----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Fri, 4 Mar 1994 10:18:07 EST <[log in to unmask]> said: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >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