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CARTOGRAPHER'S COLLECTION #01: Mid-Century French Tourism Booklets
Cartography is such a diverse artform, evolving throughout the decades and serving whatever purpose it needs to, ideally with a sense of style. I came across these series of maps in an op shop, and was amazed with them. These printed in English series of tourism brochures were made around the 1950's or 1960's, and while thematically are similar acorss the series, each map has a distinct colour scheme and style. The maps and illustrations all appear to be hand drawn, and each map has around 3-4 colours. Each map has different folds to, the Alps one opens...