Language Log has a piece today on the mis-use of "unchartered" (without a charter) when people mean "uncharted" (without a map).The OED entry on "uncharted" ~ and especially "uncharted territory" ~ has not been updated since 1921, when the word was s...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Civil War Monuments in Maine Monuments of Victory Sentinel Soldiers Obelisks and Columns Other Monuments [/expand] Thousands of monuments were created in every state and county throughout the Northern Stat...
The Fall/Winter 2014 issue of Cartography Corner: K-12 Education Outreach Newsletter is available for download. Archive: Cartography Corner: K-12 Education Outreach Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2014 Cartography Corner: K-12 Education Outreach Newsl...
The Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Cartography Corner: K-12 Education Outreach Newsletter is now available for download....
We're very pleased to announce that OML has recently received an impression of a very rare map of the Atlantic, published in Amsterdam ca.1630, by Willem Blaeu (OS-1630-8).As far as we can tell from the literature, this is only the third known impres...
Grade Levels: 9-12 Time Allotment: 1.5 to 2 hours Maine Social Studies Standards: C1, D1, E1 This lesson examines various kinds of thematic maps from the 19th century. It begins with an example of a Sanborn fire insurance maps, followed by a serie...
Return to K-12 Educational Resources Grade Levels: 9-12 Time Allotment: 60 to 75 minutes Maine Social Studies Standards: C1, C2, D2, E1, E2 This lesson uses European maps from before the American Revolution to show how Europeans saw the world a...
I was just grazing some of OML's online images, and for some reason decided to look at a map of Palestine, based on the original work ofTilemann Stella, from a later edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum (OML-1597-7). Among other things,...
We are very pleased to announce that an online version OML's 2012-2013 exhibition, Iconic America: The United States Map as a National Symbol; Highlights from the Fondersmith Collection of Cartographic Ephemera, is now installed on the OML website:Th...
April 2, 2013 to August 24, 2013 ... OML is pleased to present, as part of the 2013 Maine Civil War Trail, a subset of the exhibition of the same name, curated by Dr. Ronald E. Grim and originally installed in 2011 at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Ce...
