NPR has a brilliant piece today by Robert Krulwich on mapping regional communities in the USA, both by tracing the limits to the circulation of dollar bills and patterns of telephone usage.Dirk Brockmann, at Northwestern processed the data ...
"You Are Here: Maps and Meanings" is a new exhibition, running 2 April to 9 November 2013, at the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The exhibition is open 9 am–4 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. From the blurb:We all use maps to find our way. Yet ma...
Language Log has a piece today on the mis-use of "unchartered" (without a charter) when people mean "uncharted" (without a map).The OED entry on "uncharted" ~ and especially "uncharted territory" ~ has not been updated since 1921, when the word was s...
The Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Cartography Corner: K-12 Education Outreach Newsletter is now available for download....
We're very pleased to announce that OML has recently received an impression of a very rare map of the Atlantic, published in Amsterdam ca.1630, by Willem Blaeu (OS-1630-8).As far as we can tell from the literature, this is only the third known impres...
I was just grazing some of OML's online images, and for some reason decided to look at a map of Palestine, based on the original work ofTilemann Stella, from a later edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum (OML-1597-7). Among other things,...
We are very pleased to announce that an online version OML's 2012-2013 exhibition, Iconic America: The United States Map as a National Symbol; Highlights from the Fondersmith Collection of Cartographic Ephemera, is now installed on the OML website:Th...
Samplers ~ pieces of cloth embroidered with alphabets, maxims, or floral designs ~ were made by girls as part of their education throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (I can remember my infant-school class, in London, making samplers wh...
Search for these maps in Osgood to find more information and high resolution images.The Seat of War in New England by an American Volunteer with the Marches of the several corps sent by the colonies towards Boston with the attack on Bunkers...
So, you learn something everyday! A post at the Folger Library's blog by John Hunt (University of Louisville) discusses a 1670 map ~ with several vignettes ~ designed to inform a growing public about the rituals and procedures of Papal Conclaves. Tod...
