Portolan Indexes

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Chronological by Issue Number

1492 - An Ongoing Voyage, 25

1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited, 56

1791 District of Columbia Boundary Survey, 21

Abbey, Eleanor, 59

A Charter Member's Memories, 63

Acquisition of Cartographic Material from the Viewpoint of an Institutional Collector – The Library of Congress, 47

Acta Cartographica, 30

Adlum, John

Tanner, Soldier, Surveyor, Cartographer, Viticulturist, 46

Aerial Photography, History of, 8

Experimental Cartography in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918, 60

Aerial Reconnaissance and Map Making During the Civil War, 3

Aesthetics and Traditional Chinese Mapmaking, 20

Afghanistan

Maps of, in the collections of the Library of Congress, 59

Africa. See Maps of Africa to 1900

Africa - A Continent Revealed, 38

Afryqah (Africa)

The E-Book and the History, 51

Cartography, 40

Country Place Names in, 28

Early Maps (1490-1520), 43

Journey Into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), 60

Maps in Libraries in Brussels and Tervuren, 62

Reverend Thomas Wakefield - Unsung Geographer and Mapmaker in late 19th Century Kenya, 73

Africa: A Continent Revealed, 38

Afryqah (Africa)

The E-Book and the History, 51

Ala'i, Cyrus, 54, 67, 83, See Book/CD Reviews - Special Maps of Persia, See  Book/CD Reviews - General Maps of Persia

Alexander von Humboldt

Scientific discoverer and cartographer of the Americas, 82

Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria Archaeology Museum, 50

Charting Alexandria 1590-1999, 45

Land Disputes. See Historical Maps as Evidence

Maps in the John Carlyle House, 32

Allan Lee Collection of Map Stamps, 6

Allegories in 18th Century Map Cartouches, 32

Allen, David Y., 71, 79, 84

Altic, Mirela Slukan, 86, See Croatia

Alvin J. Johnson and His Role in 19th Century Map Making in America, 83

American Historical Geography. See The Articulate Traveller

Amerindian Maps: Indigenous Roles and Intercultural Significance, 26

Amusement of My Leisure Hours, 24

Analysis of Indian-White Land Transfers Using Cartographic Data, 16

Anderson, William, 69

Annotated Bibliography of Reference Books for the Beginning Antiquarian Map Collector, 63

Antique Map Price Record CD-ROM, 56

Antique Map Price Record Integration with OldMaps.com, 83

Antique Map Price Record: Twenty-Five Years of Tracking the Antiquarian Map Trade, 74

Antique Map Trade: An Insider’s View, 37

Antiques RoadShow, 58

Apianus World Map of 1520, 77

Appalachia

Putting Appalachia on the Map, 39

Arabian/Persian Gulf

Sheikh Sultan, Emir of Sharjah, on the Name of the Gulf, 48

Arctic

Explorer Vilhajalmur Stefansson, 12

Armitage, Geoff, 41

Articulate Traveller, The: Johann Georg Kohl and American Historical Geography, 27

Asia, Southeast

Early Mapping (Book Review), 48

Astrolabes, 10

Atlas

Atlases of A. J. Johnson, 49

Barrington Atlas - Mapping the Greek and Roman World, 50

Classical Atlas Project - Mapping the Greek and Roman World

Barrington Atlas, 49

Images of the World

The Atlas Through History, 2

U.S. Statistical Atlas of 1870, 55

Atlases of A. J. Johnson, 49

Auction Business Today, Map, 51

Augustyn, Robert T., 41

Australasian School Atlas

British School Atlases

Shaping Style and Map Content, 85

Australia

From Terra Australis Incognita to Whales and Shipping Routes - Cartographic Representations of the South Pacific, 1760-1860, 80

Navigating Tasman's 1642 Voyage of Exploration, 69

Regio Patalis

Australia on the Map in 1531?   (Early South Sea Voyages, or merely Cartographic Evolution?), 82

Royal Australian Survey Corps, 26

Austria

Atlas der österreichischen Gemütlichkeit, 59

Authority of Cartography in the Origins of the Modern British Exploration of Africa, 40

Badeslade, Thomas

Chorographia Britanniae - Maps of the Counties of England and Wales. Reprints of Thomas Badeslade, 19

Baesch, John F., 60, 75, 83

Bailey, Dan, 80

Baltimore Festival of Maps, 71

Banneker, Benjamin, 79

Barber, Maryke, 67

Barford, Megan, 80

Barnhart, Scip, 27

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, 50

Bartky, Ian, 58

Baruth, Chris, 15

Baskes, Roger, 68

Batchelor, Caroline, 74

Battlefield Survey of Chattanooga - Civil War, 66

Beautiful Symmetry - John Melish, Material Culture, and Map Interpretation, 73

Beck, Lauren, 84

Bederman, Sanford H., 69, 73

Belgium

Maps at Libraries in Brussels and Tervuren, 62

Belon du Mans, Pierre. See Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain

