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Digital Image: 1943 Pranger 'Ashore in San Diego' Pictorial map of San Diego, California
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Title
Ashore in San Diego.
1943 (undated) 17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)
1943 (undated) 17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Cartographer
Edward Herman Pranger (June 28, 1912 - February 7, 2012), known as Ed, was an American artist, illustrator, and cartoonist active in the middle part of the 20th century. Pranger was born in Hillsboro, Oregon. As a young man he proved a talented artist, selling his cartoons and other drawings to the local newspaper for fifty cents each. His family moved to Yakima, Washington, to work at the canneries when he was a young man. Ed himself took work as a sign painter, illustrating trucks, buildings, and billboards. He also took a correspondence course with the Famous Artists Schools - his only art training. He purchased the sign shop with a friend, Carl Fenner, when the original owner retired. After the outbreak of WWII, Ed joined the Navy in 1942, spending four years at the training center in San Diego where he was employed by the Recruit Training Command as an artist and cartoonist. There he published artwork in The Hoist, a U.S. Navy internal newspaper published from 1923 to 1994, and Wing Tips. After the war, Ed returned to Yakima, Washington, and re-opened the Fenner and Pranger sign shop, branching out into drawing advertising for early television. In 1956, he moved to Los Gatos, California, where he opened a commercial art and silk screen business based in San Jose. He and his wife, Mary Talbot Helliesen, moved back to Washington in 1980, settling in Anacortes. During his long retirement, Pranger painted more than 250 acrylics, many of which were sold at the local Marine Supply Hardware. His work was once described as 'Grandma Moses meets the Far Side'. Pranger died in Anacortes, Washington, at the age of 99 1/2. More by this mapmaker...
References
Rumsey 9702.000.