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1939 Spofford Bird's-Eye View Map of the New York World's Fair
NYWorldsFair-spofford-1939Edward V. Spofford (1895 - May 21, 1940) was an American commercial artist. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Spofford's family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in his youth. He attended Manual Training High School in Brooklyn. Spofford served in the U.S. National Guard in World War I and served overseas from May 10, 1918 through March 6, 1919 and served as the supply sergeant of Company 4, 106th Infantry. He was wounded in action on October 17, 1918. He mustered out on April 2, 1919. After the war, Spofford worked as a commercial artist and in advertising. He had a studio at 366 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. He died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on May 21, 1940. He married Dorothy A. Hanan on June 9, 1921, with whom he had two daughters, Jane and Mary. More by this mapmaker...
Caleb Stillson Hammond (1862 - 1929) was the founder of C. S. Hammond & Company, a map making and printing firm based in Brooklyn, New York. Hammond started his career in mapmaking as the head of Rand McNally's offices in New York City, where he began working in 1894. Hammond split with Rand McNally, forming his own printing concern in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900. The firm was subsequently incorporated in 1901 and relocated to Manhattan, and then to Maplewood, New Jersey, near Hammond's family home. Hammond rose to become one of the largest cartographic publishers in the United States, second only to Rand McNally in volume. On his retirement, C. S. Hammond passed the firm to his son, who subsequently passed it to his own son, C. D. Hammond, who sold the company to Langenscheidt Publishers in 1999. The firm has since been folded into Universal Map, an affiliate of Kappa Publishing Group. This archives of the Hammond World Atlas Corporation, an invaluable resource, where donated to the Library of Congress in 2002. Learn More...
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