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🔴 🗺️ **Adding Color to the World: How Maps Got Toned**
Seanna Tsung
_“Some map publishers had colorists in house, others jobbed the work out. It is thought that a certain amount of the coloring throughout the period under discussion was done at home by women, who were mostly excluded from commercial map production unless they were daughters, wives or widows of male cartographers, engravers or publishers.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/01/adding-color-to-the-world-how-maps-got-toned/.
