There are two opposing positions in the debates swirling around the design of subway maps, and they are as inimical to each other as Good and Evil, Order and Chaos, Jedi and Trekkies. On the one hand are those that structure a subway system as a topo...
There is much more information about October's 18th series of Nebenzahl Lectures at the Newberry Library, Chicago.Entitled "The War of 1812 and American Cartography," the lectures will be held on 24-26th October, 2013, and will feature presentations ...
June 1 - August 24, 2013: Gallery & Cohen Center open from 10:30am to 2:30pmCurrent Exhibition (Gallery): Torn in Two uses historic maps, photographs, and prints to take a geographic and cartographic approach to exploring and illuminating the cau...
A collection of over forty color lithograph posters advertising war bonds from the First World War....
OML’s Digital Imaging Center has just uploaded volume one of the exquisite, eleven-volume Atlas Major, sive cosmographia by Joan Blaeu, published 1662-65 (SM-1662-9.1). This volume covers the Arctic, Norway and Denmark [van der Krogt, 2:601.1, OML ...
Alfred Korzybski (1933, 58) famously argued that "the map is not the territory." The full paragraph reads:"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure ...
In commemoration of the Civil War Trail throughout the state of Maine, the Osher Map Library has posted on its website all twelve issues of their Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War Star Series. This series was published in 1894 in celebrat...
Today's Portland Daily Sun (18 April 2013) has a nice feature about OML's new exhibition, Torn in Two....
NPR has a brilliant piece today by Robert Krulwich on mapping regional communities in the USA, both by tracing the limits to the circulation of dollar bills and patterns of telephone usage.Dirk Brockmann, at Northwestern processed the data ...
"You Are Here: Maps and Meanings" is a new exhibition, running 2 April to 9 November 2013, at the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The exhibition is open 9 am–4 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. From the blurb:We all use maps to find our way. Yet ma...
