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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 …
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.