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Pictorial maps

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to maps in which pictures are used to note the distribution of features, including physical features, flora, fauna, settlement patterns, or other characteristics.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Annie Olmstead Peet papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS.LMEC.0002
Scope and Contents

The Annie Olmstead Peet papers consists of manuscript, pre-production and published pictorial maps produced from 1926-1969 by cartographer Annie Olmstead Peet (1888-1973) of Rochester, New York. The maps illustrate subjects such as family migrations and county, city, and town histories of New York and New England areas. It also includes miscellaneous photostats of published maps likely used as references, and three aerial photographs by Peet’s son, Olmstead Peet (1912-2003).

Dates: 1926 - 1969

John Roman papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS.LMEC.0003
Scope and Contents The John Roman papers consist of pictorial maps produced from 1984-2012 by John Roman (1950-), an American map illustrator, author, and college art professor. The collection comprises 54 items representing 30 pictorial map commissions of Roman’s illustration studio in Scituate, Massachusetts. It includes original hand-drawn ink illustrations colored with watercolor, either directly on the illustration or incorporated into the black and white map digitally; sketches; published maps; photos of...
Dates: 1984 - 2012

David Judkins Weaver papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS.LMEC.0005
Scope and Contents The David Judkins Weaver papers consist primarily of maps dated 1799-2019, bulk 1970-2019, that were created or collected by David Judkins Weaver (1951-), a cartographer and geographer in Boston, Massachusetts, who worked at various companies and Massachusetts agencies from the early use of computer cartography in the 1970s through its development and increasing adoption to prevalent method of cartography in the 2010s.The collection contains manuscript and printed maps,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970 - 2019; 1799 - 2023