"THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY
ISSUE 49 (Winter 2000-2001)
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Issue 49 (Winter 2000-2001), consisting of 72 pages, including numerous
illustrated articles, was published in January 2001 and has been sent to
all subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map
Society. This issue contains the major results of research on
identification of atlases by A.J. Johnson. Also, a description of the
original mapping of the Fairfax line in Virginia and recent attempts by
surveyors to recreate the survey. Also a summary of the definitive work on
the mapping of Cuba. Also a description of the project that resulted in
the recently-published "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World."
Also a whimsical critique of recent mapping published by the US Geological
Survey and how it does not compare well with their past work. Also a
critique of and history surrounding Miles Harvey's recently published book
"The Island of Lost Maps." There are reviews of two books ("Virginia in
Maps" and "The Piri Reis Map of 1513") and one CD-ROM ("The Map Collector
Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000, Heritage Map
Museum."). And there is more. "The Portolan" is published three times per
year; issue 50 is expected to be released in May 2001.
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CONTENTS OF ISSUE 49 Winter 2000-2001
ARTICLES
"The Atlases of A. J. Johnson." By Ira S. Lourie
"Survey and Resurvey of the Fairfax Line." By David Lee Ingram
"Old Maps of Cuba." By Emilio Cueto
"The Classical Atlas Project Mapping the Greek and Roman World: Barrington
Atlas of the Greek and Roman World." By Steve Vogel.
"The New Quads Ain't What They Used to Be." By Eugene M. Scheel
"The Cartographic Community: Through a Glass, Oddly." (A Look at "The
Island of Lost Maps") By Hubert O. Johnson
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in 'The Portolan,' this is a bibliographic listing of
articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the
history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.
BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
"Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development."
(Review by Margaret B. Pritchard)
"The Piri Reis Map of 1513." (Review by Svat Soucek)
"The Map Collector Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000,
Heritage Map Museum." (Review by John W. Docktor)
SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January- May 2001.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2001 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. "Extravaganza, Indeed: The October 2000 Garrett Lectures and Texas Map
Society Meeting." By Alice Hudson and Bert Johnson
5. "The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium, October 19-22, 2000." By John W.
Docktor
6. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
7. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander (Includes a summary of the
IMCoS Annual Symposium in Iceland, September 2000)
AUTHORS OF ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
IRA S. LOURIE, a member of the Washington Map Society, is a child
psychiatrist and a collector of maps, mostly of Maryland and the Chesapeake
Bay. For the past ten years he has done major research into the maps of
Alvin J. Johnson.
DAVID LEE INGRAM, a member of the Washington Map Society, is a licensed
land surveyor in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. An active member of
several state and national professional surveyors associations, he has held
numerous positions in these organizations, including the Surveyors
Historical Society. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum
of Surveying in Lansing, Michigan.
EMILIO CUETO, a member of the Washington Map Society, is an attorney for
the Inter-American Development Bank. A native Cuban, he has been
collecting and studying Cuban maps for over 25 years, and is the author of
'Cuban Cartography: 1500-1898' in "Cuban Studies," and "Cuba in Old
Maps." This last book was a companion publication to an exhibit of Cuban
maps at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida in 1999; the exhibition
is expected to travel to the Cuban Museum in Daytona, Florida during 2001.
STEVE VOGEL is a US government cartographer. He is the secretary of the
Washington Map Society and a frequent contributor to "The Portolan."
EUGENE M. SCHEEL, a member of the Washington Map Society, has authored nine
books about Virginia history, and has research and drawn (by hand) more
than four-dozen detailed historical maps, mostly of rural Virginia, but
also of New York, New Hampshire, and the Bermuda Islands. A Phi Beta Kappa
Geography major at Clark University, he holds graduate degrees from
Georgetown University in American Literature and the University of Virginia
School of Architecture in City Planning.
HUBERT O. (BERT) JOHNSON is a past president of the Washington Map
Society. His specialty areas are maps on labels of wine bottles, and the
mapping of the eastern Mediterranean. He is a retired special agent of the
Air Force Office of Special Investigations who has an interest in both
cartographic history and security challenges of the sort described in "The
Island of Lost Maps."
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