Benjamin Banneker – An American Figure of Thought – Myths and Stories, 79

Berg, Robert, 85

Berg, Scott W., 78

Berkeley Hotel, 24

Betz, Penelope, 58

Betz, Richard L., 51, 58, 72

Bible

Mapping the Holy Land Based on the, 35

Bibliography of Reference Books for the Beginning Collector, 63

Bibliothèque Royale Albert I - Brussels. See Maps at Libraries in Brussels and Tervuren

Biger, Gideon, 8

Biggest Map Collector

How Does the National Archives Decide What Maps to Keep?, 19

Black Book – Woodrow Wilson’s Maps for Peace, 82

Blaeu, Willem Janzoon

Biography, 60

Blake, Erin C., 54, 77

Blake, Jr., Melville E., 25

Blakely, Judith, 37

Bodenstein, Wulf, 60, 69

Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ, UK, 65

Bollaert, William

William Bollaert's  1842-1844 Texas Field Map, 72

Book/CD Reviews

A to Z of Antique Prints and Maps, 57

Alte Landkarten, 85

America Discovered - A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration, 62

America on the Map, 73

Antique Map Price Record CD-ROM, 56

Art of the Map

An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments, 86

Atlas der österreichischen Gemütlichkeit, 59

Atlas of Palestine, 63

Australia in Maps - Great Maps in Australia's History from the National Library's Collection, 74

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, 50

Black Book, The

Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace, 85

Book of Michael of Rhodes - A 15th Century Maritime Manuscript, 77

Boston and Beyond, 72

Britannia.  Reprints of Ogilby, 19

British Library Map Catalogue on CD-ROM, 47

Captain Cook - Explorations and Reassessments, 64

Cartographia - Mapping Civilizations, 71

Cartographic Innovations

An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900, 11

Cartographica Extraordinaire, 61

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation, 67

Cartographies of Tsardom, 68

Catalogo de cartographia, .. la Sociedad Bilbaina, 78

Census of Portolan Charts & Atlases, 75

Challenged Territories – Cartographies of Greece and the Levant during the Ottoman Era, 84

Charting Louisiana - Five Hundred Years of Maps, 59

Charting the Chesapeake, 19

Charts of War, 69

Chorographia Britanniae - Maps of the Counties of England and Wales, 19

Collecting Old Maps, 41

Columbus

Annotated Guide to the Scholarship on His Life and Writings, 1750-1988, 24

Commerce of Cartography - Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England, 64

Costa e arcipelago toscano nel Kitab i Bahriye di Piri Reis, 84

Courtiers and Cannibals, Angels and Amazons, 76

Covens & Mortier - A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685-1866, 78

Cristóbal Colón, Originario de Ibiza y Criptojudío, 48

Cyprus 1542 - The Great Map of the Island, 69

Das neu entdeckte Schlarraffenland, 61

Degrees of Latitude - Mapping Colonial America, 55

Descriptions of Slovenia on Military Maps of 1763-1787, 50

Early American Cartographies, 84

Early Mapping of Southeast Asia, 48

Early Mapping of the Pacific, 61

Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus

Medieval European Knowledge of America, 58

European Perceptions of Terra Australis, 85

Euskal Herria Museoa / Kartografia Biduma – Collection Cartografica /Collection Cartographique – The Map Collection, 79

Exploring the West, 13

Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek, 53

Eye of the Explorer - Views of the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-54, 80, 82

Finding their Way at Sea. The story of the portolan charts, the cartographers who drew them and the mariners who sailed by them, 86

Five Centuries of Maps & Charts of Croatia, 65

Formatting Europe – Mapping a Continent, 78

Four Colors Suffice - How the Map Problem was Solved, 57

Fourth Part of the World (Waldseemüller Map), 77

Fra Mauro's World Map, 72

General Maps of Persia, 1477-1925, 65

Geography in America’s Schools, Libraries, and Homes, 84

German Malta Maps, 83

Glimpses of History from Old Maps - A Collector’s View, 19

Graphische Zeichen auf mittelalterlichen Portolankarten-Ursprunge, Produktion und Rezeption bis 1440, 84

