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"THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY
ISSUE 57 (Fall 2003)
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Issue 57 (Fall 2003), consisting of 72 pages, was published in August 2003
and has been sent to all subscribers and members in good standing of the
Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.

MARGARET PRITCHARD’S article on the maps in the Colonial Williamsburg
Collection tells us about some of them but also explains the important role
maps played in the lives of the colonists and the economic and political
development of the colonies. DAN TRACHTENBERG explains how and why and map
powder horns were made, and relates how few powder horns became map powder
horns. JOHN HESSLER has spent much of his time at the Library of Congress
examining the work of the late John P. Snyder, a renowned authority on map
projections; Hessler explains how detailed research into one projection
developed by Snyder led him to unpublished papers and manuscripts and
deciphering data from Snyder’s early Texas Instruments programmable
calculators. BERT JOHNSON offers the first printed after-action report on
the June 2003 International Conference on the History of Cartography. GENE
SCHEEL relates events of the early 1940’s that led to the enlargement of
the Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. TOM SANDER summarizes a spring 2003
trip to map libraries in Croatia. HENRY WENDT relates the Quivira legend
and uses a map image on his wine of the same name. DENNIS REINHARTZ
indicates there is more than bragging involved when examining Texas
postcards. JULIE SWEETKIND-SINGER directs the reader to locations on the
Internet where four online gazetteers help locate particular features on
the globe. Three WMS members share thoughts about themselves and
maps. Six books and a Civil War map are reviewed; included is the first
review of “Petermann’s Planet.” And there is more. "The Portolan" is
published three times per year; issue 58 is due for release in December 2003.

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CONTENTS OF ISSUE 57 - Fall 2003

ARTICLES
“Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection.” By Margaret Beck Pritchard
“Map Powder Horns OR Powder Horn Maps.” By Dan Trachtenberg
“A New View of the World: John P. Snyder and the Space Oblique Mercator
Projection.” By John W. Hessler
“ICHC 2003: An After Action Report.” By Bert Johnson et al
“Quantico Expanding a U.S. Marine Corps Base.” by Eugene M. Scheel
“Croatia Returning for the Maps.” by Thomas F. Sander
“Quivira The Legend and the Wine.” By Henry Wendt
“Texas Map Postcards Revisited: Much more than Ephemera.” By Dennis Reinhartz
“Online Gazetteers” by Julie Sweetkind-Singer

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/MAP REVIEWS
“Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved” by Robin Wilson
(Reviewer: Dorothy Raphaely)
“Les Plans de Paris” by Jean Boutier (Reviewer: Ed Dahl)
“The A to Z of Antique Prints and Maps” by Donald Cresswell and Christopher
Lane (Reviewer: John Docktor)
“Mercator The Man who Mapped the Planet” by Nicholas Crane (Reviewer: Fred
Hadsel)
“Petermann’s Planet: A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings” by
Jürgen Espenhorst (Reviewer: Eric Wolf)
“Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and
Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy” by Andro Linklater (Reviewer: David Ingram)
“History Map: John Wilkes Booth Escape Route” by Kieran McAuliffe
(Reviewer: Earl McElfresh)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2003 January 2004.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2004 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. Maps from Colonial Williamsburg at the DAR Museum
5. Important Maps Gifted to the Virginia Historical Society
6. “The Peak Gift of Map Stamps to the WMS” by Paul Peak as told to
Tom Sander
7. Spotlight on the WMS Membership: Kanter, Pritchard, Whitten
8. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
9. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

AUTHORS OF ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
MARGARET BECK PRITCHARD is Curator of Prints, Maps and Wallpaper at
Colonial Williamsburg. She is co-author, with Henry G. Taliaferro, of
“Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America.”
DR. DAN TRACHTENBERG is a radiologist and avid collector in York,
Pennsylvania. He is a long-time member of the Kentucky Rifle Association,
which supports research and programs on the Kentucky rifle and powder horn.
JOHN W. HESSLER is a preservation technician in the Geography and Map
Division of the Library of Congress. He returns in Fall 2003 to Ph.D.
studies in Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; his research interest is topological graph theory and the
Reimann Mapping Theorem.
HUBERT O. (BERT) JOHNSON is the Washington Map Society’s outreach chairman
and coordinator of its involvement at the June 2003 ICHC poster
session. He will make a presentation on Joseph Roux at the Cyprus IMCoS
Symposium in October 2003.
EUGENE M. SCHEEL has written nine books about Virginia history and has
researched and drawn (by hand) more than four-dozen detailed historical
maps. He writes an historical column for the “Washington Post” and is a
frequent contributor to “The Portolan.”
THOMAS F. SANDER is past President of the Washington Map Society and editor
of its journal, “The Portolan.”
HENRY WENDT is co-proprietor, with his wife, of the Quivira Estate
Vineyards & Winery in Sonoma Valley, California. A selection from his map
collection will be on display at the Sonoma County Museum beginning in
January 2004.
DENNIS REINHARTZ is Associate Professor of Russian and East European
History at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he also teaches the
history of cartography. He is a founding Board member and past President
of the Texas Map Society.
JULIE SWEETKIND-SINGER is GIS & Map Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences
Library & Map Collections, Stanford University.
DOROTHY RAPHAELY, a map colorist and collector, thinks of herself as a
modern scribe.
EDWARD H. DAHL is the former early cartography specialist at the National
Archives of Canada.
JOHN DOCKTOR, past President of the Washington Map Society, is the
Society’s Webmaster.
FRED HADSEL is a retired U.S. Ambassador with nearly 30 years service in
Africa and on African affairs. His cartographic focus is the early maps of
Africa.
ERIC W. WOLF, twice past President of the Washington Map Society, is an
internationally-recognized authority on the history of cartography. He is
the current President of the Society for the History of Discoveries.
DAVID INGRAM is a licensed land surveyor in West Virginia, Virginia and
Maryland. He is past Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Surveyors
Historical Society and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of
Surveying in Lansing, Michigan.
EARL B. McELFRESH, co-owner of the McElfresh Map Company, produces
‘reconstruction’ maps of Civil War and other historic American battlefields
and events.
PAUL R. PEAK is a retired Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, and longtime member of
the Washington Map Society.

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