McMillin, Helen Frances (sold)
Helen Frances McMillin (June 9, 1896 - June 6, 1987) was and American publisher, writer, editor, and illustrator active in the middle part of the 20th century. McMillin was born to a prominent family of North Adams, Massachusetts and attended Wellesley College, where she was editor of the Wellesley Legenda and Wellesley College News. =After graduating in 1917, she moved to Boston, where she worked as publisher of the Granite Monthly. She remained in until at least 1926, but in 1930 she was living in New York City where she worked at the Museum of Modern Art. We have had a difficult time assessing out her marriage situation based upon announcements published in the North Adams Transcript. In 1921 there was an announcement of her engagement to Royal Stuart Steiner of Wisconsin, an economics professor. Another announcement appeared in 1930, to Richard G. Francois of New York. A third appears to suggest she married Royal Stewart Van de Woestyne (1892 - 1967), a Knox College economic professor, in 1933. Based upon ancestry research, it appears that Steiner and Van de Woestyne are one in the same, and so a name change may have occurred, for unclear reasons. She is the aunt of another important female pictorial map mapmaker and artist, Elisabeth L. McMillin (1909 - 19??). Together with Helen F. McMillin, Shurtleff headed the Boston based Graphic History Association Publishers of Historical Maps, which published several important pictorial maps between 1926 and 1936. Helen died in Hamilton, Ohio.
Early work by important women cartographers.
Map of the State of New Hampshire.
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This is a 1926 Elizabeth Shurtleff and Helen F. McMillin pictorial map of New Hampshire. Shurtleff and McMillin were among the most prominent of the pioneering female artists who influenced the Golden Age of American Pictorial Cartography - from the 1920s - 1940s. Shurtleff was a New Hampshire native, and this map represents some of her earliest formative work - and as such offers both scarcity and significance. (more details)
Stunning pictorial map by one of the great female pictorial cartographers.
The Sommer Ilands. A map of the Bermuda Islands. Ya des Demonios, Isles of the Devils.
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A stunning large format pictorial map of Bermuda issued in 1930 by a trio of female mapmakers based in Boston: Elizabeth Shurtleff, Helen F. McMillin, and her niece Elizabeth L. McMillin. The map covers all of Bermuda including the adjacent islands. Pictorial vignettes illustrating island flora, fauna, and social life fill the island and the whole is surrounded by a coral reef motif border. (more details)