Extremities of the Earth: The Hottest Place on Earth
Posted by: Julie Stoner
A blog exploring the hottest place on earth, Death Valley California.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Series: Extremities of the Earth
Archive: August 2023 (4 Posts)
From Childhood Fancy to Space Age Discovery
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post by Geography and Map Division summer intern, Wayne Hastings, who worked on processing and housing the John Parr Snyder Collection. Imagine this. During the summer of 1972, the United States was in the midst of one of the most wildly impressive eras of technological and scientific development – the Space …
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Guest Posts
Virtual Orientation: Maps in the Classroom
Posted by: Amelia Raines
Please join Geography and Map Division staff tomorrow for a virtual orientation to our collections and resources! Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Time: 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) Location: Zoom Register for this session here! Join us for a virtual orientation that will provide an introduction to the world’s largest map library, this time with a special focus on …
Posted in: Events, Geography and Map Division
Exploring the First Printed Arabic World Atlas
Posted by: Carissa Pastuch
On the vault shelves of the Geography and Map Division between John Arrowsmith’s London Atlas of Universal Geography (1858) and a 19th century French jigsaw-puzzle map of the world made of wood, Atlas geographique, lies a 50 x 31 centimeter nondescript atlas in green binding. The hunter green lusterless cover may seem unremarkable, but open …
Posted in: 19th century cartography, Middle East and North African History