The Portolan

Issue #107 - Spring 2020

ARTICLES

The Geographical President: How Franklin D. Roosevelt Used Maps to Make and Communicate Strategy, by Andrew J. Rhodes  Ristow Winning Article 2019

Three Tiny Islands of Crete, by Bert Johnson

In the Footsteps of the Crime: Recovering Map Masterpieces Stolen by E. Forbes Smiley by Ron Grim

Confessions of a Collector, by Roger Stewart

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Leah M. Thomas.

BOOK REVIEWS

Cartography: The Ideal and its History (Reviewer: Ron Grim)

Utah Historical Quarterly (Cartography and the Founding of Salt Lake City) (Reviewer: Bill Ginsberg)

Theodore de Bry. America - The Complete Plates 1590-1602 (Reviewer: Cassandra Farrell)

The Atlas of Boston History (Reviewer: Kris Butler)

SHORTER ITEMS

1. WMS President’s Spring 2020 Letter

2. Washington Map Society Meetings: Spring 2020

3. Exhibitions and Meetings

4. Map Site Seeing

5. Ristow Prize Competition 2020

6. Tribute to Bert Johnson, by Evelyn Edson

7. Tribute to Chas Langelan, by David Lee Ingram

8. Remembering Ken Nebenzahl

9. WMS Field Trip to Mt. Vernon - A Photo Essay, by Eliane Dotson

10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander