, Fortune
FOLDER 182 Yale, Endpapers
FOLDER 183 Chile, General Drafting
FOLDER 184 Layout (Lowenstein), Life, February 1950
FOLDER 185 Globes, General Drafting, March 1950
FOLDER 186 Europe, General Drafting, March 1950
FOLDER 187 Oilways Series (6 maps), General Drafting, 1950
FOLDER 188 Cookie House, Mcalls, April 1950
FOLDER 189 Medal design, First Geographic Congress, May 1950
FOLDER 190 John Fischer
FOLDER 191 Photo History World, Life, War II October 1950
SEE ALSO: Part I. 96.
FOLDER 192 Australia, Fortune, September 1950
“Australia, almost totally neglected in Look at the World, at last gets noticed. It is by far the flattest of the continents and not much of interest to a depicter of mountains. Notice the contrast of New Guinea with its 16,000 foot mountains.” SEE ASLO: Part II. [16].
FOLDER 193 Korea, Life, July 1950
FOLDER 194 St. Lawrence, Fortune, August 1950
FOLDER 195 U.S. Foreign Aid, Fortune, January 1951
FOLDER 196 Mexico, General Drafting, January 1951
FOLDER 197 Setback in Iran, (Reprint of S.E. to Armageddon), Fortune, January 1951
SEE ALSO: Part I. 82.
FOLDER 198 Soviet Transport, Fortune, March 1951
FOLDER 199 Sketch for Mural, American Airlines, May 1951
FOLDER 200 Middle East, Fortune, August 1951
FOLDER 201 Hachures U.S., General Drafting, July 1951
FOLDER 202 One World One War, Revision 83, Time, July 1951
FOLDER 203 Asia, Life, December 28, 1951
FOLDER 204 Spain, Fortune, November 1951
FOLDER 204a Center of Soviet Aspirations, Fortune, November 1951
FOLDER 205 U.S. Commitment (IWIW rev), Fortune, January 1952
FOLDER 206 Soviet Transportation (Rev. 198), Life, December 1951
FOLDER 207 Carribean Inserts, General Drafting, January 1952
FOLDER 208 Colombia Lamp, General Drafting, February 1952
FOLDER 209 Sketch for London Mural, Time, February 1952
FOLDER 210 Finland Forever, Harcourt Brace, March 1952
FOLDER 211 S.E. Asia, Mut. Sec. Agency, February - May 1952
FOLDER 212 Missouri, Life, April 1952
FOLDER 213 Europe, Ginn, May 1952
FOLDER 214 Asia, Ginn, May 1952
FOLDER 215 Canada, Fortune, July 1952
“The last of the Fortune perspectives and one my favorites.”
FOLDER 216 Rev. 56, Keogh, September 1952
FOLDER [217] (empty)
FOLDER 218 Oceans, Life, December 1952
“The Atlantic Ocean Bottom. A Northeast View from Panama Life. February 9, 1953. This a very early (perhaps first) attempt to render the ocean bottom in perspective. Note that the latitude and longitude lines are white on the ocean surface and they are projected in blue onto the bottom thus giving a profile of the topography. This was a first.” SEE ALSO: Part IV. [10]
FOLDER 219 Southern Lands, Ginn, June 1953
FOLDER 220 Saturday Review of Literature, January 1953
FOLDER [221] (empty)
FOLDER 222 Africa, Life, March 1953
SEE ALSO: Part IV. [11]
FOLDER 223 Half Globe Atmosphere Story, Life, April 1953
FOLDER 224 Orthos Atlantic & Pacific, Viking, May 1953
FOLDER 225 Central America, W.P. Colton & Co., May 1953
FOLDER 226 Atmosphere, Life, June 1953
FOLDER 227 Desert, Life, March 1954
FOLDER 228 Globe, Coca Cola Export Co., October 1953
FOLDER 229 Germany, Life, April 1954
FOLDER 230 American Bible Society, April 1954
FOLDER 231 Sketch for Map of USSR, Life, April 1954
FOLDER 232 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 1954
FOLDER 233 Gloucester House, August 1954
FOLDER 234 Red Europe & the U.S., Life, September 1954
FOLDER 235 Northwest Passage, Life, October 1954
FOLDER [236] (empty)
FOLDER [237] (empty)
FOLDER 238 American Bible Society, September 1955
FOLDER 239 Line Drawing, Dubois, February 1956
FOLDER 240 Sketch of New Bedford, J.T. Bradwell, September 1956
FOLDER 241 Here is the Far North, Endpapers, October 1956
FOLDER 242 Twilight Projections, CBS, December 1956
FOLDER 243 Golf Course, Sports Illustrated
FOLDER 244 Book IV, Ginn, December 1956
Series II: Map Projects not Listed by Richard Edes Harrison, 1932-1980
The following 75 projects were not included by R.E. Harrison in his numbered list of projects, although many of them appeared in his card file of works. The projects are arranged in chronological order, followed by a group of undated materials. The undated materials represent work that extended over a long period of Time, Such as Ginn Geographies and Nystrom maps.