Greek Portolan Charts

15th-17th Centuries, 50

Hereford Map, 55

Historical Atlas of California, 79

History of Cartography - Enlarged Second Edition (Bagrow), 78

Images and Icons of the New World

Essays on American Cartography, 39

Imagining Mount Athos - Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, 81

Imperial Map - Cartography and the Mastery of Empire, 76

Island of Lost Maps, 49

Japoniæ insulæ. The mapping of Japan. A historical introduction and cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan before 1800, 86

Jews in America – From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage, 86

Johann Ruysch and Martin Waldseemüller World Maps – The Interplay and Merging of Early Sixteenth Century New World Cartographies, 86

Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515 – Transcription and Study, 81

Journal of the Croatian Cartographic Society - Vol 1, 59

Journey Into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), 60

Journeys beyond the neatline

expanding the boundaries of cartography, 81

Journeys of the Imagination, 66

Juan Antonio González Cañaveras Planisferio o carta general de la Tierra, Madrid 1800, 77

Kartografija i Geoinformacije. See Journal of the Croatian Cartographic Society

Keys to the Encounter

Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery, 24

Kitchener's Survey of Cyprus 1878-1883, 53

Kleiner Atlas Amerikanischer Überempfindlichkeiten, 78

La Gran Linea, 53

Last Great Cartographic Myth

Mer de l’Ouest, 82

Late 19th Century Atlases of Massachusetts Counties on CD - 1876 F.W. Beers Atlas of Essex County, 60

Leo Belgicus, 71

Les cartes portolanes, 72

Les Plans de Paris, 57

London – A History in Maps, 86

London - A Life in Maps, 70

Lost Empire of Atlantis, 85

Malta Map Society Newsletter, 83

Map Book, The, 65

Map Collector Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000, Heritage Map Museum, 49

Map World's Antique Map Catalogue for Collectors (CD), 79

Maphead

Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, 82

Mapmaker's Eye, 66

Mapping a Continent - A Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814, 73

Mapping and Empire - Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier, 65

Mapping Greece, 1420–1800

A History – Maps in the Margarita Samourkas Collection, 84

Mapping in Michigan & The Great Lakes Region, 79

Mapping Latin America – A Cartographic Reader, 83

Mapping Manifest Destiny -  Chicago and the American West, 74

Mapping of Taiwan

Desired Economies, Coveted Geographies, 85

Mapping the Footsteps of the Apostle Paul, 77

Mapping the French Empire in North America

An Interpretive Guide, 22

Mapping the Nation

History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America, 85

Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond - 2000 Years of Exploring the East, 62

Mapping the West, 56

Mapping the World - An Illustrated History of Cartography, 65

Mapping Virginia, from the Age of Exploration to the Civil War, 86

Maps - Finding Our Place in the World, 71

Maps and Mapping of Norway, 1602-1855, 78

Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani

A Descriptive Bibliography, 21

Maps in Books of Russia and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800, 84

Maps of Africa to 1900, 51

Maps of Cyprus from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 59

Maps of Malta from the Collection of Albert Ganado, 75

Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Paradigm, 54

Maps of the Imagination - The Writer as Cartographer, 62

Maps Relating to Virginia, 17

Maps, Myths and Men

The Story of the Vinland Map, 63

Marvel of Maps - Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy, 64

Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908, 58

Measuring America - How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy, 57

Mercator - The Man who Mapped the Planet, 57

Mercator Atlas of Europe – Facsimile of the maps by Gerardus Mercator contained in the Atlas of Europe, circa 1570-1572, 41

Miniature Antique Maps: An Illustrated Guide for the Collector, 38

Miniature Maps of Malta, 77

Mismapping of America, 58

Naming of America, 72

Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography, 67

Ortelius Atlas Maps – An Illustrated Guide – Second revised edition, 83

Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570–1641) – Characteristics and Development of a sample of on verso map texts, 76

Oxford Atlas of Exploration, 42

Oxford Companion to World Exploration, 85

Painted Prints

The Revelation of Color, 56

Petermann's Planet - A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings, 57

Pirî Reis and His Charts, 43

Pirî Reis Map of 1513, 49

Portolan Chart of Gabriel de Vallseca, 76

Printed Maps of Greece, 1477-1800, 78

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 1 - The Mid-Atlantic States), 60

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 3 – Indiana, Lower Michigan & Ohio), 75

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 4 -Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan), 83

Reality as Representation, 53

Records and History of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) CD-ROM, 50

Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, 63

Road to There - Mapmakers and their Stories, 60

Sailing for the East – History and catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602–1799, 80

Seeing the World Anew – The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps, 86

Seeing Through Maps, 54

Shadow of the Moon -  British Solar Eclipse Mapping in the Eighteenth Century, 41

