Cleaning up an old map...

[Gamerprinter]

I like the little platforms for embarkation onto the carriages, as seen in the bottom drawing - in front of the Stockton house, and one at the left side. Although I've seen these before at historic locations, it has always slipped my mind when drawing a map in horse and carriage days.

These period drawings show what existed then. Often we think to television or movies when trying to recreate a period drawing - but that isn't reality. Its images like this that show what must be included.

I will probably start to include loading platforms at more of my village maps, just because these drawings remind they are there.

[NeonKnight]

Boy talk about HUMAN EYE CAN PICK UP PATTERNS. Look at the cows. Every single right facing cow is drawn the same.:

Right hind leg back/Left hind leg forward
Right fore leg forward/left fore leg back.
Cow is looking right.

[RobA]

Must have been using the farm animal clipart pack

-Rob A>

[StillCypher]

LOL, that's funny!

But what a cool picture! What a cool job!

[Gamerprinter]

Consider that a practice that lead towards clipart. The LaSalle County Platbook contains dozens of pages with similar showing properties drawn by hand. When this book was created, undoubtedly one was created for every other county as well - 42 in all. How many similar books were created for other states and their counties?

How many artists were involved - probably an army, perhaps part of the cartographers jobs in the project. Anyway, hundreds or thousands of such drawings would be required.

Production workflow would be necessary to create such a large project, therefore cows consistently drawn the same way would help in making quicker work of such a large job.

I couldn't imagine the level of work involved, nor the cost in today dollars compared to 1876.

[RobA]

That is why there used to be work places that looked like this:


or this:


(images from us mil. and Belfast Museum - Titanic exhibit, respectively)

-Rob A>

[Midgardsormr]

Can you imagine the insane filing system an operation like that would require? 50 or 60 drafters, each working with 20 - 100 poster-sized sheets, and you've got to be organized enough so that everyone can find the drawings they need when they need them.