Blog

  • World Builder Summer Camp 2024

    It was a landmark summer for OML's education team for many reasons, not the least of which was the launch of our Worldbuilders Summer Camp! Fifteen amazing campers joined us for a week in early August, and we couldn't have asked for a better group of...

  • Internship Reflection – Krystal Pugh

    By Krystal Pugh, 2024 Spring Intern at the Osher Map Library  As I began my internship at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education (OML), I was excited to gain experience in the field of public history, but wasn’t sure wh...

  • Moses and Ebenezer Greenleaf Manuscript Surveys

    By Roberta Ransley-Matteau, Cartographic Cataloger at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education “Long and attentive inquiry and observation had convinced the writer, that the real value and character of the ex...

  • “God Save Ireland:” An Irish Nationalist Broadside

    Chris. A. Gallagher, “God Save Ireland,” Minneapolis: Emerald Publishing Company, 1895. Osher Map Library Collection, University of Southern Maine. Gina Marie Guadagnino, MFA, MA, is Chief of Staff and Executive Director of Public Affairs in the...

  • A Glimpse into the Social History of mid-Nineteenth Century America through Trade Cards and Advertisements

    Safford Automatic Draw Bar Co. Business Card [front], 1893 Garrett Jones is a senior History major at the University of Southern Maine; he interned at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education during the spring 2023 semest...

  • Interview with a Vault Manager

    Detail: "Historical-Pictorial Map of Pennsylvania" from "Pennsylvania : Sunoco road map and historical scenic guide," 1948 If you have ever visited us in person, it's likely that you've met Bob Spencer in the Reading Room. He has been with Os...

  • Who Made These Maps? Archival Recovery and a Manuscript Atlas of the World, ca. 1830

    "Sarah R. Allen, Map of North America, from "Manuscript Atlas of the World", ca. 1830. Who Made These Maps? Archival Recovery and a Manuscript Atlas of the World, ca. 1830 Louie Miller is the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic...

  • Mapping and Community in North Haven

    "Summer Resorts of the Coast, Lake and Mountain Regions along the Boston & Maine Railroad and Connections March 1, 1910" Mapping and Community in North Haven Gabrielle (Brie) Robichaud is the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartogra...

  • Portland in 1836: John Cullum’s Pictorial Map

    A Map of the City of Portland with its Latest Improvements, engraved and published by John Cullum, 1836. Portland in 1836: John Cullum’s Pictorial Map Matthew Edney is Professor of Geography and Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at t...

  • On Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland and True Places

    Bernard Sleigh, An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland : Newly Discovered and Set Forth, 1918. On Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland and True Places Katherine Peters teaches world literature and writing as adjunct faculty in the English Department...