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...
The Kiss of the OceansThe postcard was a souvenir from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Found at Retronaut....
Lexington's Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library will on 16 March open a new, ongoing exhibition featuring "40 maps and related objects" from its collections: Journeys and Discoveries: The Stories Maps Tell. The exhibition has four main sect...
Anyone interested in the history of early maps will know Martin Waldseemüller's great 1507 world map, the known copy of which is the oldest surviving map to use the label "America" for any part of the New World. His subsequent work is the subje...
The iconographic use of globes continues ... here's a picture from The Guardian (6 March 2013) of a parade of models, during Paris fashion week, wearing clothes designed by Karl Lagerfeld. Led by the globe, the article was appropriately entitled, "Ch...
The akways useful Retronaut provides some interesting images concerning the London Underground:London Transport Infographics, 1912-1969The Evolution of the London Underground mapFirst Jounrey on the London UndergroundThe Osher Map Library holds many ...
Philippe Vandermaelen (1795-1869) created a six-volume Atlas Universel, published in Brussels in 1827. The atlas is well-known for its unique design in which every sheet is at the same scale. (Most atlases alter the scale of every sheet to fit t...
"Jerry's Map" is an incredible project by Jerry Gretzinger, who has been making a map of his own world for some thirty years [video]. He has just announced that the map will be installed at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro...
The Map Library has many maps and atlases of the American Civl War period. The following is a brief selection. Search Osgood (our online catalog) for more information about these and others from the period.Johnson’s New Military Map of the United S...
Anthony Robinson, of Penn State, is going to offer a free MOOC on Maps and the Geospatial Revolution, starting in July 2013. Dr. Robinson has also provided a YouTube video to explain the themes of the course.h/t Donna Genzma...
