Also of note -- a site showing a variety of maps about the development of the subway.
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Archive for September, 2007
Historical Mapping of New York Subway
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
If you haven't visited before, The Map Room is an excellent blog on all things to do with maps, and often posts items about antique maps. Earlier this week they posted about an animated map of the New York subway , showing graphically how it developed.
Also of note -- a site showing a variety of maps about the development of the subway.
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Also of note -- a site showing a variety of maps about the development of the subway.
Technorati Tags: New York City Subway, vintage maps,
antique maps, antique prints
Antique Maps & Antique Prints News
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Antique Maps & Antique Prints Upcoming Events
September 27, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Charles H. Lindbergh and his Flying Maps, an illustrated lecture presented by Ralph Ehrenberg, former chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, and former director of the Cartographic Archives Division of the National Archives. Over his lifetime, Lindbergh amassed an important collection of early aeronautical maps, now housed, among other institutions, at the Smithsonian Institution. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.
October 5 - 6, Arlington, Texas. Annual fall meeting of the Texas Map Society. Email Kit Goodwin for information.
October 11, Alexandria, Virginia. 7:30 pm, The Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street in Old Town. Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map in Light of Aboriginal America. A presentation by Dr. Stephen Potter, Regional Archaeologist for the National Parks Service. For more information, email Ruth Reeder, museum educator, or call 703-838-4399.
October 13, New York. The New York Map Society meets at 2:30 pm., New York Public Library, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Norse Discovery of America, a lecture by Neil Good. for details, email Sy Amkraut.
October 17, Toronto. 5:00 pm. The Upper Canada Map Society tours the City of Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road (north of Dupont). The tour includes a viewing of selected cartographic items. For more information, email Megan Webster.
October 18, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Recent Advances in Washington's GIS Mapping, a lecture by D.C.'s GIS program manager, Barney Krucoff. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.
October 25, Oxford. 5:00 - 6:30 pm. The 15th Annual Series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Cartographic veracity in medieval mapping: new findings from digitizing the Gough Map of Great Britain. A lecture by Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast). For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
October 30, Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. 5:30 pm. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool. A lecture by David Beckingham (Research Student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and Emmanuel College). will discuss All are welcome. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.
Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.
For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.
Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs
September 29, Philadelphia. Philadelphia Book and Paper Show. Pennsylvania National Guard Armory, Southampton & Roosevelt Streets. Information: 215-757-1132.
September 30, Lansing, MI. Michigan Book Fair. 333 East Michigan Ave.
October 6, Allentown, PA. Book, Paper & Advertising Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds. 610-706-0214.
October 6-7, Forth Worth, TX. North Texas Book & Paper Show. Will Rogers Complex, Amon Carter Jr. Exhibits Blg. Forth Worth.
October 7, New York. Collectible Paperback & Pulp Expo. 440 West 57th St. (Bet 9th & 10th Avenues).
October 19 - 20, New York. West Side Book & Ephemera Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 110 West 19th St. For information, email or call 413-528-2327.
October 21, Northampton, MA. The Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St., (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA. For information, email or call 631-261-4590.
October 26 - 27, Las Vegas. Booksellers Association of Southern Nevada: Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-444-9415.
October 26-27, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The Greater Princeton Antiquarian Book Fair.The New Jersey National Guard Armory, 151 Eggert Crossing Road, Lawrenceville.
October 27, York, PA. York Book & Paper Fair. Old Main Bldg., Carlisle Ave (Rte 74). 717-285-2255.
Auction Calendar
September 18 - 26, Internet. Old World Auctions. Online auction of antique maps and prints.
September 26 - 27, London. Christies. Exploration and Travel.
September 27, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Charles H. Lindbergh and his Flying Maps, an illustrated lecture presented by Ralph Ehrenberg, former chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, and former director of the Cartographic Archives Division of the National Archives. Over his lifetime, Lindbergh amassed an important collection of early aeronautical maps, now housed, among other institutions, at the Smithsonian Institution. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.
October 5 - 6, Arlington, Texas. Annual fall meeting of the Texas Map Society. Email Kit Goodwin for information.
October 11, Alexandria, Virginia. 7:30 pm, The Lyceum, 201 South Washington Street in Old Town. Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map in Light of Aboriginal America. A presentation by Dr. Stephen Potter, Regional Archaeologist for the National Parks Service. For more information, email Ruth Reeder, museum educator, or call 703-838-4399.
October 13, New York. The New York Map Society meets at 2:30 pm., New York Public Library, Classroom B, in the South Court's Celeste Bartos Education Center, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City. The Norse Discovery of America, a lecture by Neil Good. for details, email Sy Amkraut.
October 17, Toronto. 5:00 pm. The Upper Canada Map Society tours the City of Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road (north of Dupont). The tour includes a viewing of selected cartographic items. For more information, email Megan Webster.
