THURSDAY 20 MARCH 2025
Location: Zoom, 7:00 PM ET/6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/4:00 PM PT
Title: Just In Case I Don’t Live Forever, What Should Happen To My Collection?
Speakers: Laura Ten Eyck, Gallery Director, Argosy Book Store in Manhattan and Vice President of New York Map Society; and P. J. Mode, lawyer for more than 40 years in Washington DC and New York City and collector of persuasive maps recently donated to Cornell University.
Originally presented to the New York Map Society in January 2020, this presentation will enumerate various ways of donating or disposing of map collections. The topics that will be discussed include selling at an auction, selling to one or more dealers, selling or giving to an institution, and giving to family or friends.
Bios:
Laura Ten Eyck grew up in Toronto, Canada in a municipality of Lake Ontario called Mimico. She studied visual art at York University with a concentration in print-making and attended the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at New York University. Her interest in maps began on the Thorong La pass in Nepal during a solo trek when the wind took her only map. A one-year apprenticeship with Miss Ruth Shevin in the map room at the Argosy Book Store in Manhattan furthered her passion for mapping and all the forms it takes. Ten Eyck is the director of the gallery at the Argosy Book Store in New York City, an appraiser of Posters & Prints on The Antiques Roadshow, and has appeared on CBS Sunday morning. She knew it was her destiny to live in NYC when she discovered, through rare maps, Coenraedt Ten Eyck (her relative) received two WIC (Dutch West India Company) land grants in lower Manhattan. She lives in Greenpoint Brooklyn with her family.
PJ Mode practiced law for more than 40 years in Washington and New York. Since retiring in 2013, he has devoted full time to his long-time interest in old maps. He focuses on collecting, researching and writing about “persuasive cartography,” maps whose primary intent or effect is to influence opinions or beliefs – to send a message – rather than to communicate geographic information. His collection is going to Cornell University, and PJ’s website at persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edudescribes the subject and the collection, with links to high-resolution images and detailed research notes on each map.
There are now more than 1200 maps in the online collection, in some 27 languages, dating from 1491 to the present.
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