(Germany - Berlin) Das Alte Berlin Arvada Some hand color

Some hand color

A commercial advertising map for the town that was once a vast ranch that was puchased by General Otis

and leaves some portions not fully charted in the southeast

His career was built on his expeditions in the West which produced some foundational maps of the West

and a rather stereotypical “darkies” picking cotton and playing banjo in the Everglades

(Germany - Berlin) Das Alte Berlin Arvada Some hand color(Germany Berlin) Das Alte Berlin, Gerhard R. Hauptmann, 1987Designed and drawn for the 750th anniversary of the city, this is an amazing overview that gives a bigger view of Berlin beyond the nightmares of WWII and the ensuing vivisection of the urban landscape between the once allied powers versus the Soviet Union, this poster captures something of the arc of the life of the city. From an early inland seaside resort, to artifacts of the bronze age,