Adding the artistic touch - Plaster models are made from the cardboard negatives and then are retouched by expert modelers to add accuracy and remove the step-like effect of the abrupt contour lines. Modelling clay is used to achieve greater realism and streams and rivers are marked out

Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Adding the artistic touch - Plaster models are made from the cardboard negatives and then are retouched by expert modelers to add accuracy and remove the step-like effect of the abrupt contour lines. Modelling clay is used to achieve greater realism and streams and rivers are marked out

Fay Foto Service (Boston, Mass.) · [ca. June 1938]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Map & Mapmaking

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