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I am writing the first spreadsheet from the American point of view about 19th century rotunda panoramas.These were the biggest paintings in the world ,50 x 400=20,000 square feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. Chicago in 1893 had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas. On September 18,2003 I found in the display case of Milwaukee County Historical Society the F.W.Heine diaries 1879-1921.These are the only narrative of a panorama company, that of William Wehner (1847-1928) of Chicago who built his panorama studio in downtown Milwaukee. From 1885-88 Wehner produced 2 units of BATTLE OF ATLANTA,2 units of MISSIONARY RIDGE & LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN and 3 units of JERUSALEM ON THE DAY OF THE CRUCIFIXION.The diaries needed to be transcribed in German,translated to English, scanned to computer.Michael Kutzer,born 1941 in Leipzig like Heine,is transcriber of the F.W.Heine diaries,which are as important to the history of rotunda panorama as the letters of Theo and Vincent Van Gogh are important to the history of Post Impressionism. Regarding M A U S: a panorama worker named MAUS worked for Wehner's company and that of A.T.Andreas in Chicago. Maus--first name unknown--traveled from city setting up panoramas, moving panoramas,taking panoramas down.INFO TO SHARE genemeier@frontier.com