On June 14, members of the New York Map Society enjoyed a special visit to Geographicus Rare Antique Maps in Brooklyn, hosted by map dealer Kevin Brown. Attendees explored a curated selection of rare and historic maps, gaining insight into their provenance and significance.
Saturday, May 24, 1:30 pm New York (EDT) time, In-Person: the New York Map Society will pay the group tour fee for up to 20 current, only, society members at the Morgan Library and Museum for a one-hour “Highlights Tour” led by a Museum Educator.
Sunday, May 4, 11:00 am and 2:00 pm New York (EDT) time, The Bronx, In-Person: repeating a successful September 2018 Long Island Sound sailing trip on New York Map Society member Roger Karlebach’s boat “Ilene,” up to ten current members.
Hosted by the Washington Map Society, this Zoom meeting is presented in partnership with the California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies, this Zoom features Laura Ten Eyck and P. J. Mode discussing Just in Case I Don’t Live Forever, What Should Happen To My Collection?
The New York Map Society invites current members, only, to RSVP to kapochunas@gmail.com for one of a maximum of 20 places for a private tour of an upcoming exhibition at the Grolier Club: Wish You Were Here: Guidebooks, Viewbooks, Photobooks, and Maps of New York City, 1807-1940
Up to 12 current or prospective New York Map Society members are invited to attend (RSVP to kapochunas@gmail.com) WeWork (368 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001), for an exploration of New York City zoning, budget and civic infrastructure data via maps. The State of New York and how its $114 billion budget is spent will be visualized.
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…