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Subject: RE: Birds-eye-view exhibitions and Future Festival of Maps
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:02:47 -0600
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Alice
I would love to see those exhibitions and hope I can. Have you seen
our Texas bird's eye views online? http://www.birdseyeviews.org/
I hope to soon be placing online Dallas historic air photos from the
1930s and 1940s. The way I plan it, these should be searchable via a
map grid and zoom-able with more than 3,500 landmarks identified.
By the way, the Chicago Festival of Maps where I last saw you truly
inspired me. What if every several years a different major city around
the country or across the world sponsored a festival of maps? I think
it would be grand, of course. One year New York, a few years later
Dallas, a few years after that, San Francisco, and so on.... Dawn
Dawn Youngblood
Dr. Dawn Youngblood
Curator, Edwin J. Foscue Map Library
Southern Methodist University
6414 Hilltop Lane
Box 135
Dallas TX 75205
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Subject: Re: Birds-eye-view exhibitions
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Subject: Re: Birds-eye-view exhibitions
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:50:38 -0500
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I can also highly recommend the Boston Public Library and Harvard
exhibitions! An amazing collection of wonderful views which draw you
in to
their world. At the Boston Public Library opening were all these folks
from
the various nabes shown in the views, and you could hear lively
discussions
about what was where, what was NOT there, what had been shifted to
emphasize a particular building or factory [well! Somebody PAID to
make
that happen!] etc., etc. A lot of fun to eavesdrop.
This is a "twofer" -- if you get to Boston and/or Cambridge you can
certainly make both shows. Just check on hours and availability before
making the trek! errr, trip.
And you can go to the Globe restaurant across Boylston from the Lib
for
lunch and a brew.
Alice
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
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Boston Rare Maps announcement
Dear Friends,
Boston Rare Maps has the privilege of being involved in two
map-related
exhibitions now on display in the Boston area: "Henry F. Walling and
the
Elevation of American Mapmaking" at the Harvard Map Collection, and
"Boston
& Beyond: A Bird's Eye View of New England" at the Boston Public
Library.
I hope you will be able to attend.
Sincerely,
Michael Buehler
Boston Rare Maps Incorporated
88 High Street
Southampton, MA 01073
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Henry F. Walling and the Elevation of American Mapmaking
Co-curated by Michael Buehler of Boston Rare Maps and David Cobb of
the
Harvard Map Collection, this exhibition uses maps and supporting
material
to document the prolific career of mapmaker Henry Frances Walling
(1825-1888). Arguably the most accomplished and interesting American
mapmaker of the mid-late 19th century, Walling was responsible
responsible
for at least 117 large-scale maps of American towns and counties,
nearly 20
state maps and atlases, substantial contributions to the work of the
U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, and
important
academic publications.
This exhibition will be on display through April 1, 2008 at Harvard's
Pusey
Library, located on the main campus adjacent to Widener Library. A map
of
the Harvard campus may be found at
http://map.harvard.edu/level2.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&series=W.
Admission to the Library is free but requires presentation of a
picture ID.
Boston & Beyond: A Bird's Eye View of New England
Sponsored in part by Boston Rare Maps, this exhibition by the
Leventhal Map
Center at the Boston Public Library celebrates one of the world's
pre-eminent collections of bird's eye views. The story told in the
exhibit
is of the growing economic vitality and urbanization of the Boston and
New
England region during the last half of the 19th century, when
industrialization and immigration were the primary engines of urban
growth.
This free exhibit at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square will run
daily through June 2008. Boston Rare Maps, along with the
Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities, is supporting the lecture series
accompanying the exhibition.
March 4: Ronald Grim, Curator of the Leventhal Map Center, "Which
Way North?"
March 18: Debra Block, Director of Education of the Leventhal Map
Center, "Time Shifts: A Changing America, 1855-1900"
April 9: Alex Krieger, Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate
School of Design, "As Though in Flight: 19th Century American Urban
Views"
All lectures will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Library's Abbey Room
and
be followed by a gallery tour of the exhibit.
A virtual tour of Boston and Beyond will appear on the Leventhal
Center
website within the next few weeks (http://maps.bpl.org/ex/exhibit/).
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