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  • Judith McCarthy Robbins

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sylvania Embarkation Traversing the North Atlantic Life Aboard an Ocean Liner Disemba...

  • Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s

    Postcard of Cunard Line's "Sylvania" (between 1957 and 1968). OML Morse Collection. [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Getting there was Half the Fun: Traveling aboard a Transatlantic Ocean Liner in the 1960s Judith McCarthy Robbins The RMS Sy...

  • Vol. 2 of Blaeu’s Atlas Major

    We are pleased to announce that we have posted to the site the second volume of the Atlas Major, sive cosmographia by Joan Blaeu. (See an earlier blog post about the volumes).  Volume 2 covers Sweden, Russia, Poland, Southeastern Europe and Gree...

  • To the Ends of the Earth … press coverage

    The OML exhibition, "To the Ends of the Earth . . . and back," curated by Arthur Dunkelman from materials in the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection, is the subject of a review in the Portland Press Herald! ...

  • NOAA to stop printing lithographic maps of S.S. waterways

    According to NPR the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will cease to print the lithographic nautical charts that it has printed since the 1860's. These charts will still be available digitally from the NOAA and physically through autho...

  • Other Monuments

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Civil War Monuments in Maine Monuments of Victory Sentinel Soldiers Obelisks and Columns Other Monuments [/expand] Some monuments are very simple--a small plaque inset on a boulder, or very practical--a wa...

  • Obelisks and Columns

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Civil War Monuments in Maine Monuments of Victory Sentinel Soldiers Obelisks and Columns Other Monuments [/expand] Obelisks, thought to have represent rays of the sun, are narrow, four-sided, tapering monu...

  • Sentinel Soldiers

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Civil War Monuments in Maine Monuments of Victory Sentinel Soldiers Obelisks and Columns Other Monuments [/expand] Fully two-thirds of Maine’s public Civil War monuments feature  the figure of a solitar...

  • Monuments of Victory

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Civil War Monuments in Maine Monuments of Victory Sentinel Soldiers Obelisks and Columns Other Monuments [/expand] Northern Civil War monuments included very few human female figures.   Selected monument...

  • The Nuremberg Chronicles

       We are pleased to announce that we have posted “The Nuremberg Chronicle”, Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi [Liber cronicarum] by Hartmann Schedel, printed in 1493, to the website. &...