Early Mapping of
New England and Connecticut
October 2000 - January 2001
HITTING THE ROAD
Road Maps From the Map Collection of Yale University Library
On display from November 1999 to January 2000 in the exhibit cases in
Sterling Memorial Library entrance to the stacks. Among the many
treasures of the Library is a collection of nearly 10,000 road maps dating
back to the turn of the century. Most of these maps are the maps issued
by oil companies and distributed free to motorists. Displayed here are
several representative examples that reflect America�s love affair with
the automobile.
A complete listing of the maps in this exhibit along with the accompanying
text can be found
here.
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INFINITE PERSPRCTIVES
Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking
Featuring maps included in the book Infinite Perspectives, by Brian M.
Ambroziak and Jeffrey R. Ambroziak. New York: Princeton Architectural
Press, 1999. Jeffrey Ambroziak is a New Haven attorney and inventor of
a new three-dimensional cartographic technique. The first part of his
book, Infinite Perspectives, is a comprehensive overview of the history
of relief mapmaking. The second part of the book, on digital mapping,
contains some twenty plates utilizing the Ambroziak Infinite Perspective
Projection that can be viewed with 3-D glasses. Many of the illustrations
in the historical section of Infinite Perspectives are of maps from the
Yale Map Collection. Some of those maps are displayed in this exhibit.
Most of the text is also taken from the book
A complete description of this exhibit can be found
here.
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Cartographical Curiosities
Selections from the Map Collection's odd, curious, and fanciful maps were
on display in the Exhibition Corridor of Sterling Memorial Library from
April to July, 1998.
A complete listing of the maps in this exhibit along with the accompanying
text can be found here.
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The Eye of the Beholder:
Western Maps of Africa
This exhibit, on display from December 1997 to January 1998, featured
historical maps of Africa which demonstrate the changing perceptions of
Africa by the West. The exhibit was presented in conjunction with the
Yale University Art Gallery's
exhibition,"Baule: African Art, Western Eyes." It explored the images
that Western European explorers, missionaries, and cartographers had of
Africa from the fifteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
Click here to find a selection of the maps
used in this exhibit, as well as the complete text of the exhibit as
it appeared in the display cases in Sterling Memorial Library.
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Early Maps of China & Japan
Dr. Jonathan T. Lanman, Yale '40, Yale Medical School '43, was a man of
many talents and interests. An eminent physician, he was professor and
chairman of the pediatrics department at the Down State Medical College
of the State University of New York, and later director of the Center
for Research for Mothers and Children at the National Institutes of Health.
His experience as a medical officer in the Far East during World War II
kindled a life-long interest in the Orient. Over the years, Dr. Lanman
collected Japanese and Chinese maps, prints, and early travel accounts
of voyages to the East, as well as important 16th and 17th century European
maps and globes. His outstanding collection, along with an endowment for
its support, came to Yale as a gift from his family in 1989, and was on
exhibit in Sterling Memorial Library in the winter of 1997. Click
here
to see an index of the maps which were on display in this exhibit.
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