Shedding the Veil - European Discovery of America and the World, 24

Some Ideas about the Far South Before the Western European Age of Discovery, 55

Sovereign Map, 68

Special Maps of Persia, 1477-1925, 80

Star Maps - History, Artistry and Cartography, 71

Strange Maps - An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities, 77

Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate, 68

Surveying the Shore, 68

Sweet Land of Cyprus

The European Cartography of Cyprus (15th-19th Century) from the Sylvia Ioannou Collection, 59

Testarossa, 73

Tooley's Dictionary of Map Makers - A-D, E-J, K-P, 59

Tooley's Dictionary of Map Makers - Vol IV Q-Z, 62

Torn in Two - 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, 81

Tours et Contours de la Terre, 48

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century, 84

Tropics of Empire -  Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, 74

Virginia in Maps

Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, 49

Voyage Long and Strange - Rediscovering the New World, 73

War Over Walloomscoick

Land Use and Settlement Pattern on the Bennington Battlefield - 1777, 22

Was Australia Charted before 1606?, 69

Washington Images

Rare Maps and Prints from the Albert H. Small Collection, 61

Washington in Maps, 56

Washington Sketchbook

Drawings by Robert L. Dickinson, 1917–1918, 85

Washington Through Two Centuries – A History in Maps and Images, 62

Wheel of Memory - The Hereford Mappemundi CD-ROM, 54

Who’s Who in the History of Cartography

The International Guide to the Subject (D9), 45

World Map - 1300-1492, 70

World Through Maps - A History of Cartography, 59

Writings of David Thompson - Volume 1 - The Travels - 1850 Version, 77

You are Here, 64

Books

An Annotated Bibliography of Reference Books for the Beginning Antiquarian Map Collector, 63

Expanding a Child’s World

a Selected Bibliography of Books Relating to Maps for Children and Young Readers, 81

Recommended Publications from the Personal Libraries of Washington Map Society Members, 75

Bordone, Benedetto, 37

Bornholt, Jens C., 54, 66

Bosnia. See NIMA's Role in the Dayton Peace Accords

Bossler, John D., 20

Boulay, Steve, 61

Boyd, David R., 59, 64

Bradley, Abraham, 77

Brandenberg, William, 75

Braun and Hogenberg

Civitates Orbis Terrarum", 10

Bressani, Father  XE "Canada:Analysis of recently identified copy of Bressani 1657 Map of New France" Francesco Giuseppe, 76

Bressani, Father Francesco Giuseppe, 61

Bringing the Past Forward - Historical Maps on the Internet, 55

Britannia Depicta, 85

Britannia.  Reprints of Ogilby., 19

British School Atlases

Shaping Style and Map Content, 85

Brodsky, Harold, 35, 51

Browder, William, 71

Brown, Wesley A., 61, 62, 85

Brückner, Martin, 73

Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle

Formatting Europe, 69

Sixth Aniversary Meeting 2004, 60

Bucholtz-Ludwig Map of Virginia and its Successors, 1858-1868, 68

Budd, Mark, 31

Buehler, Michael, 66, 68, 71, 77

Buisseret, David, 5, 22

Burnette, Ian, 67

Burnette, Rand, 73, 84

Burroughs, Charles A., 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 51, 62

Burroughs, Grace, 35, 86

Butler, Kris, 67

Caldwell, Larry, 77

California

Joint Meeting - Phillips Society & Calif Map Soc April 2000, 48

Map Collections, Scholarship, and Sales in, 6

California Trail, 38, 39, 51

Campbell, Major Albert H.

General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker- Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department, 60

Canada

Analysis of recently identified copy of Bressani 1657 Map of New France, 76

Bressani 1657 Map of New France, 61

Early Mapping of, 42

Klondike Road Maps - Selling Comfort and Convenience on the Route(s) to the Gold Fields, 67

Upper Canada Map Society Formed, 64

Canals

C&O Canal Map, 61

Cantino Map, 15

Captain Cupet and the King of Fire – Mapping and Minorities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, 84

Cardinal, Louis, 61, 76

Career of William Henry Holmes, 6

Caring for Maps on Paper, 54

Carletti, Francesco, 36

Carroll, Lewis

Cartographic Item from The Hunting of the Snark, 6

Cartobibliographies, Recent, 3

Cartocavatia (Map Ties), 71

Cartographic Community - Through a Glass Oddly (A Look at the "Island of Lost Maps"), 49

Cartographic Curiosities

Atlas der österreichischen Gemütlichkeit, 59

Das neu entdeckte Schlarraffenland, 61

Kleiner Atlas Amerikanischer Überempfindlichkeiten, 78

Last Great Cartographic Myth

Mer de l’Ouest, 82

Cartographic Education

Case Study of Transition from Mental Map to Web Based Mapping in Papua New Guinea for Cartographic Education, 53

