High Sierra Country

Artist

Dorothy Nelson, USA

Creation Date

1970s

Scale and Size

Original art scale: not known
Original art size: 17.78 x 40.64 cm
Cropped digital art size: 26.3 × 59.3 cm at 300 DPI,
3,106 × 7,004 pixels

Terms of Use

No use restrictions. The shaded relief is in the public domain. Space permitting on your map, please cite Dorothy Nelson as the source.

Georeferencing

None. The map projection is not known.

Release Date

July 2010

Additional Information

Original art created for R. R. Donnelley and Sons Cartographic Services, published in The High Sierras, a Time Life book. R. R. Donnelley and Sons Cartographic Services, now defunct, retained use rights and ownership of the art. Upon going out of business, Donnelley transferred ownership of the relief to GeoSystems Global Corporation, which later became MapQuest, owned by AOL. When MapQuest sold off their custom cartography unit, GeoNova, a successor company, obtained ownership of the shaded relief. GeoNova has since failed. GeoNova notified Herwig G. Schutzler of their intent to dispose of the shaded relief, which he rescued. Schutzler generously lent the original art to shadedreliefarchive.com for scanning before donating it to the U.S. Library of Congress, where it is permanently stored.