Presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies. Guided tour of LVA’s new map exhibition, “Mapping the Commonwealth, 1816-1826” by Cassandra Farrell: Exhibition Curator and Senior Map Archivist.
Explore and learn about objects from the Map Collection in a curated talk offered by Special Collections staff. This drop in event will be held in the Map Collection at the Parkway Central Library (1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) Philadelphia, PA 19103) from 11:00am to 11:30am. This event is open to the public and does not require registration.
All are welcome to attend a book talk and signing event for “The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade,” by Nicholas Nugent, with special reference to New York and Salem. We may think of ‘globalism’ as a recent development, but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade, and profit.
A Look Behind “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World”. This talk provides a curator’s overview of the latest exhibition from the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, Processing Place. The exhibition explores the rise of computer cartography and early…
Saturday, December 14, 1:00 pm New York (ET) time, In-Person: We still have room for six current paid members, only, of the New York Map Society 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.
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.
Dr. Neal Asbury (rare map collector, CEO of Legacy Companies, and host of syndicated weekly radio talk show – Neal Asbury’s Made in America) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts (historian and professor emeritus, Fielding Graduate University) will speak on “Mapping the Holy Land: An Illustrated Discussion.”
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.