Harold N. Fisk's 1944 monumental tome on nature at its most mundane and sublime is, amazingly, available online and free. Landscape architects in every specialty have much to glean from it, not the least of which are water engineering techniques, ecological and geological processes, graphic representation, and the ideological and philosophical implications of reconstructing the Mississippi River.
The maps, scanned at high resolution and full scale, are some of the most beautiful I've seen.
The following files are hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
woow - this map is incredibly beautiful. Wonderfull when technical drawings like this gets almost abstract qualities.
and btw - discovered your blog a few days ago and must say that so far it's the nicest architectural blog I've come across. So I think I'll put a nice little link to it on my own.
Keep up the very nice work
Adam
Anonymous
January 5, 2006 at 11:22:00 PM CST
The links are all broken as of 01/06/06. The detail you posted looks beautiful.
Apparently, the LVM site has crashed as reported in the comments in this post.
If it doesn't come online in the coming week, and you'd like to download the high-res files, I'll upload them to Flickr. Or make some sort of arrangement.
Anonymous
January 6, 2006 at 7:02:00 AM CST
Thanks Alexander.
Anonymous
January 9, 2006 at 4:39:00 PM CST
Love this! But the army corps of engineers site is still down. Any chance you can upload the original images somewhere?
I've uploaded the entire set to Flickr. But in order to meet Flickr's 10MB max file size for uploading, I had to reduce each map to 20%. (Or was it 18%.) With some amateurish image manipulation to make them somewhat legible in their reduced size.
Does anyone know where or how to distribute the original maps? The PDFs are around 20MB each, with the extracted JPEG files slightly larger.
funny this map has been an inspiration for me during my work, and i have showed it to everyone i know and now i find it here. it is so fantastic it has even got its own space at my kitchen wall
strange
Anonymous
August 21, 2008 at 10:25:00 AM CDT
Found this site and posting randomly, and was immediately taken with both. I subsequently used The Fisk Report as a basis for a poem - shifting the geological jargon out of its contextual framework to portray a more human character - and have used some of these beautiful plates in (private) artworks. Thank you for shining a spotlight on this gem.
I'm trying to find more info about these maps. I have 8 of the 15 originals & they seem to be much larger than the ones I've seen for sale at various sites online. Any info would be appreciated.
Anonymous
March 22, 2012 at 11:47:00 PM CDT
Anyone know if there are reprints of this map available for purchase?
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and btw - discovered your blog a few days ago and must say that so far it's the nicest architectural blog I've come across. So I think I'll put a nice little link to it on my own.
Keep up the very nice work
Adam
If it doesn't come online in the coming week, and you'd like to download the high-res files, I'll upload them to Flickr. Or make some sort of arrangement.
Does anyone know where or how to distribute the original maps? The PDFs are around 20MB each, with the extracted JPEG files slightly larger.
It would be wise to mirror this, though. Maybe this, Alexander? http://box.net/
this map has been an inspiration for me during my work, and i have showed it to everyone i know and now i find it here.
it is so fantastic it has even got its own space at my kitchen wall
strange
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