1949 Denis Mason Jones Pictorial Map of Leeds, England

Denis Mason Jones (March 10, 1918 - January 8, 2010) was a British architect and graphic artist most active in Leeds in the second half of the 20th century. He studied architecture and design at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 1939. During World War II (1939 - 1945) he served as a mine sweeper in North Africa - service that shattered his right arm when a mine exploded. After the war he went on to further architectural studies in Zurich. As a cartographer, Jones produced a series of 'Heritage Maps' of British cities. He was a member of the Leeds Club for over 40 years. He died in Leeds in 2010. More by this mapmaker...

Kerry Ernest Lee (December 4, 1902 - February, 1988) was a British commercial illustrator, artist, and publisher of pictorial maps active in the middle part of the 20th century. Lee was the founder of the London based Pictorial Maps Ltd. He was born in West Ham, Essex, England. Lee's earliest pictorial map work dates to about 1940, when he produced a pictorial map of Scandinavia During World War II, Lee was one of several artist who created dramatic military-educational cut-away images of German aircraft and war maps for the Air Intelligence branch of MI6, A.I.2. After the war, in 1946, he founded Pictorial Maps Ltd. to publish a series of historical and pictorial maps of popular English cities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Birmingham, and Liverpool. He included comic self-portraits illustrating he and his dog Jim in many of the maps. The images proved popular and many were reprinted for sale in the United States by the Travel Association. The firm also employed other artists, including Denis M. Jones. Lee died in Dacorum, Hertfordshire, England. Learn More...