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Sources Bill Broyles (bio) The Ives Collection The basic resource is the Ronald L. Ives Collection, MS 0983, at the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson. Following Ronald's death, friend Arnold Hudson delivered 19 file cabinets to the historical society in May 1982. The quantity surpassed 100 cubic feet of boxed items in addition to materials in file cabinets. About three-fourths of the paper material [End Page 418] was deaccessed as redundant or irrelevant, leaving about 26.5 cubic feet in 26 boxes. Ives's technical publications are found in boxes 1–17 and his miscellaneous publications in boxes 18–21. Correspondence A–F is in box 22, G–M in box 23, N–U in box 24, and the rest in box 25. His financial and legal documents are in box 26. His maps, both ones he drew and those he gathered, were assigned to the society's map cases to improve preservation and access. His photo albums are stored separately and as of 2015 have not been fully catalogued. A guide to the collection is available at the historical society. Master archivist Roger Myers, currently with the University of Arizona Special Collections Library, worked six months to curate the collection. Ives's books were given to the historical society, but many of them were sold because they duplicated volumes already in the society's collection. One mystery remains: Why are no Ives field books or notebooks in the collection? Or, how did he record his field and research notes? Ives Interviews Ronald L. Ives with James W. Byrkit, October 10, 1979; November 2, 1979; February 27, 1981. In the author's collection. Ronald L. Ives with Nancy C. Veronda, April 21, 1975; April 28, 1975; May 5, 1975. Nancy C. Veronda Collection, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. Copies in the author's collection. Interviews with Bill Broyles Wallace Akin, July 24, 1985. By phone. Agnes M. Allen, April 7, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. Thomas F. Barton, April 19, 1985. By phone. Helen Beck, June 28, 1985. By phone. Thomas W. Beck, circa June 1985. By phone. Graydon Lennis "Lynn" Berlin, June 14, 1985. By phone. Barbara (Ives) Beyer, December 15, 1984; April 16, 1985. By phone. Jean-David Beyer, April 3, 1985. By phone. Ted Brown, April 14, 1985. Tape he provided. [End Page 419] Don Bufkin, December 17, 1984. Tucson, Arizona. Fr. Ernest J. Burrus, March 30, 1985. By phone. James Byrkit, April 7, 1984; March 25, 1985. Flagstaff, Arizona. Harold T. "Hal" Coss, June 11 or 12, 1985. Tucson, Arizona. Augustus L. "Gus" Cotera, May 13, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. Al J. Driscoll, April 23, 1985. Camp Verde, Arizona. Spencer Duckworth, June 12, 1985. By phone. John Duncklee, June 11, 1985. By phone. Robert Fawls, June 27, 1985. By phone. Fred Fennell, May 13, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. Bernard Fontana, September 24, 1984. Tucson, Arizona. Virgil Gillenwater, April 22, 1985. By phone. William B. "Bill" Griffen, April 23, 1985. Flagstaff, Arizona. Tom Hanlon, circa June 1985. Calspan in Buffalo: materials sent, per Tom Beck. Julian Hayden, September 21, 1984; April 9, 1985. Tucson, Arizona. Harwood Hinton, April 16, 1985. Tucson, Arizona. Charles A. Hoffman, April 22, 1985. Flagstaff, Arizona. Wilton "Bill" Hoy, April 16, 1985. By phone. Arnold and Arlene Hudson, April 22, 1985. Flagstaff, Arizona. Carleen Maley Hutchins, June 7, 1985. By phone, and self-recorded tape she provided. Jane Ivancovich, October 22, 1984. Tucson, Arizona. Kenneth Ives, January 5, 1985. By phone. George M. Kohler, April 13, 1985. By phone. Cliff Kramer, May 3, 1985. By phone. Douglas Longwell, April 19, 1985. By phone. Anne Grinnell Lynn, March 27, 1985. By phone. Marina Mazón, April 19, 1987. Ajo, Arizona. Fr. Kieran McCarty, April 16, 1985. Tucson, Arizona. Dennis Mitchell, June 12, 1985. By phone. William Perkins, June 16, 1985. By phone. [End Page 420] Patricia "Pat" Pfohl, July 1, 1985. By phone. A. Dean Pickett, May 14, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. Fr. Charles W. Polzer, October 26, 1984. Tucson, Arizona. Sheriff Joe Richards, May 14, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. William "Bill" Robinson, circa 1985. By phone. Howard "Sandy" Salisbury, April 7, 1984. Flagstaff, Arizona. Jim Sandberg, June 12, 1985. By phone. Gordon "Scotty" Snow, April 10, 1985...

