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Series I: Map Projects Identified by Richard Edes Harrison, 1934-1956 (continued)
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
FOLDER [42] U.S. National Atlas, U.S. Geological Survey, 1963-1967
SEE ALSO: Part IV [12].
FOLDER [43] Progressive Proofs, United States Geological Survey January 1964
FOLDER [44] John Bill's Birds of New York, July 1964
FOLDER [45] Book 4: At Home Around the World, Ginn Geographies, June-July 1964
FOLDER [46] Redo of Floor of the World Ocean - Solving the Riddle of the Shuddering Earth, Fortune, February 1965
FOLDER [47] Birdwatching Maps, Linnaen Society, 1965
FOLDER [48] Odyssey World Atlas, General Drafting Co., 1965
FOLDER [49] Altitudes of Interest in Central Park, February 1967
FOLDER [50] Daily News Globe, April 1967
FOLDER [51] Central Park, Greensward Foundation, 1967
FOLDER [52] Maps for the "Green", January 1968
FOLDER [53] Staten Island Greenbelt: Parkway? or Trailway?, April 1968
FOLDER [54] Jamaica Bay, Park Association, October 1968
FOLDER [55] Bikeway Maps, 1968
FOLDER [56] Richmond Parkway and Alternates, March 1969
FOLDER [57] Everglades 1870-1970, Sierra Club, May 1970
FOLDER [58] Africa, December 1970
FOLDER [59] Kennedy Assassination, Clarkson Potter, 1970
Note: These materials were formerly stored in an envelope labeled by REH: Kennedy assassination maps for book by Clarkson.
FOLDER [60] Subways, 1970
FOLDER [61] Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970
FOLDER [62] Brooklyn Bridge, Parks Council, April 1971
FOLDER [63] Park Maps, 1972
FOLDER [64] Grand Central or Third Avenue, January 1973
FOLDER [65] Waterfront Park, September 1973
FOLDER [66] Plate Tectonics, Smithsonian Magazine, December 1974 - January 1976
SEE ALSO: Part IV. [13] Folder
FOLDER [67] Likaglobe, August 1975
FOLDER [68] Passage to Ararat, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, August 1975
FOLDER [69] Scientific American, 1975
FOLDER [70] Rochambeau's March, 1976
FOLDER [71] The View from Great Gull, Great Gull Island, 1976
FOLDER [72] Oregon Trail, Random House, 1978
FOLDER [73] Westchester County, 1978
FOLDER [74] A.J.
FOLDER [75] Palawan, Endpapers, 1980
Series III: Miscellaneous Map Projects
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