An exhibition of early maps that chronicles the effects of European exploration and settlement in north-eastern North America in creating a spatial concept called “New England.”
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, Portland. November 30th, 1996 to April 27th, 1997
© all site text and images (excepting item 19), University of Southern Maine, 1996.
The Cartographic Creation of New England
I. The European ‘Discoveries’
II. Samuel de Champlain and New France
III. Charting New England’s Coast
IV. ‘New England’ Defined
V. Mapping the Interior: Moosehead Lake
VI. Credits
