Digital Image: 1960 Britton Pictorial Map of the University of Virginia
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Title
The University of Virginia A Pictorial Map portraying Mr. Jefferson's original Architectural Creation with the surrounding Halls of Learning and Cognate Institutions erected to date
1960 (dated) 23.75 x 31.5 in (60.325 x 80.01 cm)
1960 (dated) 23.75 x 31.5 in (60.325 x 80.01 cm)
Description
FOR THE ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP, WITH HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, CLICK HERE.
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Cartographer S
Louise Esther (Weibel) Britton (1900 - 1988) was an American artist. Born in the United States, she attended high school in Montreal at Montreal High School before attending McGill University. She graduated with a LLB (Bachelor of Laws) in 1922 and an LLM (Master of Laws) in 1923, although she never practiced law. She married Dr. Sydney Britton (February 24, 1892 - 19??) in 1924 and they settled in Virginia. We are aware of only 1 map issued by Britton, a pictorial map of the University of Virginia. A letter surfaced from the author's daughter pasted to the back of a framed copy of the map. The letter suggested that most copies were lost to flooding at her beach house and the original plates lost in a fire at the Richmond printing house. More by this mapmaker...
Sydney William Britton (February 24, 1892 - 19??) was a British doctor. Born in England, Britton attended McGill University in Quebec from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1922 and an M.D. in 1924. He soon embarked on his medical career accepting positions at Harvard, McGill, Johnson Hopkins, and finally as a Professor of Physiology at the University of Virginia. He was awarded a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1937. Britton married Louise Esther Weibel in 1924 and the couple had four children: two sons and two daughters. Having taught at the University of Virginia for twenty-four years years, Dr. and Mrs. Britton relocated to Nigeria, where Dr. Britton served as a Fulbright professor in the University of West Africa. Upon retiring and returning to the U.S., the couple devoted months of research and preparation towards a historical cartograph or pictorial map of the campus of the University of Virginia, printed in 1960. Afterwards, they produced a similar map of the campus of the University of North Carolina, published in 1962, which like the University of Virginia map was printed in a small run and marketed to alumni through alumni publications. Learn More...
References
University of Virginia Library G3884 .C4:2U5 A5 1960 .E9. OCLC 70117301.