- unitid
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{"value"=>"25823", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22701321", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 25823", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1954-2008", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1954/2008"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Anderson Map Company records"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.58 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Manuscripts and Archives</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Anderson Map Company created isometric maps, drawn by cartographer and urban planner Constantin Anderson. The company's most significant project was a map of Midtown Manhattan, periodically updated to reflect the city's rapidly evolving architecture from 1961 until 1980. The collection contains the company's papers and examples of all aspects of production materials, including Anderson's original pencil sketches, blueprints, and transparencies."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Anderson Map Company", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Anderson Map Company was a map design company that specialized in creating highly detailed, isometric, or axonometric maps. The illustrations were hand-drawn by the urban planner and cartographer Constantin Anderson. Each building is rendered in extreme detail with a fixed perspective, giving the viewer a dynamic feel for the size of the city, its parks, the height of the buildings, overall creating an incredibly detailed architectural environment.</p> <p>The most significant project for the Anderson Map Company was a map of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Anderson aimed to make an accurate and aesthetically pleasing map that could serve as souvenirs for tourists as well as a working map for New Yorkers. The original map of Manhattan was published in 1961 and periodically updated through 1980. The different iterations of this map are especially significant, as this period encompassed one of the densest building booms in the history of New York City.</p> <p>In addition to their map of Manhattan, the Anderson Map Company reprinted a 1736 map of Paris; a map of the fairgrounds of the 1964 Worlds Fair in Flushing, Queens; and a map of sections of Astoria, Queens commissioned for an exhibition.</p> <p>Constantin Anderson was born in 1918 in Russia but moved to study municipal development at the University of Paris. While completing his degree, he met and married Stella Duckett. During his studies, Constantin helped prepare the official map of Marseilles and other map-making projects. Before moving to New York City in 1959, Constantin worked as an industrial designer with E. Burton Benjamin Associates in Chicago.</p> <p>Anderson passed away in Manhattan in February of 1983 and was survived by his wife, Stella Anderson. Stella was designated as the sole executor of Anderson's estate, including the copyrights of the Anderson Map Company. While operating the estate as an individual, Stella would maintain the rights and reproduction fees but encountered several publishers printing Anderson's map of Midtown without permission or credit to Constantin Anderson or the company.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection contains the papers and products of the Anderson Map Company (also known as the Manhattan Map Company), and the illustrator Constantin Anderson. Their maps served as stand-alone cartographic objects and advertisements for real estate developers and businesses. This archive includes invoices, transparencies, correspondence, original map sketches, printed maps, posters, and flyers.</p> <p> The items in this collection are related to the physical process of creating and printing maps, particularly the company's primary product, a map of Midtown Manhattan. The first edition was published in 1961, with several updated iterations published through 1980. The documentation covers the map's creation from conception, drafting, production and printing. Much of the company's correspondence is related to rights, reproduction, and competing map companies.</p> <p>In addition to maps of Manhattan, Anderson created two maps of Queens and republished a 1736 map of Paris.</p> <p>The collection reflects the styles and history of cartography and architecture in the middle to late half of the 20th century, especially as New York City saw a boom of construction from the 1960s through the 1980s. As the company periodically updated the map of Midtown, this collection provides a context of the rapidly evolving skyline.</p> <p>Many of the papers in this collection after Anderson's death in 1983 are related to Stella Duckett Anderson's role as the executor of her husband's estate and copyright holder of the creations of the Anderson Map Company. Much of the correspondence from this period documents Stella's legal and financial matters.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Purchased by the New York Public Library from The Old Map Gallery in 2019.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Emily P. Dunne</span> in <span class=\"date\">2022</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1954
- keydate
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1954
- date_end
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2008
- date_inclusive_start
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1954
- date_inclusive_end
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2008
- extent_statement
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1.58 linear feet (6 boxes)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Anderson Map Company records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}