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>Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:26:09 -0500
>From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: English maps on exhibit at NYPL
 
 
 
 
     This coming Saturday, November 14, the Washington, New York and Boston
     Map Societies have been invited to visit the exhibit on English maps
     at NYPL.
 
     Folks in the New York metropolitan area on these three lists are
     invited to join us. We will have coffee, tea and mini-somethings
     [muffins?] in the Trustees Room on the second floor from 10:30 until
     11 or so. Then you are on your own to tour the exhibit, "In thy map
     securely saile," on view in the Salomon Gallery, Room 316, from 10-6
     that day.
 
     The exhibit will be up until March 20, 1999,[except for Sundays and
     holidays] but if you want to join a friendly bunch of mapnerds on a
     Saturday morning, please do join us.
 
     The maps date from the reign of Elizabeth I [of movie fame] to George
     I [of U.S. Presidency fame] or, more correctly, George III of American
     Revolutionary fame. Some 100 maps, atlases, globes and nautial manuals
     are on display. The featured character is John Seller, London map,
     chart and instrument maker and seller. To coin a phrase. Anyway, come
     on down and join us.
 
     The New York Public Library, Center for the Humanities, 5th Avenue and
     42d Street. Use the 5th Avenue entrance so as not to miss the
     stunning, if I do say so myself, banner; and the glorious Astor Hall
     on your way upstairs to the second floor Trustees Room, or third floor
     exhibition. Stop by the map division in Room 117 before you leave.
 
     Alice Hudson
     Chief, Map Division
     Curator, In thy map securely saile
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