The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish mercantilism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was also the golden age of Dutch and Flemish cartography. Unrestricted by feudal regulations, the Netherlands became the central warehouse of European trade, ...
One aspect of the cultural ferment of the Renaissance was the expansion of Western Europe's world view to encompass Africa, Asia, and ultimately the New World. With the breaking of the medieval cartographic framework, geographers returned to a Classi...
My interest in maps began when I was eight years old. My grandfather sent me his bound volumes of the National Geographic magazine, dating from 1903 to 1935, and their maps became a constant source of learning and pleasure as I grew up. After graduat...
CommentsPlease send any comments about this web site, its content or its design, to Matthew H. Edney. All comments are very welcome!About the Logo The exhibition logo is taken from a vignette on item 37: Thomas Sedgewick Steele and W. R. Curtis, Map ...
The paper companies of northern Maine were formed in the 1890s by combining both private and public lands so as to effect economies of scale. Most important, the new companies replaced the small log dams with very much larger concrete and steel dams,...
European knowledge of the interior of northern New England was sparse before the French and Indian War (1756-63). This can be seen in the representation of Moosehead Lake. The map was nonetheless the most comprehensive image available in the 1780s an...
The use of the Maine Woods by lumbermen and sportsmen in the twentieth century was much more intense than it had been before 1900 (see III and IV). The railroad and steamship companies not only gave ease of access, they also actively promoted the reg...
Before the Civil War, a few travelers -- notably Henry David Thoreau and James Russell Lowell -- sought the "wilderness experience" of northern Maine. The trickle became a flood after 1870 as entrepreneurs began to promote the Moosehead Lake region f...
Before the American Revolution, Moosehead Lake was passed through by Europeans who followed Native American routes between the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Maine. After the War of 1812-14, land speculators from Boston began to assess and divide up th...
Arriving at Moosehead Lake shortly after the retreat of the glaciers, approximately 11,000 years ago, Native Americans found Mt. Kineo. The mountain became a spiritual center for Native American life. Its distinctive volcanic rhyolite proved to be a ...
