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Digital Image: 1940 Nelson Pictorial Map of 'Old Chicago', Illinois
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Title
Old Chicago.
1940 (dated) 29.75 x 35.5 in (75.565 x 90.17 cm)
1940 (dated) 29.75 x 35.5 in (75.565 x 90.17 cm)
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Cartographer S
Jean Sterling Nelson (1885 - 19xx) was an American interior designer and lecturer at the Chicago Art Institute. She was the daughter of immigrants and spent her entire life in Illinois. She received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1907 and lived at 3202 Dearborn Street from 1910 until 1913 according to the University of Chicago Alumni Directory. She made one map: a pictorial map of Chicago entitled 'Old Chicago'. In 1951, Nelson was a patient at the 28-K infirmary at Oak Forest (a suburb of Chicago) and apparently read the entire Chicago Tribune to fellow patients every morning. A letter to the editor and publisher of the Tribune written by Nelson got a film of General MacArthur's visit to the U.S. in 1951 shown at the 28-K infirmary. More by this mapmaker...
John Richard Winters (May 12, 1904 - February 28, 1983) was an American artist. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Winters established himself as an integral part of the Chicago art scene during the 1930s and 1940s. He was a talented, diverse, and extremely prolific artist. Over the course of his career, he worked as a newspaper photographer, executed countless murals, and worked as an administrator for WPA Illinois Art Project. He briefly taught art and design at the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, before beginning a career as the chief artist/designer in the display department of Wanamaker's in Philadelphia in 1948. He retired in 1973. Learn More...
References
OCLC 52525927.