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Geochemistry Of Archaeological And Marine Environments In Southwest Maine, Heather L. Bushie

Thinking Matters Symposium Archive

Two archaeological excavations for the University of Southern Maine collected sediment columns from select units for geological and chemical analysis. The Spiller Farms site is a Native American site located in Wells, Maine marking a transition period between the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, 12,000 BP. The Malaga Island site was a historic mixed-race community at the north end of Casco Bay where sediment columns were obtained in near-shore and subtidal zones. The samples obtained from Malaga Island have been radiocarbon dated to 3800 +/- 30 BP at 23 meters below the low-tide line. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis is being conducted …

The Paul Barker Ethnographic Research In Haiti, 1950s-1960s: Assessing The Usm Vodoucollection, Hannah Marcel

Thinking Matters Symposium Archive

The Collection was obtained by Paul Barker, a faculty member of the Gorham State Teachers College, during the period of 1950-1960s (see Figures 1-4, 7). It is compiled of religious artifacts mostly relating to Haitian Vodou, with a few objects from Africa and the Dominican Republic. Haitian Vodouis heavily influenced by aspects of African religions that traveled to the Americas on the slave trade. It shares some characteristics with Louisiana Voodoo, Santeria, and other Afro-Caribbean religions who were also influenced by religions being introduced to the Americas by means of the slave trade. Each religion developed distinct characteristics shaped by …

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

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

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

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

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

A childrens "primer" on the life of Moses Greenleaf, Maine's first mapmaker.

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

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 - 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

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 …

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.

Reading The World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Pieter Van Den Keere’S Map, Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula (Amsterdam, 1608/36)., Matthew Edney, Irwin Novak

Friends of OML, Occasional Publications

Proceedings of the first “Reading the World” conference (1994), edited by Matthew Edney and Irwin Novak, and published in 2001 by the University of Southern Maine on behalf of the Friends of the Osher Map Library.

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.

The Maine Coast, A Statistical Source, Maine Coastal Program

Maine Collection

The Maine Coast, A Statistical Source

Maine Coastal Program, Natural Resource Planning Division, Maine State Planning Office , Augusta, Maine

First Printing June 1978 - Second Printing September 1978

Contents: Preface / Introduction / Chapter 1 - Demography / Chapter 2 - Land Use and Taxation / Chapter 3 - Economy / Chapter 4 - Housing / Chapter 5 - Transportation / Chapter 6 - Education / Chapter 7 - Recreation / Chapter 8 - Social Services / Chapter 9 - Natural Resources / References / Index

Maine Population Projections, 1970-2020, State Planning Office, State Of Maine

Maine Collection

Maine Population Projections, 1970-2020

State Planning Office, Executive Department, State of Maine, July 1973.

Kenneth M. Curtis, Governor and Philip M. Savage, Director.

Contents: Introduction / Total Population Trends in Maine 1970-2020 / Natural Increase / Net Migration / Maine's Future Population / Population Projections by Planning and Development District / Projected Age Groups by Planning and Development District / Appendix

Also contains maps, figures, and tables.

Discussion Paper No. 3: The Geography Of The Children Of Detroit, Gwendolyn Warren

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

53 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, 28 cm

Discussion Paper No. 1: The Detroit Geographical Expedition, William Bunge

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

Illustrations, maps, 28 cm

A Report To The Parents Of Detroit On Decentralization, William Bunge, Yvonne Colvard, Susan Cozzens, Beverly Edward, Dwight Ferguson, Jerol Jordan, Marilyn Middlebrooks, John Trafton, Robert Ward, Gwendolyn Warren

The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute

No abstract provided.

The Oxford Hills And Other Papers, Charles E. Waterman

Maine Collection

The Oxford Hills and Other Papers

by Charles E. Waterman

Merrill & Webber Co., Auburn, Maine 1929.

Contents: The Oxford Hills / Mansion and Man / Androscoggin Valley Paper-Makers / Gem Stones of the White Mountain Foot Hills / Andrew Cragie

Parley's New Geography, Sheldon, Lamport, & Blakeman

Osher Map Library Collection Books

Full title:Peter Parley's Geography for Beginners.

With Eighteen Maps and One Hundred and Fifty Engravings.

160 pages: illustrations, maps