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How Maps Work, Cathy Moulder
How Maps Work, Cathy Moulder
Cathy Moulder
Training session for McMaster Museum of Art docents, in preparation for a museum display of rare maps: "The Evolution of the Cartography of the Gulf Region between the 2nd and 19th Centuries"
The Honourable Robert Edward Clifford (1767-1817): Maps And Mysteries, Cathy Moulder
The Honourable Robert Edward Clifford (1767-1817): Maps And Mysteries, Cathy Moulder
Cathy Moulder
Robert Clifford was an Englishman, a renowned map collector – and probably a spy. He lived a quiet scholarly life in Paris during the French Revolution and early years of the Napoleonic era. But his correspondence with John Graves Simcoe reveals an exciting escape from France in 1803 with a trunk of secret maps and plans. Could the maps in McMaster University Library's collection have been part of that daring escape?