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…