Relief Map of the White Mountains
George Snow's 1872 relief map of the White Mountains in New Hampshire "was produced as a visual aid for schoolchildren. Instead of drawing contour lines over the mountains to show their relative heights," he used papiere-mache to build up the surface to reflect topography." Lake Winnipesaukee is at the bottom. The mass directly above it toward the top is Mount Washington, at 6,288 feet (1,900 m) the highest peak in the northeastern United States.
Quoted from a sign in the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, at an exhibit called Crossing Boundaries: Art//Maps.
Relief Map of the White Mountains
George Snow's 1872 relief map of the White Mountains in New Hampshire "was produced as a visual aid for schoolchildren. Instead of drawing contour lines over the mountains to show their relative heights," he used papiere-mache to build up the surface to reflect topography." Lake Winnipesaukee is at the bottom. The mass directly above it toward the top is Mount Washington, at 6,288 feet (1,900 m) the highest peak in the northeastern United States.
Quoted from a sign in the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, at an exhibit called Crossing Boundaries: Art//Maps.