Olga Gustava Herlin was Sweden's first female engraver.
15 Facts About Olga Herlin
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Olga Herlin introduced new working methods and served for nearly 50 years at the Swedish Kingdom's general mapping service and its predecessors.
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Olga Herlin was the first woman to be elected to the Swedish Cartographic Society in 1920.
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Olga Herlin was the oldest of seven children born to the map engraver and engineer Claes Ewald Reinhold Herlin and his wife Claudia, nee Sjoberg.
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Olga Herlin discovered a way to improve the techniques used to transfer a drawn map to a copper plate.
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Olga Herlin was able to streamline this process in 1901 in such a way that the map was directly pantographed onto the gelatin paper, from which the image was printed on the copper plate.
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In 1903, Olga Herlin was paid as an extra engraver at the Kingdom's general cartography with a daily working time of 5 hours, but she did not get annual leave until 1908.
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Olga Herlin SEK 500 in scholarship from an Arbetarna travel grant.
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Olga Herlin had then worked at the plant for 37 years.
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In February 1927, Olga Herlin asked the King Gustaf V to credit her service with her previous unofficial employment at the office so she could qualify for a pension.
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Olga Herlin did not completely lay down her tools, but undertook engraving and retouching work until 1940.
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Olga Herlin was known as a particularly distinguished and skilled map engraver.
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Olga Herlin completed difficult works in a meritorious manner and the copper plates she engraved are easily recognizable.
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Olga Herlin was the first woman to be elected to the Swedish Cartographic Society in 1920.
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Olga Herlin died on 24 April 1965, in Stockholm and is buried in the family grave at the Norra cemetery in Solna.