Items are listed in the following manner: unit title, publication title and date of publication
FOLDER [1] The U.S. Election Prediction, Time, October 1932
FOLDER [2] An Aerial View of New York City, Herald Square Hotel, 1932
“This rather doubtful contribution to cartography is important because it was my first perspective and the progenitor many global views. Copies were distributed to out-of-state motorists at the entrance to tunnels and bridges. Note the hand lettering throughout.”
FOLDER [3] Technical and Other Illustrations, Fortune, 1932-1936
FOLDER [4] Sketches, Time, 1933-1940
FOLDER [5] Original Mounted Drawing, Time, 1933-1940
FOLDER [6] Bottle-Making Machine, Fortune, July 1933
FOLDER [7] Thompson Machine Gun, Fortune, August 1934
FOLDER [8] Technicolor Camera, Fortune, October 1934
FOLDER [9] Peter II's Yugoslavia, Time, October 1934
FOLDER [10] Fish, Fortune, April 1935
FOLDER [11] Kimberly Mine, Fortune, April 1935
FOLDER [12] March of Time, Late 1930s
FOLDER [13] Autogiro, Fortune, May 1935
FOLDER [14] Traffic Cloverleaf, Fortune, August 1936
FOLDER [15] Minicam Mechanics, Fortune, October 1936
FOLDER [16] Wire Photo, Dayton Daily News, May 1937
FOLDER [17] Wall St., Fortune, June 1937
FOLDER [18] Foundrinier Paper Machine, Fortune, October 1937
FOLDER [19] Paris Exposition 1937
FOLDER [20] Consumer Cooperatives, Fortune, 1937
FOLDER [21] Westinghouse Air Brake, Fortune, 1937
FOLDER [22] Original Mounted Drawings, Time, 1933-1940
FOLDER [23] BBC Broadcast, September 1943
FOLDER [24] Nomograph as an Instrument for Map Making,Geographical Review, October 1943
FOLDER [25] Ginn Geographies, 1943-1970
FOLDER [26] U.S. Perspective Atlas, Fortune, 1949
“Sketches + other material for an Atlas to follow and supplement ‘Look at the World’ which was a wartime effort. This would cover the US thoroughly as well as the previously neglected areas like South America, Africa and Australia. Alas, the Fortune editors (new) had no interest in maps and the project the died after two maps; ‘Pacific Watershed’ and ‘New England’ Peccato! 2-12-91 REH”
FOLDER [27] Map Experiment 1950
FOLDER [28] North Atlantic Base, Life, February 1950
FOLDER [29] Gray Background Experiment, 1952-1953
“These materials were originally grouped together by Mr. Harrison in a small envelope labeled, Gray Background,Experiment with Gray Background and Gray board Experiment.”
FOLDER [30] The World We Live In, Life, 1953
FOLDER [31] The GPE Producing Companies, General Precision Equipment Corporation, 1954
FOLDER [32] Africa and South America, 1955
FOLDER [33] Bradley, World Geography, 1956-1963
SEE ALSO: Part I. 203.
FOLDER [34] Indonesia and Eastern Hemisphere, July 1957
FOLDER [35] Battle for the Atlantic, Random House, 1958
FOLDER [36] Newly Discovered World Beneath the Waves, Fortune, November 1959
SEE ALSO: Part II. [24]
FOLDER [37] Cornelius Ryan The Longest Day, Endpapers, 1959
FOLDER [38] Book IV, Ginn Geographies, 1960
FOLDER [39] Nystrom, 1960-1976
FOLDER [40] Floor of the World Ocean, Annals, AAG, 1961
SEE ALSO: Part II. [21]
FOLDER [41] Reviews of Atlases, Saturday Review, March 1962
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