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On Fri, 4 Mar 1994 10:18:07 EST <[log in to unmask]> said:
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>Columbia University's Butler Library, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Kempner
>Exhibition Room, is now displaying "The World on Paper, A celebration of the
>mapmaker's art." The exhibit will be open from March 3 to June 3, 1994. Some
>50 rare maps, you know...Blaeus, Orteliuses, Olivas, etc...those guys, are on
>display, with excellent descriptive label text. The hope is that soon the text
>material, perhaps accompanied by illustrations, will be published. Mead Cain
>is the curator of the exhibit, and Jean Ashton, formerly of the New-York
>Historical Society Library is the Curator for the Rare Book & Manuscript
>Library.  The opening was last night in the middle of the latest snow
>storm...need I say more? But there was a nice crowd, including local Map
>Society and Mercator Society members, who will brave even a nor'easter to gawk
>at old maps. So if you are in town, aim for Spring, do stop by the Butler
>Library, at the south end of the Columbia campus, to see this exhibit. If
>perchance the guard hesitates to let you in to the rarified Columbia
>collections, invoke Jean Ashton's name, and go right up!
 
Perhaps someone could be talked into converting this exhibit for the
enjoyment of World-Wide Web users?  The LOC exhibits which were similarly
treated are very nice.
 
Dennis