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Road Maps - The American Way, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs

Road Maps - The American Way.

February 13, 2001 to December 21, 2001

U.S. road maps have always emphasized a proud national history and have promised a glorious future, through the magic of the automobile. So get out the road map to plot your course . . . and don't forget to buy our brand of gas!

Guest Curator - Robert French.

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.

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.