[HistMap-List] Portolan 107 (Spring 2020)

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 "THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY ISSUE 107 (SPRING 2020)
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Issue 107 (Spring 2020), consisting of 62 pages waspublished in March 2020 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and print-issue members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.

This thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, thehistory of cartography, and exploration is the largest and most-frequent journal of its kind in the Americas.   Below is information on the Spring 2020 issue recently published and mailed.   See http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm  for details on ordering the current or past issues of “The Portolan”. That link also takes the reader to the contents list of all back issuesand an index to those issues.  The focus of the society and the journalis not solely Washington; topics are widespread in scope.

ANDREW RHODES’s Ristow Prize-winning article relates how Franklin D. Roosevelt used maps to communicate strategy.  The late BERT JOHNSON’s final article describes several islands near Crete.  ROM GRIM tells the detective tale of how recovered stolen maps found their way back to rightful owners.  ROGER STEWART musesover life as a collector.  Remembered with tributes are Ken Nebenzahl, Bert Johnson and Chas Langelan.  And there is more, including four book reviews.

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 107 – Spring 2020

ARTICLES

“The Geographical President: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Used Maps to Make and Communicate Strategy”, by Andrew J. Rhodes       Ristow Winning Article 2019        

“Three Tiny Islands of Crete”, by Bert Johnson 

“In the Footsteps of the Crime: Recovering Map Masterpieces Stolen by E. Forbes Smiley”,  by Ron Grim

“Confessions of a Collector”, by Roger Stewart

 RECENT PUBLICATIONS: a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Leah Thomas.

 BOOK REVIEWS

Cartography: The Ideal and its History (Reviewer: Ron Grim)

Utah Historical Quarterly (Cartography and the Founding of Salt Lake City) (Reviewer:  Bill Ginsberg

Theodore de Bry - America: The Complete Plates 1590-1602 (Reviewer: Cassandra Farrell)

The Atlas of Boston History (Reviewer: Kris Butler)

 SHORTER ITEMS

1.    President’s Spring 2020 Letter

2.    Washington Map Society Meetings:  Spring 2020

3.    Exhibitions and Meetings

4.    Map Site Seeing

5.    Ristow Prize Competition 2020

6.    Tribute to Hubert O. (Bert) Johnson III, by Evelyn Edson

7.    Tribute to Charles (Chas) Langelan, by David Lee Ingram

8.    Tribute to Kenneth (Ken) Nebenzahl, inputs by Art Holzheimer

9.    Mount Vernon Field Trip – Photo Essay

10. Cartographic Notes

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 AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

KRIS BUTLER is the past president of the Boston Map Society.

ELIANE DOTSON is president of the Washington Map Society.
EVELYN EDSONis Professor Emerita of History at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville Virginia.  She served from 2011-2019 as the Chair of the WMS Ristow Prize Competition.

CASSANDRA BRITT FARRELL is Senior Map Archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

WILLIAM B. GINSBERG haspublished papers in academic journals and written three cartographic works: “Sea Charts of Norway, 1585-1812”, “Maps and Mapping of Norway, 1602—1855”, and “Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic, 1482—1601”. 

RON GRIM is Curator of Maps (retired), Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library.

ART HOLZHEIMER, a collector of maps since the early 1960’s, is on the steering committees of the Philip Lee Phillips Society and the Miami Map Fair. He was the sponsor from 2001-2014 of the annual David Woodward Memorial Fellowship in the History of Cartography, and since 1990 has sponsored the annual Holzheimer Maps and America Lecture series at the AGS collection in Milwaukee.

DAVID LEE INGRAM is a retired licensed land surveyor who now dabbles in the repair and restoration of antique surveying instruments and continues to study the history of surveying.

The late BERT JOHNSON had a strong interest in Mediterranean mapping.  The most prolific writer in the history of this journal, a tribute to him appears in this issue. 

ANDREW J. RHODESis the winner of the 2019 DR. WALTER RISTOW PRIZE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. Mr. Rhodes is a career civil servant who has served as an expert in Asia-Pacific affairs in a varietyof analytic, advisory, and staff positions in the government.

THOMAS SANDER is Editor of “The Portolan”.

ROGER STEWART’sinterests are generally historical maps of Africa, with special interest in miniatures of the continent and South Africa, plus maps of early travelers in the Cape of Good Hope. 

LEAH M. THOMASis Assistant Professor of English at Virginia State University in Petersburg. She earned her PhD in the interdisciplinary program Media, Art, & Text at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied the intersection between cartography and literature of the eighteenth century. 

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"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 108 is due for release in late-August 2020.

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Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society:   http://www.WashMapSociety.org   

Membership in the Society and online registration now includes access online to all current and past issues of “The Portolan.”

Current/Past Copies:Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$14.00 postpaidfor US; $17 postpaid to Canada, and $21 to other foreign addresses.  Payment is accepted in US dollars only, and may be paid via check or PayPal.  Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discountis given for orders of multiple issues. See http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm for details on ordering the current or past Portolans.

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Thomas F. Sander, Editor, 'The Portolan'
Washington Map Society
E-mail: PortolanEditor at wmsdc.org  
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