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1899 War Department Spanish-American War Wall Map of Puerto Rico
PuertoRico-graham-1899Several clues suggest that the General Staff Map of Puerto Rico, from which this was copied, was itself copied at least in part from captured Spanish sources. Not only are the radii of visibility for the lighthouses given in Spanish, but in several places an ellipsis followed by a question mark indicate that a copyist was unable to decipher what was probably a manuscript source. Tracing of the islands standing of the southern shore is also incomplete: they appear as ghostly fragments of territory. (Craib, R. B., and Burnett D. G., 'Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish-American War', The Historian, page 108.)
Andrew B. Graham (1845 - September 9, 1909) was an American lithographer active in Washington, D.C. in late 19th and early 20th century. Graham was born in Washington D.C., the son of a lithographer and engraver. After college, he joined the U.S. Coast Survey, where he was a draftsman until 1889. He retired from the Coast Survey to take over management of his father's lithography firm. The firm, Andrew B. Graham Company, was one of several that thrived on lucrative government publication contracts. Graham died of 'brain fever' in his Washington D. C. residence on September 9 of 1909. Some of his work was republished posthumously until about 1917, and his firm was active until at least the early 1920s. More by this mapmaker...
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