Chicago Mapmakers: Essays on the Rise of the City's Map Trade

These essays, originally lectures commissioned by the Chicago Map Society, discuss the origins and early development of Chicago as a great center of mapmaking in the nineteenth century. Gerald A. Danzer and Cynthia A. Peters are among those lecturers represented. Includes a history of Rand McNally & Company, also a bibliography of maps and atlases printed in Chicago before the fire. Well illustrated, with many period photographs and maps. ii, 76 pages. cloth.. 4to..