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5222Manuscript design options for Round Earth on Flat Paper.DetailsPaine, Howard E.1963
Lot of 3 manuscript design options for Round Earth on Flat Paper NGS
Paine, Howard E.
1963
LOC:62
$1,200.00Paine--Howard-E-Lot-of-3-manuscript-design-options-for-Round-Earth-on-Flat-Paper-NGSThree manuscript sketches, design options by Howard Paine (1) for The Round Earth on Flat Paper used on the inside back cover of the National Geographic Society's first Atlas of the World. <i>(National Geographic Society. 1963.)</i>. From the estate of Howard Paine, Art Director at National Geographic until 1990. <br><br> Note: The first image of the four displayed, is from the 1963 NGS Atlas and is for comparison only. Not included. <br><br> The booklet "The Round Earth on Flat Paper: Map Projections Used by Cartographers" by Wellman Chamberlin was first published by the National Geographic Society in 1947. In 1963 Chamberlin and Paine collaborated on the design of the inside back and front covers for National Geographic's first <b>"Atlas of the World"</b>: <i>The Earth in Space and The Round Earth on Flat Paper</i>. For <i>The Round Earth on Flat Paper</i> Paine sketched several alternate options. The influence of Paine's early designs are evident in the final design selected for the atlas.
8024Manuscript conceptual maps for Great Lakes–Midwest regionDetailsPaine, Howard E.1975
Manuscript conceptual maps for Great Lakes–Midwest region
Paine, Howard E.
1975
LOC:62
$600.00Paine--Howard-E-Manuscript-conceptual-maps-for-Great-Lakes–Midwest-regionUnpublished poster-size manuscript conceptual map ca. 1975 by National Geographic Art Director Howard Paine (1) presents a unified Great Lakes–Midwest region extending from Lake Superior to central Kentucky. Rendered in soft colored pencil and wash, the sheet studies regional physiography—rivers, watersheds, and upland structure—without the finished editorial layers of a production map. Paine experiments with state boundaries, drainage patterns, and implied landcover to test how a broad Midwest–Great Lakes treatment might read at atlas scale. <br><br> The verso carries a companion terrain study in the same hand, emphasizing elevation, forest cover, and hydrology with Paine’s characteristic, lightly modeled shading. Together the two drawings show the internal design process behind a National Geographic map that was never realized in print, offering a rare look at the developmental artwork that preceded formal cartographic production. They are among the few surviving privately-held examples of Paine’s pre-press regional concept work.<br><br> These conceptual sheets can be securely dated to the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, the period when National Geographic relied on hand-rendered shaded-relief masters and watercolor terrain studies for both its Atlas of the World (6th–8th editions) and the Close-Up U.S.A. series. The green landwash, blue-gray lake treatment, and pencil-modeled hydrology match the Society’s internal cartographic style of roughly 1968–1977, placing Howard Paine’s drafts squarely within that high phase of Nat Geo’s pre-digital map production.