{"id":1817516,"date":"2023-07-25T19:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817516"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:31:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:31:03","slug":"california-mapped-by-typewriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/california-mapped-by-typewriter\/","title":{"rendered":"California (Mapped by) Typewriter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Anything mashing up maps and typewriters is guaranteed to get my attention (I have 37 of the latter and rather a lot more of the former). So I have no choice but to share R. J. Andrews\u2019s \u201cTypewriter<\/a>,\u201d an elevation map of California created on a manual typewriter.<\/p>\n

Created by layering combinations of nearly 2,500 keystrokes (I, H, X, and O) with a 1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter on Masa 77gsm paper from Japan. Based on a California Albers projection at approximately 1:5,000,000 scale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The original is held by the David Rumsey Map Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anything mashing up maps and typewriters is guaranteed to get my attention (I have 37 of the latter and rather a lot more of the former). So I have no choice but to share R.… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[323,390,1625],"class_list":["post-1817516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-california","tag-elevation","tag-typewriter","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5990,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/05\/mapping-the-california-sea-floor\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817516,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the California Sea Floor","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 May 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"The USGS's California Seafloor Mapping Program has produced a set of insanely detailed maps of the sea floor along the California coast. 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