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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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