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Subject: antiquarian map exhibition in Manhattan
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:01:24 -0500
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DOCUMENTING DISTANT LANDS
Maps of New Netherland, New Amsterdam and New England from the Walsh
Library, Fordham University

October 5 thru November 26, 2004

10 - 8 p.m.  Monday - Saturday

Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 W. 60, New York, NY 10023

The maps in this exhibition have been selected from the Library's
collection of rare maps that describe New England, New Netherland and New
Amsterdam. The are generous gifts of Bert Twaalthoven, a Fordham graduate
of 1953 and his wife Maria, who graduated from Marymount in 1954.

These beautifully graphic charts, printed on copper plates and hand
colored, span a century from 1556-1664 when the English gained control of
the territory and renamed it New York. Land masses and oceans are described
and identified with inserted images of Native Americans, records of flora
and fauna and vignettes of seventeenth century life in the harbor and city
of New Amsterdam. The maps will be on permanent display in the Walsh
Library Reference room on the Rose Hill Campus, Fordham University,
following this exhibition at the Lincoln Center Campus.

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, 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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