Adding the aArtistic Touch - Plaster models are made from the cardboard negatives and then are retouched by expert modellers to add accuracy and remove the step-like effect of the abrupt contour lines. Modelling clay is used to achieve greater realism and streams and rivers are marked out.

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Title:
Adding the aArtistic Touch - Plaster models are made from the cardboard negatives and then are retouched by expert modellers to add accuracy and remove the step-like effect of the abrupt contour lines. Modelling clay is used to achieve greater realism and streams and rivers are marked out.
Description:
[Information from item housing] Map & Mapmaking
Photographer:
Fay Foto Service (Boston, Mass.)
Name on Item:
Fay Foto Service Inc.
Date:
[ca. June 1938]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue
Subjects:
Maps
Map making
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 205 x 259 mm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7w62jj663
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
All rights reserved.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title(s) from item.
Preferred Citation:
Boston Herald-Traveler Photo Morgue, Boston Public Library
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Boston University, College of Communication, 1977/1978.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
22_10_001465_0017
Barcode:
39999088103716