RoySwkr
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I want to alert you to an exhibition I've been putting together
for the Harvard Map Collection of maps of the White Mountains. We'll
have 31 maps, starting with the 1677 Foster map of New England and
ending with Brad Washburn's 1988 map of the Presidential Range.
The opening date isn't yet entirely certain, but it will probably be
Tuesday, 25 April, and the exhibition should run for about three
months. The gallery is just outside the Harvard Map Collection's rooms,
and it's a good display area, but the entrance is about as obscure as it
could possibly be (mainly because the old main entrance was shut a
couple of years ago, I presume for reasons of security). You have to
enter through the west entrance of Lamont Library, near Widener and just
off Mass Ave., and then pass through a security check, where you sign in.
The exhibition draws on Harvard's collection and mine, with one loan
from the Boston Public Library. I've organized it into four broad
categories: early maps of New Hampshire that depict the White Mountains,
from before there were distinct maps of the region; topographic maps,
including hiking maps; tourist and souvenir maps; and thematic maps
(like maps of the geology of the region). There will be a number of
rare early AMC maps, like the 1910 map of the Great Gulf. I've been
paying particular attention the the depiction of trails. There will be
Harvard's newly discovered and restored Carrigain map, Bond's map, the
1861 Walling map of Coos County and his map of the White Mountains, a
19th-century relief map, plates from Hitchcock's Geological Atlas, a
Franklin Leavitt map, and Pickering's map.
Adam Apt
I want to alert you to an exhibition I've been putting together
for the Harvard Map Collection of maps of the White Mountains. We'll
have 31 maps, starting with the 1677 Foster map of New England and
ending with Brad Washburn's 1988 map of the Presidential Range.
The opening date isn't yet entirely certain, but it will probably be
Tuesday, 25 April, and the exhibition should run for about three
months. The gallery is just outside the Harvard Map Collection's rooms,
and it's a good display area, but the entrance is about as obscure as it
could possibly be (mainly because the old main entrance was shut a
couple of years ago, I presume for reasons of security). You have to
enter through the west entrance of Lamont Library, near Widener and just
off Mass Ave., and then pass through a security check, where you sign in.
The exhibition draws on Harvard's collection and mine, with one loan
from the Boston Public Library. I've organized it into four broad
categories: early maps of New Hampshire that depict the White Mountains,
from before there were distinct maps of the region; topographic maps,
including hiking maps; tourist and souvenir maps; and thematic maps
(like maps of the geology of the region). There will be a number of
rare early AMC maps, like the 1910 map of the Great Gulf. I've been
paying particular attention the the depiction of trails. There will be
Harvard's newly discovered and restored Carrigain map, Bond's map, the
1861 Walling map of Coos County and his map of the White Mountains, a
19th-century relief map, plates from Hitchcock's Geological Atlas, a
Franklin Leavitt map, and Pickering's map.
Adam Apt
Thanks again ... can't wait to check it out.
