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  • 4. The Celestial Indicator

    4. Henry Bryant, 1872 The Celestial Indicator Osher Collection: OS-1872-21 www.oshermaps.org/map/13344.0001 This armillary sphere (#4) not only shows the lines of the Earth, but it also shows the movements of the solar system. All eight plan...

  • 20. Globe Dresse par M. Robert De Vaugondy

    20. Charles Francois Delamarche, 1787 Globe Dresse par M. Robert De Vaugondy Smith Collection: SM-1787-8 www.oshermaps.org/map/2325.0001 This terrestrial globe, another product of Delamarche, was originally created by Robert de Vaugondy to vi...

  • 1. Wright’s New Improv’d Celestial Globe

    1. Gabriel Wright, 1782 Wright’s New Improv’d Celestial Globe Smith Collection: SM-1782-6 www.oshermaps.org/map/2323.0001...

  • 2. Erd-Globus

    2. Ludwig J. Heymann, 1880 Erd-Globus Smith Collection: SM-1880-26 www.oshermaps.org/map/2348.0001...

  • Mapping Maine: Exhibit Extras

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...

  • Section 3a – Moses Greenleaf’s Promotional Work

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...

  • Section 3b – Mapping the Interior in Detail

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...

  • Section 6 – The Persistence of the Penobscot

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...

  • Section 4 – Urbanization in Maine

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...

  • Section 5 – The Aroostook War and the Maine-New Brunswick Border, 1842

    [expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842 1. Early Colonial Encounters: The seventeenth century 2. Colonial and Early Republic: Mapping out the Penobscot 3. Moses Greenleaf, Independence, and Int...