1767-1848.
Thackara was eight months old when he and his parents came to Philadelphia from England. He apprenticed with Robert Scott and James Trenchard as an engraver from 1786 to 1789. In 1790 he married James Trenchard's sister Hannah. Thackara was curator for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1816 to 1828, and he is listed as an engraver in the Philadelphia City Directories from 1791 to 1833. His partnership with John Vallance is listed in the 1794 City Directory. He and his son William formed the firm of Thackara and Son in 1832. Thackara was elected Commissioner of the District of Southwark Philadelphia in 1797, and served as clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1807 to 1810.
Washington Map Society.
1655-1694.
Direktör för lantmäteriet, tog initiativet till den första svenska Generalkartan.
At the age of 28, appointed director (later director-general) for the National Land Survey. Offices were a room at the royal palace, 'but in autumn, winter and spring, maps never could be stored there because of the moisture, snow and rain that drift in through the leaky walls'. Wrote poetry with same success - 200 years later the works were deemed 'currently unpalatable'. In the early 1690s worked on Stockholm's Outer archipelago, until then poorly represented on charts. For security reasons, the lise of maps was restricted. His maps first round real use a hundred years later as underpinning for Sweden's Marine Atlas (Sveriges Sjöatlas).
Bland arbeten.
Sveriges Sjöatlas.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
REINECKE, JOHANN CHRISTOPH MATTHIAS.
1768-1818. Född i Halberstadt, död i Coburg.
Tysk lärare och kartograf. 1804 var han privatlärare i Eisenach, därefter professor och från 1806 direktör vid Gymnasium Casimirianum. Han ritade en rad kartor som bl.a. blev upptagna i 'Allgemeines Hand-Atlas', utgiven av A.C. Gaspari i Weimar 1821.
Bland arbeten.
Allgemeines Hand-Atlas.
Phillips - Thieme-Becker.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
von Michelsonen - Tyskland ca 1800.
