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Printed Maps Of The District And State Of Maine, 1793-1860, Osher Map Library

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Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine, 1793-1860.

March 8, 2011 to August 25, 2011

The early printed maps of Maine reveal the development of the state through expanding population and economy. They encompass a wide variety of works, from formal atlas and wall maps to ephemeral pocket maps and maps in newspapers.

Edward V. Thompson, Guest Curator.

The Coldest Crucible - Arctic Exploration In American Culture, Portland Museum Of Art, Michael F. Robinson

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The Coldest Crucible - Arctic Exploration in American Culture.

March 14, 2009 to June 21, 2009

In the late 1800s, “Arctic fever” swept the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. This exhibition paints a new portrait of these polar voyagers by placing them within the tempests of American cultural life.

In collaboration with the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine.

Mapping The Republic - Conflicting Concepts Of The Territory And Character Of The U.S.A., 1790-1900, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

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Mapping the Republic.

May 13, 2003 to May 29, 2004

Nineteenth-century maps of the U.S.A. embodied a truly important conflict in how Americans understood the republic: is it a collection of sovereign states or an expansive Union?

Curated by Prof. Matthew H. Edney.

Worldly Treasures - A Fifth Anniversary Celebration, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

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Worldly Treasures - A Fifth Anniversary Celebration.

October 4, 1999 - March 25, 2000

What Makes a Map a Treasure? Worldly Treasures features significant recent additions to the collection, most of them gifts from a variety of donors.

Curated by Prof. Matthew Edney, Dr. Harold L. Osher, George S. Carhart, Albert A. Howard, et al.

Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education

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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

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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.