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The Manuscript Map Of The Dagua River. A Rare Look At A Remote Region In The Spanish Colonial Americas, Juliet Wiersema

Artl@s Bulletin

The Manuscript Map of the Dagua River Region (1764) is a hand-drawn map produced in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Nueva Granada. While created as visual testimony for a land dispute, I argue that a careful art historical reading of the Dagua River Map, considered in conjunction with eighteenth-century archival documents, nineteenth-century explorers’ accounts, and surviving historical maps, reveals other narratives about ethnicity, industry, and society in a remote region of a peripheral Spanish viceroyalty. The Dagua River map highlights the incontrovertible place that geography held for those—namely enslaved and freed Africans—who came to control trade and transport in the region, …

Cartographic Conversation, Jordana Dym

Jordana Dym

In 2012, the John Carter Brown Library celebrated the 50th anniversary of its fellowship program. In addition to organizing a panel for the June 2012 conference celebrating the anniversary, I curated a website of essays by former fellows working with historical cartography as a "Cartographic Conversation" engaging their research questions. My own essay addresses "Coastal Visions."

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.

Os Itinerários De Seis Grandes Expedições Científicas Realizadas No Brasil [The Itineraries Of Six Great Scientific Expeditions In Brazil], Karl M. Lorenz, Maria Inês H. Peixoto

Karl M Lorenz

Este trabalho apresenta representações cartográficas de seis principais expedições cientificas realizadas no Brasil entre os anos 1783 e 1866. As expedições representadas são as de Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius e Spix, Thayer, Natterer, e Wallace e Bates. Resumos breves das expedições acompanham os mapas.
This article presents cartographic representations of six major scientific expeditions conducted in Brazil between 1783 and 1866. The expeditions represented are those of Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius and Spix, Thayer, Natterer, and Wallace and Bates, and that of . Brief summaries of the expeditions accompany the maps.

Os Itinerários De Seis Grandes Expedições Científicas Realizadas No Brasil [The Itineraries Of Six Great Scientific Expeditions In Brazil], Karl M. Lorenz, Maria Inês H. Peixoto

Education Faculty Publications

Este trabalho apresenta representações cartográficas de seis principais expedições cientificas realizadas no Brasil entre os anos 1783 e 1866. As expedições representadas são as de Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius e Spix, Natterer, Wallace e Bates, e a de Thayer. Resumos breves das expedições acompanham os mapas.

This article presents cartographic representations of six major scientific expeditions conducted in Brazil between 1783 and 1866. The expeditions represented are those of Ferreira, Saint-Hilaire, Martius and Spix, Natterer, Wallace and Bates, and that of Thayer. Brief summaries of the expeditions accompany the maps.