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The Moses Greenleaf Primer, Holly K. Hurd
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.
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
American Treasures (Exhibit Guide). October 18, 2009 to August 21, 2010
Maps offer such compelling insights into the past that anyone, regardless of age or educational level, can enjoy and learn from them. To celebrate OML's renovation and expansion, this exhibition explores the library’s rich and varied collections and its mission to preserve those collections and make them accessible.
Curated by Matthew Edney.
Settling The Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, And His Household Of Faith, 1777-1834, Walter M. Macdougall
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 …
Settling The Maine Wilderness (Poster), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Settling The Maine Wilderness (Poster), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
Poster advertising the publication of:
Settling the Maine Wilderness - Moses Greenleaf, His Maps, and His Household of Faith, 1777-1834 by Walter M. Macdougall. Osher Library Associates, Occasional Publication No.3 (2006).
Poster features a reproduction of "Map of the State of Maine from the Latest and Best Authorities" (M. Greenleaf, Portland, 1820).
Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide).
February 23, 1999 - May 8, 1999
Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America.
Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal
Celebrating The Portuguese Communities In America: A Cartographic Perspective (Exhibit Guide), Library Of Congress And The Embassy Of Portugal
Osher Map Library Miscellaneous Publications
Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective.
June 10 - November 29, 1997
Although numerous countries and individuals were involved in the exploration and mapping of the Americas, it was the Portuguese who set the stage during the fifteenth century for the ensuing discoveries in the New World. Portuguese-born and sponsored explorers played a significant role, especially in charting a route around the southern tip of South America; in exploring and exploiting the waters bordering the northeast coast of North America; and in exploring the Pacific Coast of North America, particularly the area that today is the state …
Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Maine 175 - A Celebration Of 175 Years Of Maine Statehood, Osher Map Library And Smith Center For Cartographic Education
Osher Map Library Exhibition Catalogs
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
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.