October 18, Washington. The Washington Map Society. 7:00 pm. Geography and Map Division, B level, Library of Congress, Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue. Recent Advances in Washington's GIS Mapping, a lecture by D.C.'s GIS program manager, Barney Krucoff. For further information, email Howard Lange, or call 703-532-1605.
October 25, Oxford. 5:00 - 6:30 pm. The 15th Annual Series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography. University of Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road. Cartographic veracity in medieval mapping: new findings from digitizing the Gough Map of Great Britain. A lecture by Keith Lilley (Queen's University Belfast). For more information, email Nick Millea, Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
October 30, Cambridge, England. The Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography. 5:30 pm. Harrods Room, Emmanuel College, St Andrew's Street. Cartography as a tool of social reform: drink maps of nineteenth-century Liverpool. A lecture by David Beckingham (Research Student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and Emmanuel College). will discuss All are welcome. For more information, email Sarah Bendall.
Antique Map & Print Exhibitions.
For a full listing, please visit current exhibitions for antique maps & prints.
Antiquarian Book & Map Fairs
September 29, Philadelphia. Philadelphia Book and Paper Show. Pennsylvania National Guard Armory, Southampton & Roosevelt Streets. Information: 215-757-1132.
September 30, Lansing, MI. Michigan Book Fair. 333 East Michigan Ave.
October 6, Allentown, PA. Book, Paper & Advertising Show. Agricultural Hall, Allentown Fairgrounds. 610-706-0214.
October 6-7, Forth Worth, TX. North Texas Book & Paper Show. Will Rogers Complex, Amon Carter Jr. Exhibits Blg. Forth Worth.
October 7, New York. Collectible Paperback & Pulp Expo. 440 West 57th St. (Bet 9th & 10th Avenues).
October 19 - 20, New York. West Side Book & Ephemera Fair. Metropolitan Pavilion, 110 West 19th St. For information, email or call 413-528-2327.
October 21, Northampton, MA. The Pioneer Valley Book and Ephemera Fair. Smith Vocational School, 80 Locust St., (Rt. 9), Northampton, MA. For information, email or call 631-261-4590.
October 26 - 27, Las Vegas. Booksellers Association of Southern Nevada: Antiquarian Book & Ephemera Fair. 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas. 702-444-9415.
October 26-27, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The Greater Princeton Antiquarian Book Fair.The New Jersey National Guard Armory, 151 Eggert Crossing Road, Lawrenceville.
October 27, York, PA. York Book & Paper Fair. Old Main Bldg., Carlisle Ave (Rte 74). 717-285-2255.
Auction Calendar
September 18 - 26, Internet. Old World Auctions. Online auction of antique maps and prints.
September 26 - 27, London. Christies. Exploration and Travel.
September 29 - October 9, Internet. Paulus Swaen. Online auction of antique maps and prints.
October 3, Gloucestershire, England. Dominic Winter Book Auctions. Printed Books, Maps, & Ephemera.
October 11, New York. Swann Galleries. Autographs.
October 11, San Francisco. PBA Galleries. Fine Americana with Manuscripts & Autographs.
October 30, Bath, England. Bonhams. Printed Books & Maps, Part 1.
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Boston Public Library Receives $10 million For Map Center
Monday, September 10th, 2007
The Boston Public Library has received a $10 million gift, from real estate developer Norman B. Leventhal, to help make permanent the library's home for the Norman B. Leventhal map center.
The Center was founded in 2004, with seed money from Leventhal, and the library. He went on to donate his own collection, valued around $4 million, plus an additional $3 million of his own money.
Today's $10 million gift puts the Leventhal Map Center on solid footing, providing income to "support the Map Center's mission of using maps to better understand human history, civilization and the world in which we live."
The Leventhal Map Center houses one of the country's most significant collections of antique maps, including more than 200,000 individual maps, and over 5,000 antique atlases.
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The Center was founded in 2004, with seed money from Leventhal, and the library. He went on to donate his own collection, valued around $4 million, plus an additional $3 million of his own money.
Today's $10 million gift puts the Leventhal Map Center on solid footing, providing income to "support the Map Center's mission of using maps to better understand human history, civilization and the world in which we live."
The Leventhal Map Center houses one of the country's most significant collections of antique maps, including more than 200,000 individual maps, and over 5,000 antique atlases.
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antique maps, antique prints, Norman Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
Futurama is Coming Back to TV…and Toy Stores!
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007The popular cartoon series Futurama is returning to television with new episodes in 2008 on Comedy Central. Other more adult themed cartoon shows, including The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, and…
“Goonies” Action Figures Never Say Die
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Just because a movie is over twenty years old doesn’t mean it’s too late for action figures to be produced. Mezco is producing action figures and prop replicas based…