Calafia The Journal of the California Map Society September 2019 Leonardo da Vinci CARTOGRAPHER World Map, Southern Ostrich Egg Hemisphere, Globe, 1504 c. 1508 Volume 2019, issue 2 Calafia Journal Page 1 Town Plan of Imola, 1502 Calafia the Journal of the California Map Society Volume 2019, Issue 2 — September 2019 www.californiamapsociety.org Fall meeting, October 26, 2019 Contents WESTCHESTER BRANCH, LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY SoCal 2019 Meeting 2 33° 57’ 34”N, 118° 25’ 02”W or copper.brick.oddly* President’s Letter 3 Saturday, October 26, 2019, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Meeting Program 4 7114 West Manchester Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Library Map, Directions 5 Our 86th Regional Meeting! Editor’s Note 6 CMS Education Fund 6 ur Southern California fall meeting Da Vinci-World Map 7 O will take place Saturday, October Da Vinci Globe-Review 13 23rd at the Westchester/Loyola Village branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. Da Vinci-Plan of Imola 14 How to Map a Spirit 19 We are excited to once again have our A Map Colorist ‘s Tale 22 meeting free and open to the public! One Carto-Quiz 26 of the society's goals is to spread the appre- Colonial Frontier Maps 27 ciation of maps, and we can't think of a better way than to do that than to remove Maps on Walls 32 financial barriers to participation. GLAM Meetings 33 My Favorite Map 35 The Westchester LAPL branch is located Jailed for Mappimg 38 two blocks south of Loyola Marymount Meet Our Member 40 University. This is a super-intersection of Southern California geographies. While Bay Area Map Group 41 See page 5 for Facility Map & Directions many Angelinos (I think it’s Angelenos - Spring Meeting Recap 45 Angelinos are tiny angels!) think of Westchester as a place to kill time while waiting to Mapping Here/There 49 pick up passengers from LAX, geographers know that the most interesting things happen CMS Information 51 at intersections. Think about this intersection. Westchester sits: ▪ just east of ultra-posh Marina Del Rey, ▪ southeast of the beaches of Santa Monica, ▪ due south of gentrified Culver City, ▪ southwest of the Inglewood oil fields, ▪ due west of the historically African-American, rapidly gentrifying, Ingle wood, which grew on racist housing covenants and white flight. And then there’s the airport. Calafia : The Journal of the We will talk about all of this in October. And as always, we will have a full day of presenta- California Map Society tions about maps both old and new. We will celebrate the 100th birthday of UCLA geog- Juliet Rothman, Editor rapher Norman Thrower—a founding member of our society. We will have a selection of Fred DeJarlais, Publisher lightning talks about current mapping projects around the Los Angeles area. Judith Tyner The journal is published bi- annually by the Society. (*) www.what3words.com. Page 2 Calafia Journal Volume 2019, issue 2 will reprise a talk she is giving a few weeks earlier at Stanford’s tact Juliet Rothman, our journal editor, and propose an Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography 2019: Gender, article. She will guide you through submit ting it! (I took Sexuality, Cartography. out the word numbers because 5000 is way too much - our guidelines say around 1500) In the spirit of our president’s note, please consider putting your own name on the list of presenters for this, or any other ▪ Give a talk or recommend a friend! There are always future meeting. E-mail or call Jon Jablonski, who is organizing spots available at our annual conferences for member the meeting, with your idea. His contact information is at the presentations, and I know that you all have a wide variety bottom of his president’s note on page 3. There’s always room of social networks. We are always interested in presenta- for one more! tions covering historic maps, the production of web maps, the use of mapping technology in current business and sci- Looking ahead to next year, the agenda for the Northern Cali- entific environments. So many topics! fornia meeting on April 25th, 2020 is also almost completely organized. VP for Northern California Ron Gibbs seems to be ▪ Give me advice. Should we have a meeting around a gunning for most-organized-volunteer ever! certain theme? Do you know of an organization that might want to partner with us for a joint meeting? Should we have a Palm Springs meeting to attract members new and old from the Inland Empire? I'm all ears, and welcome President’s any suggestions or contributions that you would like to Letter make. Jon Jablonski, I am finishing up this note on the Tuesday evening following CMS