May 15, 2012 ~ August 23, 2012 ... The Triumph of the Passenger Ship presents the experience of life aboard these grand vessels through a selection of the Morse Collection of ocean liner ephemera. Norman H. Morse assembled his collection of almost 3,...
March 14, 2009 ~ June 21, 2009 ... In the late 1800s, “Arctic fever” swept the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful,...
The exhibition was curated by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Valuable assistance was given by Peter Morelli, Rosemary Mosher, co_founder of Orbis LLC; Harold L. Osher as well as OML staff members G...
Drawn from the collection of Henry and Holly Wendt at the Sonoma County Museum, this exhibition presents thirty of the very first printed world maps, illustrating the ways in which early Renaissance Europe came to comprehend world geography. Env...
This exhibition invites visitors on a voyage beginning in 1540 with the very first exploration of the West Coast of North America by Europeans and represents the accumulation of knowledge leading to Thomas Jefferson’s commission of Lewis and Clark...
A Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education...
Conflicting Concepts of the Territory and Character of the U.S.A., 1790-1900Maps of the United States of America made by U.S. map makers in the nineteenth century embodied a truly important conflict in how Americans understood and conceptualized the ...
The word “diaspora” once referred exclusively to the repeated scattering of the Jews away from the kingdom of Judea. Today, “diaspora” has taken on a general meaning of the forced relocation of any people away from their homeland and into for...
Guest Curator - Robert FrenchAssociate Professor of Geography (Retired)at the University of Southern MaineLike jazz music, the automobile road map is an American innovation and is just as much a part of American culture. Road maps brought much needed...
Donald S. Johnson, guest curatorEveryone is familiar with maps and the information they contain, but few are aware of the nautical chart with its special characteristics and iconography. In the absence of land, one piece of water looks like any other...
