London’s Underground Map – Past, Present and Future by Claire Dobbin, London Transport Museum

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The Beck of Beyond
London’s Underground Map
Past, Present and Future
Claire Dobbin

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Pocket Underground map, 1933 Balham Underground Station, 1934

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Modern God of Transport, Lilian Dring, 1938

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Detail from Underground booklet, An Alphabet of TOT, Charles Pears, 1915

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Pocket Underground map, 1908

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No need to ask a P’liceman, John Hassall, 1908
Cartoon by George Morrow,
Punch, Sep 1909

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Pocket map, MacDonald Gill, 1921 Pocket map, F H Stingemore, 1932

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The Wonderground map, MacDonald Gill, 1914

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Poster map, unknown artist, 1928

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Hand drawn prepublication drawing, Harry Beck, c1931

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Pocket Underground map, 1933

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Cartoon from TOT magazine, March 1933

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Manor House Underground Station Nov 1932
Bakerloo Connections Everywhere, 1908

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Underground posters from 1923, 1930 and 1932

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Pocket Underground map, Hans Schleger, 1938

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Underground poster map, 1946
Press button route indicator machine, 1947
Be Map Conscious, Lewitt-Him, 1945

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Pocket bus map, 1946

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Art Today, Hans Unger, 1966 Tate Gallery by Tube, David Booth
of Fine White Line, 1987

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The Great Bear, Simon Patterson, 1992 Tube map cover, artwork by
Cornelia Parker, 2007

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Passenger drawings made as part of Helen
Scalway’s Travelling Blind project, 1996

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Pocket Tube map, Sep 2009, Cover artwork by Richard Long

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Unpublished map, by Beck, covering the Map of London Underground and rail
entire London rail network, 1938 network, 2009

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Pocket Tube map, 2006, artwork by David Shrigley

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