[24561] (Americana - Cartography - Richard Edes
Harrison). 1984 Inscribed and Signed
Photograph of Cartographer and Artist Richard Edes Harrison (with) Related
Ephemera New
York, New York: Photo By Bill Ray, 1984. Black and white photograph, 8" x
10" on heavy photographic paper; on back is handwritten "For my old
and valued friend Bob Greene" and with Harrison’s name and the date of
April 1984 at the lower border; with the studio stamp of Photo by Bill Ray 350
Central Park West New York. (with) A group of copy-pages of drawings from the
New Yorker by Harrison and presented "for Bob Greene Richard Edes Harrison
on his 66th Birthday" (with) the black and white illustrated memorial
service pamphlet for R. E. Harrison (1901 – 1994) Cartographer-Artisan-Birder-Raconteur
on the 93rd Anniversary of his Birth March 11, 1994. in good condition. Robert
S. Greene (1922 - 2013) American writer, jazz musician, documentarian and
historian, friend of the artist, who innovated U.S. cartography in the 20th
century. (see Timothy Barney, “Richard Edes Harrision and the Cartographic
Perspective of Modern Internationalism” U. of Richmond 2012 for his more on his
contributions to cartography)