Donna Seger has a nice, illustrated essay on some of the nineteenth and twentieth-century maps on which octopoi are used to warn of the creeping and insidious territorial and cultural expansion of certain states. She pulled this one from the Universi...
The Image Permanence Institute has a new website called The Graphic Atlas, which is a resource designed to help in identifying printing techniques from the earliest printed images right up to the present. Do the "Guided Tour" and choose a printing te...
The large wall on the side of the Osher Map Library bears an etched Dymaxion Map, designed by Buckminister "Bucky" Fuller. Fuller created his wonderful projection from interlocking triangles and squares that (1) can be arranged in complex patterns so...
The following is a list of all the guest classes for USM courses to be taught at OML by Prof. Edney in the Spring 2013 semester:American & New England Studies 650 - Practices of Everyday Life - the historical evidence provided by fire insurance p...
The Cartographic Collection at the Boston Athenaeum is impressively displayed here. From the website: "This digital collection features representative items from the Athenæum cartographic holdings containing thousands of sheet maps, p...
A recent PBS story drew attention to the series of "Green Books" that guided African Americans through segregated America, between 1936 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. As Maria Goodavage noted in that story, the 1949 edition carried ...
OML friend and donor Richard Auletta has just sent news of a wonderful tumblr feed ~ Transit Maps: Showing You How to get from Here to There ~ devoted to images of transit maps. What I especially like is that, in addition to a wide variety of tr...
"Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges through some of today's wildest landscapes, telling the story of British mapmaking from the time of Chaucer through to t...
The WBEZ radio program This American Life produced a show on mapping which originally aired 04 September 1998. Presented are five stories on individuals engaged in unusual mapping: a mapper of the details of New York City sidewalks; a cartographer of...
McGill University has a nice portal for their collection of Canadian county attlases, In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Digital Atlas Project. A useful feature here is the ability to search the database for property owner...