Cartographic Evidence in a Wyoming Landform (and Cultural) Dispute, 37

Cartographic First Fruits of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, 64

Cartographic Innovations, 8, 11

An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900, 11

Cartographic Interpretation of the Columbus Signature, 22

Cartographic Libraries

Recommended Publications from the Personal Libraries of Washington Map Society Members, 75

Cartographic Resources for the Study of North American Indians, 22

Cartographic Shift to the Geospatial Paradigms (or Mapping Manipulations for the Masses), 33

Cartographic Textbook

Translation of, 28

Cartographic Traveler, 54

Cartography

Postwar (WW1) Cartography and the Struggle to Build (and Destroy) the World Picture - A Few Case Studies, 77

Cartography at The Margins: Johannes Schöner’s Annotations in the 1482 Ulm Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, 74

Cartography at the National Geographic Society, 3

Carto-Philately, 15

Introduction to Historical, 66

Cartouches

18th Century Map Cartouche Allegories, 32

Case of the Mason and Dixon Line ‘Mystery’ Markers, 5

Case Study of Transition from Mental Map to Web Based Mapping in Papua New Guinea for Cartographic Education, 53

Caspian Sea

Russian (Van Verden) Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, 83

Casten, Richard, 48

Çatalhöyük

Cartographic properties and current situation of the oldest picture map in Çatalhöyük, 75

Catalogues, Map Dealer, 66

Caverio, Nicolo de

Nauticul Chart of 1504. See Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516: Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought

Cavitt, Nick, 74

Celestial globe cup  from a catholic English monarch in Exile, 83

Centuriatio

Roman Land Surveys, 13

Ceva, Juan, 77, 78, 79

Chamberlin, Wellman, 56

Chang, Stephen Tseng-hsin, 41

Changing Face of Hudson Bay - Cartographic or Chronologic Dilemma?, 24

Charlottesville, Virginia

WMS Field Trip, 29

Charting Religious Horizons: Holy Land Maps from the Halperin Collection, 29

Charting the Americas

500 Years of Progress, 23

Charting the Chesapeake, 19

Charting the Chesapeake, 1590-1990 - exhibit, 21

Chekin, Leonid S., 41, 68, 84

Cherkis, Norman Z., 50, 64

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 58

Chesapeake Bay

Charting the Chesapeake, 19

Charting the Chesapeake, 1590-1990 - exhibit, 21

Early Mapping of the, 32

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Chester, Lucy, 45

Cheves, Marc, 24

Chicago Area Cartographic Events - October 2001, 52

China

Aesthetics and Traditional Chinese Mapmaking, 20

Chinese Maps in the Library of  Congress, 62

Maps at the National Library of China, 60

Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China, 63

Portuguese Maritime Discoveries Along SE Coast (1513-1550), 41

Text and Image in Chinese Maps, 18

Travels

In Pursuit of Old Steles, 28

Chinese Maps

in the Library of Congress, 62

Text and Images in, 18

Chinese Maps in the Library of Congress, 62

Choiseul-Gouffier, M.G.F.A.. See Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain

Chorographia Britanniae - Maps of the Counties of England and Wales., 19

Circa 1492, Art in the Age of Exploration - exhibit, 22

City in Transition - Mapping the Nation's Capital from Civil War to the Creation of a Comprehensive Plan, 1861-1902, 72

City Maps: Ptolemy’s Cosmography in the Renaissance, 17

City of Magnificent Distances

The Nation’s Capitol, 23

Civil War Mapping, 27

Civil War, American

Aerial Reconnaissance and Map Making, 3

Battlefield Survey of Chattanooga, 66

Civil War Mapping, 27

Freedom's Tracks - A Map of the Underground Railroad, 64

General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker- Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department, 60

Gettysburg Battlefield Field Trip - Wash. Map Soc. - March 1987, 9

J. T. Lloyd's Map of Virginia, 76

Jed Hotchkiss Maps at Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 74

Library of Virginia’s Civil War Map Collection, 85

Mapping and Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign, 78

Marching with John W. Donn and Frederic W. Dorr - A Reminiscence of a Civil War Topographer, 66

Rapid Field Sketching, 40

Theater Map of the Gettysburg Campaign 1863, 59

Torn in Two – 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, 81

WMS Trip to Antietam, May 2005, 64

Clarke, Martha Vestal, 75

Classical Atlas Project

Mapping the Greek and Roman World, 49

Clocks

Maps on Antique American Grandfather Clocks, 77

Cohen, Paul, 11

Cohen, Paul E., 41

Cole, Daniel G., 16

Cole, Humphrey, 53

Collecting

John Hyman's Principles of Collecting, 50, 76

Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, 48, 62, 67, 76

Collector’s World., 33

Colonel James Wood: Colonial Surveyor and Founder of Winchester, VA, 33

Colton, J.H.

