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LJUNGGREN, SAMUEL GUSTAF.

Född 1759 23/8 på Huvudsta i S:t Pers sn (Sthlm), död 1836 5/9 på Katrinelund i Lindesbergs sn (Ör.).
Lantmätare. Gravör. Son av kronobefallningsmannen Samuel Johan L, och Ingrid Margareta Vallberg. Student vid Uppsala universitet 1777. Avlade lantmäteriexamen 1783. Förste lantmätare i Örebro län 1802-34.
Bland arbeten.
Karta över Porla källa, 1815.


Hultmark, 1944.

Roggeveen, Arent.

fl. 1665-79.
Roggeveen was a land surveyor and mathematician by profession, working in Middelburg where the Dutch East and West India Companies maintained collections of hydrographic manuscripts and charts, including Spanish portulans of the West Indies. No doubt through contacts there Roggeveen became interested in navigation and he compiled a pilot book of largescale charts of the West Indies and parts of the American coasts, with a second volume of the coasts of West Africa. These were the first such charts printed in Holland.

HAGELSTAM, OTTO JULIUS.

1784-1870. Född i Nagu socken, Åbo och Björneborgs län, Finland, död i Stockholm.
Finsk-svensk officer och kartograf. Son till kaptenen Gabriel August Hagelberg och Anna Lovisa Qvick; u.ä.-dotter till fältmarskalken greve Augustin Ehrensvärd. Hagelstam utmärkte sig som officer i finska kriget och i sjömätningsarbeten. 1810 utnämnd till kapten i den nyupprättade Sjömätningskåren, och avancerade senare till överste. 1814 var han den svenska regeringens kommissionär i Köpenhamn vid överlåtelsen av norska kartor och andra arkivalier rörande Norge. Initiativtagare till Väddö kanal i Roslagen. Hagelstam utarbetade ett flertal kartor över Sverige och Norge, för detta arbete adlad 1818. Som riksdagsman var han en ivrig nykterhetsförespråkare och medverkade till att brännvinsskatten lades om 1855 och att husbehovsbränningen förbjöds 1860. Medlem av Krigsvetenskapsakademin och utgivare av flera militära skrifter om Sveriges kust- och havsförsvar. Hagelstam var gift med Eva Fredrika Burenstam (1791-1877), genom vilken han ärvde Stjärnsunds slott i Askersunds landsförsamling, som han 1823 sålde till k...
Bland arbeten.
Ska artikeln hit?


Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.


Heraldischer Atlas, Tavla 18 - H. G. Ströhl 1899.

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Dudley Chase, Ernest.

Pictorial maps - maps with vignette illustrations on top of the geographical content - go back practically to the known beginning of cartographic history: Petroglyph maps dating from the Neolithic sometimes are found combining geographic features with representations of animals, people or dwellings.

Vignette insets or overlays are also found throughout the period of printed maps. But maps richly overlaid with small pictures are more commonly found from the 19th century onwards. (A notable exception is the Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus, published in Venice in 1539, which presents a depiction of Scandinavia with more than 100 small woodcut illustrations of animals, real and imagined, and of people pursuing all kinds of activities, such as hunting, fishing, skiing, etc.)

Ernest Dudley Chase was an exceptional creator of pictorial maps. Though he worked primarily as a graphic artist and businessman in the greeting card industry, Chase also designed, drew, and self-published more than 50 pictorial maps, each densely packed with detailed vignettes reflecting the areas portrayed. In this map of the United States, each state's capitol building is shown, as well as many other vignettes of buildings, famous sights (e.g. Niagra Falls, Hoover Dam) and pictures of people pursuing outdoor activities (fishing, horseback riding, panning for gold, etc.) appropriate to the particular region. In addition to the vignettes in the body of the map, there are 32 vignettes drawn in the blank areas outside the country's borders, mostly showing famous buildings, and 4 vignettes in the corners showing symbols of the country's natural bounty: a bull's head, a longhorn sheep's head, a sheaf of wheat, and a branch from a cotton plant.

Most of Chase's maps display a sense of humor. Though this map is mostly serious and respectful in its portrayal of the United States, the humor creeps in from time to time, such as the small collection of broken hearts outside of Reno, Nevada.

Since Chase published and sold his maps on his own, many of them bear his manuscript signature, as can be seen in the bottom margin, at the left, in this example.

In March, 2003 the Harvard Map Collection presented an exhibit of the pictorial maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, curated by Joseph Garver. The Boston Map Society met on the opening night, and the members were given a guided tour of the exhibit.

To see more online images of Chase's maps, click here to go to the Harvard Library online catalogue (Hollis), enter 'Ernest Dudley Chase' in the 'Search For' field, and click 'Search'. Follow the 'Internet Links' to see images for the individual maps.
Bland arbeten:
A Pictorial Map of North America 1945.
A Pictorial Map of South America 1942.

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