Philippe Vandermaelen (1795-1869) created a six-volume Atlas Universel, published in Brussels in 1827. The atlas is well-known for its unique design in which every sheet is at the same scale. (Most atlases alter the scale of every sheet to fit t...
"Jerry's Map" is an incredible project by Jerry Gretzinger, who has been making a map of his own world for some thirty years [video]. He has just announced that the map will be installed at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro...
The Map Library has many maps and atlases of the American Civl War period. The following is a brief selection. Search Osgood (our online catalog) for more information about these and others from the period.Johnson’s New Military Map of the United S...
Anthony Robinson, of Penn State, is going to offer a free MOOC on Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, starting in July 2013. Dr. Robinson has also provided a YouTube video to explain the themes of the course.h/t Donna Genzma...
Plymouth State University's Lamson Library has a new exhibition, 1 February through 31 March 2013, entitled Mapping Africa: Myths and Realities. According to the notice, itfeatures fourteen antique maps from the collection of Dr. Richard A. Lobban, J...
The Winterthur Museum, in Delaware, will host a major new exhibition Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience, 20 April 2013 to 5 January 2014. The museum's website for the exhibition reveals the variety of forms taken by m...
"Standing navigation on the end of a needle" is an installation by Cynthia Davis at the Coleman Burke Gallery, in the Fort Andros complex (right beside Frontier cafe), Brunswick, Maine, until 16 March 2013. As the gallery's brief write-up explains, ...
I just found myself writing an email to a US grad student who will be attending their first International Conferences on the History of Cartography [ICHC], offering some advice that should perhaps be more broadly disseminated. So, I have decided...
One of my favorite historians/comedian actors, yes Mr. Monty Python himself Terry Jones did a series called 'Terry Jones Great Map Mystery.' Espisode One covers the John Ogilby's ribbon road map atlas. A copy of the very same atlas is available ...
World War I was not long over before Michelin was putting out guidebooks for the battlefield tourist. Thanks to donor Richard Auletta, the Osher Map Library has six in this series. They are sturdy cloth-bound guides featuring many photographs o...
