I found this artist here in the Pacific Northwest last year and meant to post some links to her work for others to look at. For me, they just hit me in the feel-good spot and I have ordered some prints for my home, and to donate for our upcoming Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon Auction that is going on during our conference this month.
Love it. I am reminded of surveyor Ferdinand V. Hayden, who created a contour map of the rocky mountains by himself climbing each peak, triangulating from peak to peak, while simultaneously hand sketching and photographing each view, 360 -
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this took about 4 summers from 1875 to 1879(?). he had several atlases compiled that are mostly stored in the Library of Congress - ive never seen these, but I have seen the one existing in Denver, and I happened to find another in the back of a main street little bookstore in Moab (no one was looking at it, it was behind glass). I had them take it out for me - it was of course a beautiful work of art, and a surprisingly accurate topographic map. I was able to find my area in Colorado which was not an official county when it was surveyed. It had a $5000 price tag. I saw it there twice, 2 years apart. may still be there. I am sure that being stored behind glass for so long, it is in very good condition.
Not only were the Hayden Atlases beautiful works of art - they introduced Congress to the West, and were instrumental in our western migration as a country. they inspired Congress to enact the first protected park called "Yelowstone", which modeled the way for all our National Parks. Congress formally named the highest peak of the Teton Range "Hayden Peak", but we commonly refer to this as "The Grand Teton".
I have a couple of 100+ year old quad sheets that I had framed.?ÿ One is the "Knoxville"?ÿ Recconnaissance Map dated 1901 reprinted in 1915.?ÿ at a scale of 1:125000.?ÿ This has Knoxville in the northwest corner and covers all the area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.?ÿ As far as I'm concerned that's where the Garden of Eden was.
The other is the "Nashville" Topographic Map dated 1903 reprinted in 1918 at a scale of 1:125000.
These are sepia colored with blue for the water features.?ÿ I'll post a picture when I can.
My name is Mark and I have a topographic map problem.
Because of a previous endeavor I have around 200,000, perhaps 250,000, topo sheets piled up in my 'Map Shed' in the back yard. They are well taken care of, temperature and humidity controlled.
There is a complete snapshot of 24K maps from ~2000, then a complete set of every 24K map produced after that point. There is a full set of 100K surface management maps for the USA. And I have around 40,000 15-minute quads (the older ones), mostly circulated but some new.
I mention this because I would like to donate them to a public institution that is looking for a complete set of paper maps (perhaps a University collection.)
If you happen to know of any institution that has the ability to ingest and store such a collection, please have them contact me. It may be that this collection has no or decreasing value, however because of my appreciation for what they are I refuse to believe this.
Once on a survey that happened to have been in an area where we saw a lot of snakes, I added a spot on the survey where we had seen a big snake, and wrote, "Found big snake."?ÿ That is the only time in my career that I can recall ever almost getting into bad trouble with one of my surveys.?ÿ It messed up closing when the buyer saw the snake reference on my map.
Full disclosure, I graduated with a BS in geographic science with a double emphasis in geomorphology and cartography.?ÿ While at school, oh so long ago, I helped start the campus paper recycling program.?ÿ It was a fun gig because once a week we drove to every building on campus and loaded barrels of paper to be recycled.?ÿ I mean how often do you get paid to drive around on the sidewalks in a old milk van.?ÿ Anyway, one week the library had placed what must have been a complete USGS topo set out for recycling.?ÿ It was enough that we had to make several trips.?ÿ I ended up keeping a big stack but the rest became paper bags.
I still have a christmas cactus that I found in one of our barrels.?ÿ I graduated in the 80's.
The examiner at the Land Titles Office rang me up firmly tongue in cheek asking why on earth I did not place the peg. That was quite a large survey so there were many other boundary and reference marks for future surveyors to use, just not one exactly at that corner.