President our second-ever GLAM meeting. We were hosted by Bill War- ren and Barb Little in Altadena, and had a lovely afternoon very executive board meeting includes as a topic encour- filled with laughter and good company. We saw antiquarian E aging more people to participate in the Society’s activi- maps, vintage and new cloth maps, and placemat maps. I know ties, and thereby broaden the scope of those activities. everyone who participated learned something, and when I left I saw a room full of happy people preparing to have dinner We rack our brains trying to figure out how to engage our with each other. membership more actively. BAM, and now GLAM (Bay Area Map Group and Greater Los Angeles Mappers, respectively), I know I smile when that white Calafia envelope appears in my provides a social outlet for members to show favorite maps in mail. And I smile when a map librarian colleague posts an in- an informal setting. We host 2 meetings per year in addition teresting tidbit on Facebook. Increasingly, I will be sharing to our annual author talk. All these activities are well attended those tidbits with you. - but there are more than 200 of us! What else can I do related to maps that will make you smile? Yes, we have a selfish reason for addressing this: we want How can your California Map Society replicate the joy of that members to volunteer for leadership positions, such as our white envelope more often? currently vacant Vice-President for Southern California. But there are many other ways you can help the Society be more vibrant! I encourage you to engage with the Society both online and in real life. So, here are some suggestions: ▪ Our Twitter and Facebook accounts are once again active. Follow us and like our posts! Send us interesting cartographic tidbits and we will share them for all of our members to see. ▪ Write! Do you have a passion for a cartographic topic that would interest the group? Some esoteric knowledge that is itching to be put down on per? Con- Map of territory annexed to the city of Los Angeles Califor- nia. Los Angeles, Prince, J. R., Hansen, A. C., & Abell, L. P. (1918). Volume 2019, issue 2 Calafia Journal Page 3 Fall Meeting—Preliminary Program Westchester / Loyola Village Los Angeles Public Library Saturday, October 26th, 2019 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 9:30 - 10:00 Morning hospitality 10:00 - 10:15 Welcome 10:15 - 11:45 Morning presentations 11:45 – 12:15 A tribute to founding member Norman J. W. Thrower 12:15 – 1:45 Lunch 1:45 – 2:30 “Maps as Mirrors and Methods of Colonialism in Hawai`i,” Geoffrey Oliver Lewis, Student Essay Award winner 2:30 – 3:30 Lightning talks: fast paced presentations on a variety of topics. Still accepting submissions! 3:15 Break 3:30 - 4:15 “Three Women Pictorial Cartographers: A Study in Con- trasts,” Judith Tyner 4:15 Business meeting REGISTRATION: WWW.CALIFORNIAMAPSOCIETY.ORG FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, LOOSE SHEETS CONTAINING PROGRAM, MAPS AND DIRECTIONS, AND A MEMBERSHIP FORM ARE ENCLOSED WITH THIS ISSUE. Page 4 Calafia Journal Volume 2019, issue 2 1.75 MILES TO MANCHESTER AVE AFTER THIS SIGN RIGHT ON H. HUGHES 405 0.25 mi LEFT ON SEPULVEDA NB SB 1.5 mi RIGHT ON MANCHESTER 1.1 mi LEFT INTO PARKING LOT (OPPOSITE LOYOLA BLVD) See page 2 for vicinity map Volume 2019, issue 2 Calafia Journal Page 5 Editor’s Note CMS Education Fund t is a pleasure to bring you this very special issue of Calafia. The California Map Society Education Fund was established in I We have a wonderful variety of articles for your enjoyment. 2014 by the Society with the goal of sponsoring an annual lec- We begin with a very man we all know well as an artist— ture by a noted author or other expert in field of cartography. Leonardo DaVinci. In honor of his 500th anniversary, we pre- The lecture is held at the Rumsey Map Center at Stanford sent our tribute to another of Leonardo’s feats: cartography. University, which co-sponsors the program. In addition, dur- His world map is presented and discussed by Christopher Ty- ing the same week, the lecture is also held at a venues in South- ler, who will challenge a view that many of us have held for a ern California. The fund provides transportation, accommoda- long time. Leonardo was also the first to develop the ichno- tions, and an honorarium for the speaker. In addition, the graphic mapping process for town plans, as we will learn from fund will support a short-term fellowship in cartography for a our own Fred DeJarlais. Leonard Rothman reviews Stefaan student from any university in the state of California at the Missine’s book on a globe that Leonardo created from the bot- Rumsey Map Center.