J.H. Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah, 62

Columbus, Christopher. See Discovery of the New World Through Old Maps

1477 Voyage to North America, 48

1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited, 56

Cartographic Interpretation of the Columbus Signature, 22

Columbus and the Depiction of Hispaniola and Cuba on the Pirî Reis Map of 1513, 25

Columbus Landfall, Juan de la Cosa's Mapping of, 42

Columbus Quincentenary Exhibition Program, 16

Columbus Quincentenary Program at the Library of Congress, 21, 23

Columbus: An Annotated Guide to the Scholarship on His Life and Writings, 1750-1988, 24

Cristobal Colon Book Review, 48

Navarette and the Manufactured Columbus Landfall Problem - A Result of Ignoring Prime Cartographic Evidence, 73

Commercial Cartography: 1972-1998, 46

Computer Mapping, 28

Computers

Datum Cognita - how to find cartographic info lost on your computer, 79

Condamine, Charles-Marie de la

Amazon, 1743-44, 46

Condensed Digital Travelers Guide - Web Resources for Map Collectors & Enthusiasts, 62

Confederate States of America

General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker - Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department, 60

Conley, Tom, 70

Conservation from the Curator's and Collector's Point of View, 50

Conservation, Map, 50

Conservation and Preservation of Maps, 20

Conservation of Old Maps in Private Collections, 37

Suppliers of Conservation Materials and Services, 24

Conte Ottomano Freducci Map

Early Depiction of Florida on, 50

Contesting Spatial Order

Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China, 63

Conzen, Michael P., 27

Cook, Cynthia, 59

Cook, Karen Severud, 39

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 26

Copper Plates and Ship History, 28

Corcoran School of Art: Etching and Engraving, 27

Coronelli

On Coronelli and His Globes, 8

Cosa, Juan de la, 42

Cosantino, Andrew J., 6

Cosmographic Globes from India

A Comparative Analysis, 19

Couling, William, 28

Coulter, Martin J., 35

Country Place Names in Africa, 28

Covington, Brock, 61, 73

Craig, Robert W., 58

Cramp, Karl Reginald

British School Atlases

Shaping Style and Map Content, 85

Cresswell, Donald H., 20, 32, 58, 64

Croatia. See Altic, Mirela Slukan, See Book/CD Reviews - Five Centuries of Maps & Charts of Croatia

Croatia - Returning for the Maps, 57

Journal of the Croatian Cartographic Society, 59

Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay, 86

Cruz Cano, Juan de la

Mapa Graphico de America Meridional, 44

Cuba. See Columbus and the Depiction of Hispaniola and Cuba on the Piri Reis Map of 1513

1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited, 56

Old Maps of, 49

Cueto, Emilio, 49

Cumming Map Society, 50

Davidson NC Meeting  Oct 2002, 56

Field Trip to Petersburg and Richmond April 2002. See Maps and Friends in Petersburg and Richmond

Map Conference in North Carolina Nov 2006, 66

Vavra addresses group - September 2005, 64

Cumming, William P., 13

Cyprus

IMCoS 2003 - After-Action Report. See

IMCoS October 2003 Meeting Preview, 56

Two Books of Maps of Cyprus, 59

Dahmann, Donald C., 55, 76

Dangermond, Jack. See Evolution of Geography and GIS

Dating Old Maps with the Print Clock, 72

Datum Cognita - How to find cartographic info lost on your computer, 79

Davis-Allen, Lisa, 44

Dayton Peace Accords. See NIMA's Role in the Dayton Peace Accords

De Peuter, Stanislas, 82

De Vorsey, Jr, Dr. Louis, 11, 21, 24, 59, 65

Decorated Hearts of Oronce Fine - the 1531 Double Cordiform Map of the World, 65

Decoration on Maps, 12

Delaney, John. See Washington Map Society - Princeton Univ Field Trip

Delaware

Mapping Delmarva’s Past, 19

Mapping Delmarva’s Past - Exhibit May 1990, 18

Mapping the Borders of Pennsylvania, 39

Salisbury, Delaware?, 18

della Dora, Veronica, 62

Demhardt, Imre Josef, 74, 78, 82, 85

Dempsey, Patrick, 59

Depiction of Florida on the Early Conte Ottomano Freducci Map, 50

Descriptions of Slovenia on Military Maps of 1763-1787, 50

Diderot Maps, 53

Dillon, Leo, 64

Discovery of the New World Through Old Maps, 61

Discovery, Age of. See Keys to the Encounter

Docktor, John W., 24, 26, 32, 33, 39, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 64, 67, 76

