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American Treasures (Exhibit Guide)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide). October 18, 2009 to August 21, 2010
Maps offer such compelling insights into the past that anyone, regardless of age or educational level, can enjoy and learn from them. To celebrate OML's renovation and expansion, this exhibition explores the library’s rich and varied collections and its mission to preserve those collections and make them accessible.
Curated by Matthew Edney.
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Settling the Maine Wilderness (Poster)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Poster advertising the publication of:
Settling the Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777-1834 by Walter M. Macdougall. Osher Library Associates, Occasional Publication No.3 (2006).
Poster features a reproduction of "Map of the State of Maine from the Latest and Best Authorities" (M. Greenleaf, Portland, 1820).
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ICHC 2003 - 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Program, Abstracts, and List of Participants)
International Conference on the History of Cartography
ICHC 2003 - 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Program, Abstracts, and List of Participants). 15-20 June 2003.
Hosted by Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University, and the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine. Text in English and French.
Since 1964, the biennial International Conferences on the History of Cartography have been the leading academic conferences in the field. They have been held in: London (1964 and 1967), Brussels (1969), Edinburgh (1971), Warsaw (1973), Greenwich (1975), Washington DC (1977), Berlin (1979), Pisa-Florence-Rome (1981), Dublin (1983), Ottawa (1985), Paris (1987), Amsterdam (1989), Uppsala-Stockholm (1991), Chicago (1993), Vienna (1995), Lisbon (1997), Athens (1999), Madrid (2001), Cambridge MA-Portland ME (2003), Budapest (2005), Bern (2007), Copenhagen (2009), Moscow (2011). The Osher Map Library co-hosted the 2003 ICHC with Harvard Map Collection.
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Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora (Exhibit Guide)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Exodus and Exile: The Spaces of Diaspora.
January 22, 2002 to January 5, 2003
Maps from the sixteenth century to the present can be used to explore different spatial aspects of diaspora ~ considered generally ~ through the experiences of Jews and African-Americans.
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Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery (Exhibit Guide)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology to Satellite Imagery. April 4, 2000 to January 11, 2001
The charts in this exhibition explore how mariners have distinguished one piece of water from any other, by determining what phenomena can be delineated across the vast, trackless ocean and by developing notations to express those phenomena.
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Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide).
February 23, 1999 - May 8, 1999
Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America.
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Worldly Treasures - A Fifth Anniversary Celebration (Mailer)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Worldly Treasures - A Fifth Anniversary Celebration (Mailer / Handbill for the Celebration)..
October 4, 1999 - March 24, 2000
What Makes a Map a Treasure? by Dr. Harold L. Osher (Monday, Oct. 4, 1999).
Marking OML's fifth anniversary, this exhibition displays a broad selection of its cartographic treasures. 'Treasure' is defined both literally (by value to collectors) and metaphorically (by intellectual value).
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Africa: A Continent Revealed (Exhibit Pamphlet)
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Africa: A Continent Revealed . Mapping the Continent from the 16th Century to the 21st Century (Exhibit Pamphlet).
January 21, 1998 to May 17, 1998
A Central Intelligence Agency Exhibit on the Portland Campus of the University of Maine.
This traveling exhibition traces the development of European mapping, from the 16th to the 21st century, of the African continent, or one fifth of the world's landmass.
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Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide)
Library of Congress and the Embassy of Portugal
Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective.
June 10 - November 29, 1997
Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America, particularly the area that today is the state of California.
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Jerusalem - Three Millennia of History (Exhibit Guide)
Osher Map Library
Jerusalem Three Millennia of History. Exhibit Guide to Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia of History.
April 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996
Sacred to Jews, Christians, and Moslems, the city has inspired a prodigious outpouring of prose and poetry, artistic renderings, and, of course, maps. This exhibition offers a selection of maps and views to celebrate the 3000th anniversary of Jerusalem's establishment as the capital of King David's unified Kingdom of Israel.
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The Cartographic Collections - The Harold L. and Peggy L. Osher Collection & The Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith Collection
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
The Cartographic Collections - The Harold L. and Peggy L. Osher Collection & The Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith Collection.
The Smith and Osher Cartographic Collections comprise fine specimens of original maps, atlases, geographies, and globes spanning the years from 1475 to the present.
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Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine
James E. Mooney
Maps, Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800 - The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M.C. Smith Cartographic Collection at the Smith Cartographic Center, University of Southern Maine.
Catalogued by by James E. Mooney with Foreword by Kenneth Nebenzahl, Introduction by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith.
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