The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America: Million-Scale Mapping between the Wars

ABSTRACT The 1:1 million Map of Hispanic America, compiled at the American Geographical Society's New York headquarters between the First and Second World Wars, has been seen as a landmark in twentieth-century cartography. In this essay we re-evaluate the Hispanic Map as a technical and scholarly project and re-assess its wider significance for the history of twentieth-century topographic mapping in the light of the cultural and political factors that shaped its development. When finally completed in 1945, the Hispanic Map was rightly judged an unsurpassed scientific achievement and a major work of art. But it was already out of date, superseded by newer cartographic technologies, particularly aerial survey and reconnaissance, that had removed the need for the kind of meticulous and painstaking compilation that the Hispanic Map exemplified.

An Analysis Of The Miller Oblated Stereographic Projection

The Miller oblated stereographic projection derives from the stereographic projection by a stretching of the graticule, and is the basis for the Old World sheets of the American Geographical Society's Map of the World. It is shown that it maps the sphere onto a Riemann surface of three sheets, not onto a plane; thus each point on a flat representation of the Miller projection stands for exactly three points of the sphere. In order to remove this cartographically objectionable feature we must concede the existence of a region near the antipodes which cannot be mapped because it occupies the lower two sheets of the Riemann surface. The projection has a pair of previously-unnoticed singularities, on either the equator or the central meridian, at which the scale is zero. As the graticule is stretched these singularities, with their surrounding bubbles of reduced scale, move closer to the centre of the map. Eventually this spoils the main useful property of the projection, which is that lines of equal scale distortion are oval near to the centre and not circular as in the stereographic projection. La projection stéréographique aplatie de Miller est dérivée de la projection stéréographique dont on aurait étiré le carroyage. Cette projection est utilisée sur les feuilles de l'hémisphère oriental de la carte du monde de l'American Geographical Society. On montre que la sphère n'est pas cartographiée sur un plan, mais bien sur une surface de Riemann de trois feuilles. Ainsi utilisée, chaque point de la projection de Miller correspond exactement a trois points de la sphère. Pour éliminer ce trait inacceptable en cartographie, il faut supposer qu'il y a près des antipodes une région qui ne peut être représentée parce qu'elle occupe les deux feuilles inférieures de la surface de Riemann. La projection possède deux caractéristiques qu'on n'avait pas remarqué avant. En effet, l'échelle est nulle tant a l'équateur qu'au méridien du centre. Le carroyage étant étiré, ces points et leurs zones avoisinantes dont l'échelle se trouve réduite, se rapprochent du centre de la carte. Passé un point, est gachée la principale propriété de la projection qui veut que les lignes d'égale distorsion d'échelle soient ovales prés du centre et non pas circulaires comme sur les projections stéréographiques.

Re-Appreciation of Ino's Maps of Japan

In January 1967, the Hydrographic Department announced, at a meeting of the Institute of Navigation, a number of proposed changes in the design of Admiralty Charts. The major change then proposed was the introduction of one additional colour printing, a yellow or buff land tint which, when combined with the blue shallowwater tint, would provide a distinctive tint for the inter-tidal drying areas. Since then, the Hydrographic Department has decided to adopt the metric system. The first of the new metric charts, in the new style, has now reached the Society's Map Room; it is chart No. 3105, published 29 March 1968. On this new metric chart depths are given in metres (under ten metres in metres and decimetres) and the familiar fathom lines have been replaced by bathymetric contours at 2, 5, 10, 20, 30 and 50 metres. For further emphasis, areas less than 5 metres in depth are tinted light blue, and the 10-metre contour carries a light blue band on the shallow side. Land areas carry a buff tint, reminiscent of Spanish charts, drying areas being indicated by a greenish colour derived from overprinting the sea blue with the buff land tint. Magenta has been retained to show light flares, submarine cables, tidal diamonds and restricted areas. The charts have been generally simplified and some changes made in the letterpress. The result is a chart that is attractive to look at, easy and clear to use and easier to keep up to date. Until the new style is well known, the new metric charts will be separately listed in the Society's New Geographical Literature and Maps. R. A. Gardiner

The London Society's Map, with Its Proposals for the Improvement of London: Discussion

The London Society's Map, with Its Proposals for the Improvement of London: Discussion

The London Society's Map, with Its Proposals for the Improvement of London

The London Society's Map, with Its Proposals for the Improvement of London