Docktor, Susan, 24

Does This Country Have a Great Shape or What?, 25

Dolliver, Kemp, 84

Donn, John W.. See Civil War, American

Dorr, Frederic W.. See Civil War, American

Double Cordiform Map of Oronce Fine, 65

Downey, Janice, 83

Doying, Bill, 68

Dr. Ristow’s Work at the New York Public Library During World War II., 33

Drder, Mira Miletic. See Croatia

Dresden Map Theft, 28

Du, Yongtau, 63

Dunkelman, Arthur, 70

Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602–1799

Manuscript charts on vellum of, 80

Dyson, Paul, 50

Earl Percy

Hugh, Earl Percy Remakes his Map of New England, 84

Early Cartography of Virginia’s Northern Neck, 1

Early Detailed Map of Loudoun County Virginia, 62

Early History of the U.S. Lake Survey, 15

Early Mapping of Canada: An Idiosyncratic History, 42

Early Mapping of Hawaii, 9

Early Mapping of the Chesapeake Bay, 32

Early Mapping of the Pacific, 63

Early Maps of Africa: The Crucial Decades from 1490 to 1520, 43

East Indies

Minto Collection, 6

eBay - A Guide for Map Collectors, 55

Eddy, John H., 79

Edney, Matthew H., 84

Edson, Dr. Evelyn, 39, 70

Ehrenberg, Ralph, 8, 23, 43, 61, 66, 68, 69, 74

Elizabeth Taylor and the Map-maker, 81

Ellsworth, Steven, 52, 73

Enggass, Peter, 61

Engstrom, Kathryn, 59

Eric W. Wolf, 1922-2007, 69

Estes, Dr. John, 31

Etching and Engraving. See Corcoran School of Art

Europe

Black Book – Woodrow Wilson’s Maps for Peace, 82

Mapping for Peace - the American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, 71

Mapping the Peace

American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles, 67

Maps of the Peninsular War in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the Library of Congress, 82

Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus

Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe, 81

The Black Book

Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace, 85

European Discovery of America and the World. See Shedding the Veil

Evil, 38

Evolution of Geography and GIS, 50

Expanding a Child's World - a Selected Bibliography of Books Relating to Maps for Children and Young Readers, 81

Exploring the Early Americas - An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, 70

Exploring the West, 13

Exploring Waldseemüller’s World – An International Symposium, 74

Extravaganza, Indeed

The October 2000 Garrett Lectures and Texas Map Society Meeting, 49

Eye of the Explorer – Illustrating Isaac Stevens’s Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-1854, 82

Facebook, QR Codes and the WMS, 82

Fairfax County, Virginia

History of Modern Mapping in, 32

Fairfax Line

Survey and Resurvey of, 49

Farrell, Cassandra Britt, 85

Fauquier County, Virginia

early mapping of, 65

Feller, Sigfried, 27

Feminine Landscape, or Gynocartography: Treating Women Like Dirt, 47

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler’s First Chart, 10

Festival of Maps, Chicago - November 2007, 69

Fiat Lux Library, 33

Finding and Charting the World's Time, 58

Finding the Family Farm in Scotland, 28

Finding the Overseer's House at George Washington's Union Farm, 55

Fine, Barbara Adele, 2, 32, 33, 46, 54, 56

Fine, Margery - Obituary, 38

Fine, Oronce

Map of 1531, 65

Regio Patalis, 82

Fitzgerald, Joseph, 84

Fitzpatrick, Gary L., 5, 9, 28, 31, 64, 65

Flatness, James, 8, 22, 47

Florida

Early Depiction of the Early Conte Ottomano Freducci Map, 50

Folger Shakespeare Library, 77

Fondersmith, John, 21, 25, 33, 59, 61, 62, 84, 85

Ford, Brendon, 32

Foreign Perception of Russia: An Analysis of Anthony Jenkinson’s Map of Russia, Muscovy and Tartaria, 33

Forlani, Paolo

Maps and Prints of

A Descriptive Bibliography, 21

Fowler, Ian M., 82

France. See Map review - McElfresh Map of Normandy June 1944

Captain Cupet and the King of Fire – Mapping and Minorities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, 84

Cartography in the Seventeenth Century, 45

Jouhan de la Guilbaudière, his “Buccaneer’s Atlas”, and the Beginnings of French Trade along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700, 75

Normandy Maps and Models, 61

France, Southern

In Nietzsche's Shadow

Searching for Roman Cartographers in Southern France, 86

Friis, Herman Ralph - Obituary, 16

From Contracts to Copperplates

The Making of the 1827 State Map of Virginia, the Corrections in 1859, and the Copperplate Printing Project of 2004, 78

