We’re excited to tell you about our first in-person members-only “Show & Tell” and Social Hour since December 2019. Saturday, February 11, 2023, 2:00 – 4:00 pm at Ned Davis’ map-filled Manhattan apartment. First come, first served, for 2023 paid members only, with a limit of 10 presenters and a total of 20 attendees. Your society will pick up the cost of appetizers, soft drinks, wine and beer.
Thursday, February 16, 2023 (Organized in conjunction with the Library of Congress Philip Lee Phillips Society)
The Mapping of Race in America: The Legacy of Slavery and Redlining from 1860 to Present. The mapping of the racial demographics of the United States has a long and difficult history. From the earliest counts of enslaved individuals and the practice of redlining, to the under counts of various groups in modern Census tabulations, there have always been questions about both its purpose and its accuracy.
Thursday, 5 January 2023 (Arranged with assistance of New York Map Society; sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies). This talk will explore the reasons for the continued wars, will show many examples of divergent maps published during this time, and will show the maps used by President Wilson’s cartographers in coming up with Versailles-recommended (and ignored) Polish-Lithuanian borders.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (ET) time (Online): The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies are offering a virtual lecture by Francis Manasek (retired professor, Dartmouth Medical School; former antiquarian map dealer; author of “Collecting Old Maps” and “A Treatise on Moon Maps”) on “The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696.”
Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (EST) time (Online): The California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, Texas, and Washington Map Societies will offer a virtual lecture by Thomas Horst on “The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection – Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany.”
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 2:00 pm. We will meet at 1:45 pm at the Fifth Avenue entrance of the main branch of the New York Public Library for a Field Trip. Ian Fowler (Curator and Geospatial Librarian for the Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at The New York Public Library) will personally guide society members through the “Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures”.
Based upon his recently published book Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps, Les Trager will discuss a body of Western 16th Century Maps which cannot be explained by the discoveries of European explorers. He will show that the leading 16th century map-makers understood that they were copying maps made by the “ancients.”
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (ET): the New York Map Society presents Rick Smit, a map collector living in The Netherlands, speaking about his Berghaus Map of Syria, published 1835 by the German publishing house Justus Perthes. He will explain the sources Berghaus used, the context under which the map was published, and the new elevation depiction method applied in making the map: hachures.
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 7:00 pm New York (ET) time: Jennifer Thermes, author and map illustrator, will discuss her award-winning book “Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island.” From before its earliest settlement to the vibrant metropolis that exists today, the island of Manhattan has always been a place of struggle, growth, and radical transformation.
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