Reaches of the Nation’s Capital

Mapmaker:

Charles Ernest Riddiford (1897-1968)
Riddiford,had migrated from England to America in 1923 to join the National Geographic was chief research cartographer when he retired in 1959.  A native of London, he studied in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the Geographic he was co-author of a highly successful book, “The Round Earth on Flat Paper,” which tells how maps are made and describes map projections. He also held a patent on a collapsible globe and had designed an atlas for the Oxford University Press.