Subject: | RE: Library of Congress to Exhibit Rare Abel Buell Map of the United States from 1784 |
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Date: | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:08:56 -0500 |
From: | Jennifer Gullickson <[log in to unmask]> |
To: | Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> |
Is
this still going, or was it just for the one day in October?
Jennifer
Gullickson, MLIS
Assistant
Librarian
Dominican
Theological Library
Dominican
House of Studies
487
Michigan Ave NE
Washington,
DC 20017
(202)
495-3822
From:
Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie
Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW
Milwaukee
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 4:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Library of Congress to Exhibit Rare Abel
Buell Map of the United States from 1784
The Library of Congress on Oct. 14 will open "Mapping a New
Nation: Abel Buell’s Map of the United States, 1784," an
exhibition featuring the first map of the newly independent
United States that was compiled, printed and published in
America by an American.
"Mapping a New Nation" will debut at the Library’s Columbus
Day Open House on Monday, Oct. 14. The
exhibition will be located in the Great Hall North Gallery on
the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St.
S.E., Washington, D.C. Free and open to the public from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, the exhibit is
ongoing, with no closing date.
Rare and historically important, the Abel Buell map also was
the first map to be copyrighted in the United States. Seven
copies of the map are known to exist, and this copy is
considered the best preserved and, therefore, is the most
frequently chosen for illustration of Buell’s work.
Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and managing
director of The Carlyle Group, purchased this map through an
auction at Christie’s in Manhattan in December 2010.
Rubenstein, a long-time supporter of the Library of Congress,
has generously placed the map at the Library so it can be
publicly displayed and, by digital technology, made available
for research purposes.
Prior to the sale, the map had been in the custody of the New
Jersey Historical Society since 1862. The remaining six copies
are held in research libraries.
Also on display will be four early maps of North America by
John Mitchell, Carington Bowles, Thomas Hutchins and William
Faden, which were created from 1755 to 1778. Buell most likely
consulted these maps when he engraved his large wall map. A
1784 map of the United States by William McMurray, which was
published nine months after Buell’s map, will complete the
exhibition.
An interactive program will be part of the exhibition and
will help to bring the map and its creator to life. Highlights
include:
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-157.html
Angie
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