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A Q someone who is into railway maps asked me the other day, and there is suprisingly little on this on the Web - when did mass-produced maps start to be printed in colour? They have a LNWR map of ca. 1865 prinited in 2 colours, black and red, (their lines in red, on a general rail map of the UK in black) whereas a slightly earlier map by the LNWR, 1860, was in black only. I know (from the rather brief Wikipedia article on this) that in the early, 1860s, the first Ordnance Survey 1 inch=1 mile maps were in B&W, and that the OS employed boys to colour in their maps by hand with pale paints until the 1870s. I have old atlases that likewise have been tinted by hand, around the boundaries, and then by the 1890s on they have been printed in colour, similar to today's maps, not just boundaries but full background colour. My guess was that they would have produced the black and the red components for that 1865 LNWR map separately then carefully aligned them for the final seamless map - but does anyone have a URL or article then can send me on a fuller history of when mass-printed maps (as opposed to one-off hand made book illustrations, posters etc) became properly colour-printed, not hand colourised afterwards? Dr Hillary J. Shaw Visiting Fellow - Centre for Urban Research on Austerity Department of Politics and Public Policy De Montfort University LE1 9BH http://dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/hilary-shaw/hillary-shaw.aspx www.fooddeserts.org ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1