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  • Spanish Maps

     Are you a classroom teacher within the Greater Portland area? We are happy to lend high-quality printed reproductions of this map set at no cost as part of an Activity Kit for use in your classroom. The kit will also include a variety of age-ap...

  • Depictions of Indigenous People on Colonial Maps

     Are you a classroom teacher within the Greater Portland area? We are happy to lend high-quality printed reproductions of this map set at no cost as part of an Activity Kit for use in your classroom. The kit will also include a variety of age-ap...

  • 2021 Top Twelve – “People of the Dawnland: Wabanaki Tribes of the Northeast Coast” by Anna B.

    "People of the Dawnland: Wabanaki Tribes of the Northeast Coast" by Anna B. from Harpswell Curtis Memorial Library, Homeschool's class, 6th GradeCLICK HERE TO OPEN FULL SIZE IMAGE Image Preview: ...

  • York, Maine by Margaret L.

    "York, Maine" by Margaret L....

  • Pura Vida by Andy S.

    "Pura Vida" by Andy S....

  • Education Newsletter

    Loading… Note: By submitting your email, you are granting the education program at Osher Map Library & SCCE permission to email you with our regular e-newsletters. We will not share your email address. You may unsubscribe at any point by sendi...

  • 3. Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere 

    3. Charles Francois Delamarche, 1790  Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere Smith Collection: SM-1790-18  www.oshermaps.org/map/2327.0001 This French armillary sphere (#3) features two brass arms representing the Sun and the Moon in orbit around the Ear...

  • 5. A New Celestial Globe

    5. John Senex, 1770s-80s A New Celestial Globe Smith Collection:SM-1810-8 www.oshermaps.org/map/2331.0001 ...

  • 8. Charles Francois Delamarche

    8. Charles Francois Delamarche, 1799 Globe Terrestre Smith Collection: SM-1799-7 www.oshermaps.org/map/2328.0001 Charles Francois Delamarche was one the most successful French map and globe creators of the 18th century. Delamarche took over ...

  • 14. Loring’s Celestial Globe

    14. Josiah Loring, 1854 Loring’s Celestial Globe Smith Collection: SM-1854-57 www.oshermaps.org/map/49627.0001 Market demands led many globemakers to draw the constellations on their celestial globes incorrectly, facing outwards, to show a...