Up to 15 current paid members, only, of the New York Map Society are invited to reserve a spot with kapochunas@gmail.com for a private tour of The Old Print Shop in Manhattan, followed by a Holiday Social Hour at a nearby pub for appetizers and drinks.
What makes the nineteenth century a distinct period in the history of cartography? Some clues arise from a comparison of the table of contents of Volumes Four, Five, and Six of The History of Cartography, dealing respectively with the Enlightenment and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
We still have room for six current paid members, only, of the New York Map Society for a field trip to the map-filled Upper West Side apartment of one of our Board members. Refreshments will be provided. Featured are over 25 pictorial maps (two are pictured below), a collection of vintage posters, and an 1855 birds eye view of midtown Manhattan by Wellstood & Smith.
All are welcome to join Laura Ten Eyck, vice president of the New York Map Society, at the Argosy Bookstore for a free presentation and poster map signing by Anton Thomas, a New Zealand artist-cartographer known for his colored pencil illustrated maps. His “Wild World” map, reviewed in The New York Times, has 1,642 wild animals roaming it.
THURSDAY 20 June 2024, Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM ET on Zoom. “Mapping German Americans and Their Communities: Heinz Kloss and His 1974 Ethnographic Atlas” by Heiko Mühr, Map Metadata & Curatorial Specialist, Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California Berkeley.
Dear Valued 2024 Lifetime or Sustaining Member: You are getting notice of our season-ending Lunch and “Show & Tell” before General members get our Thursday April 18 email. WHERE: Adam Kushner’s Greenwich Village townhouse: 16 Minetta Lane, NYC 10012. WHEN: 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Saturday, May 4.
Thursday, May 2, 3:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress.. Lecture 2: “Catawba Cartographies: Remapping the Indigenous Southeast, ca. 1670-1733” byS. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia.
Thursday, May 2, 3:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Montpelier Room, 6th Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress.. Lecture 1: “Extractive Place Naming Practices in Early Modern North America” by Lauren Beck, Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter; Professor of Visual and Material Culture Studies, Mount Allison University, Canada.
Thursday, April 25, 1:00 pm New York (EDT) time, London, Hybrid: the Thirty-Third Series of “Maps and Society Lectures” in the history of cartography will feature Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator) on “Marking the miles: some annotated maps in National Trust collections.”
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 pm New York (EDT) time, Chicago, Hybrid: the Chicago Map Society will host Karen-edis Barzman (Emeritus Professor of Art History) speaking on “Government Mapping in Early Modern Venice.” In 1460 the Venetian republic mandated something unprecedented – the systematic mapping of its territories, combining quantitative and qualitative data in “true pictures” to be archived and consulted in the inner chambers of government.