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Norumbega News, No.17 (Fall 2013), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.17 (Fall 2013), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.17, Fall 2013
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
Norumbega News, No.16 (Spring 2012), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.16 (Spring 2012), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.16, Spring 2012
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
Norumbega News, No.15 (Fall 2010), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.15 (Fall 2010), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.15, Fall 2010
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
Norumbega News, No.14 (Spring 2010), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.14 (Spring 2010), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.14, Spring 2010
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
The Moses Greenleaf Primer, Holly K. Hurd
The Moses Greenleaf Primer, Holly K. Hurd
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
A childrens "primer" on the life of Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first mapmaker.
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.
Norumbega News, No.13 (Fall 2009), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.13 (Fall 2009), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.13, Fall 2009
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
Norumbega News, No.12 (Spring 2009), Osher Library Associates
Norumbega News, No.12 (Spring 2009), Osher Library Associates
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Issue No.12, Spring 2009
Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education
Portland, Maine
Settling The Maine Wilderness (Poster), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Settling The Maine Wilderness (Poster), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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).
Settling The Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, And His Household Of Faith, 1777-1834, Walter M. Macdougall
Settling The Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, And His Household Of Faith, 1777-1834, Walter M. Macdougall
Friends of OML, Occasional Publications
Settling the Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777-1834.
Osher Library Associates, Occasional Publication No.3.
For professor Macdougall, this book is the culmination of over twenty-five years of research and writing carried out during breaks from teaching at the University of Maine. By examining the cultural milieu of his time, he places Greenleaf's contributions within the context of Maine's growth and development during its formative years from province to statehood. This biographer also shares a kinship with Greenleaf on several counts. First is an appreciation for the land which Greenleaf held dear, since his …
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), International Conference On The History Of Cartography
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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 …
Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology To Satellite Imagery, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Charting Neptune's Realm: From Classical Mythology To Satellite Imagery, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
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.
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 (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.
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 (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.
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), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.
Maps Of Spain From The Enggass Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Maps Of Spain From The Enggass Collection, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Maps of Spain from the Enggass Collection.
September 2, 1998 to October 6, 1999
An exhibition tracing the cartographic evolution of Iberia through a series of maps, from 1486 through 1829, donated by Dr. Peter M. Enggass, professor emeritus of Geography and Geology, Mt. Holyoke College.
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 (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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 …
Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia Of History, Osher Map Library
Jerusalem 3000: Three Millennia Of History, Osher Map Library
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
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.
Jerusalem - Three Millennia Of History (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library
Jerusalem - Three Millennia Of History (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.
Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
Maine 175 - A Celebration of 175 Years of Maine Statehood.
September 5, 1995 - January 28, 1996
This exhibition is designed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Maine statehood using maps and other artifacts.
Maps and their creators have played an important role in the history of Maine from the time of the first visits by European mariners to the present. Explorers and mapmakers struggled first to take the measure of the land and then used maps to take possession of it. French and English officials put forward conflicting claims to Maine in the form of maps, as did …
The Land Of Norumbega - Maine In The Age Of Exploration And Settlement, Maine Humanities Council
The Land Of Norumbega - Maine In The Age Of Exploration And Settlement, Maine Humanities Council
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
The Land of Norumbega - Maine in the Age of Exploration and Settlement.
An Exhibition by Susan Danforth, Maine Humanities Council, Portland, Maine 1988.
This exhibition began in 1986, when the University of Southern Maine received an extraordinary collection of rare maps, atlases, and globes donated by Lawrence M.C. and Eleanor Houston Smith. In 1987, in response to a call from the National Endowment for the Humanities for programs relating to the Columbian Quincentenary, the Maine Humanities Council submitted a proposal for the "Land of Norumbega" project.
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
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
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.