Hammond of Atlas Fame Dies
The New York Times offers an obit of Caleb D. Hammond Jr., who died Monday. He lead the company from 1948-74, back when the Internet didn’t intrude on map sales. He moved the company, which began in 1900, forward by selling its atlases to publishers and offering a blow up plastic globe. (I received one of those when I graduated college; I still have it.) In 1999 the company was sold to a German publisher.
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/09 at 05:32 AM |
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