From Crowquill to Computer: A History of Cartography at the National Geographic Society, 13

From Plantagenet to Saxe-Coburg, Maps from the Fiat Lux Library 1482-1899, 33

From Russia with Latitude and Longitude: The Translation of a Cartographic Textbook, 28

From that Last Point, the Line is Less Exact.\ The Problem of Cartography Prior to the Louisiana Purchase., 52

From the Round Earth's Four Corners - The Smithsonian's Power of Maps Revisited, 29

Frumin, Mitia, 60

Furno, Richard, 56

Ganado, Albert

Maps of Malta from the Collection of Albert Ganado, 75

Garden, H. D.

early map of Fauquier County, Virginia, 65

Gardner, Melanie, 17, 24

Garrett Lectures

October 2000, 49

Triple Texas Map Extravaganza – October 2010, 81

Garver, Jr., Dr. John B., 3, 9, 13

A Remembrance by Robert G. Rhodes, 63

Gavish, Dov, 60

Gazetteers

Online Gazetteers, 57

Gearhart, Jim, 27

Geissenhainer, Lori, 55

Genealogy and Maps

Finding the Family Farm in Scotland, 28

The Irish Maps Project at the Library of Congress, 59

General Land Office. See Mapping the Public Domain

Geographic Curiosity. Road Marker near Green Bay, Wisconsin, 31

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 50

What is this Thing Called GIS?, 14

Geographic Representations of the Tôkaidô from Edo to Meiji Japan, 47

Geography of Heaven and Earth, 14

Geological Map Mystery

An 1857 Map of Pennsylvania, 17

George Washington

Finding the Overseer's House at George Washington's Union Farm, 55

George Washington University. See Charting Religious Horizons

Fiat Lux Library Exhibition May/June 1995, 33

George Washington's America

A Biography Through His Maps, 81

George Washington's Union Farm

Finding the Overseer's House at George Washington's Union Farm, 55

GEOSTAT

Maps at Mr. Jefferson's University.

GeoSystems, 35

Geraci, Joseph, 6

Germany

Utopian Literature. See Book Review - Das neu entdeckte Schlarraffenland

Gerritsz, Hessell, 43

Gettysburg College

Stuckenburg map collection, Musselman Library, 9

Gettysburg Pennsylvania

Mapping and Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign, 78

Theater Map of the Gettysburg Campaign 1863, 59

WMS Field Trip - March 1987, 9

Ginsberg, William, 73, 74

GIS. See Evolution of Geography and GIS

MapAnalyst and Geographic Information Systems

Keys to Unlocking New Paths of Research in the History of Cartography, 86

Give me the map there - King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England, 68

Glenn, John F.C. (Jack), 78

Glimpse into Vietnam's Turbulent 19th Century, 73

Glimpses of History from Old Maps - A Collector’s View, 19

Global Mapping. See The Mythical Map

Global Pursuit

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

Globes. See Washington Map Society - Harpers Ferry Field Trip

Cosmographic Globes from India

A Comparative Analysis, 19

Geography of Heaven and Earth., 14

Globes in the Library of Congress, 2

James Wilson and the Early American Globe Makers, 56

On Coronelli and His Globes., 8

Polyhedral, 9

Stewart Museum Symposium, October 2000, 49

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

Globes in the Library of Congress, 2

Gökgöz, Türkay, 75

Golden, Howard, 62

Goldsmith, Fred, 82

Golliver, Jim, 15

Gonzalez, Dr. Alicia, 23

Goodrich, Dr. Thomas D., 7, 55

Goodwin, Kit, 63

Gousha Mapping Company, 33

GPS 1.0 beta, AKA Britannia Depicta… (or, Travel Commentary in Strip Maps), 85

Greece

Challenged Territories – Cartographies of Greece and the Levant during the Ottoman Era, 84

Greek Portolan Charts

15th-17th Centuries, 50

Imagining Mount Athos - Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, 81

Mapping Greece, 1420–1800

A History – Maps in the Margarita Samourkas Collection, 84

Printed Maps of Greece, 1477-1800, 78

Visions of Mount Athos, 62

Greek World

Barrington Atlas - Mapping the Greek and Roman World, 49, 50

Green, Janet C., 4, 19, 20

Obituary, 21

Greene, John, 52, 56

Griggs, Curt & Marti, 69, 83

Grim, Dr. Ronald E., 14, 20, 59, 82

Gross, Joyce, 23, 68

Group Portrait at Age 21

The Members of the WMS, 51

Grove, Pearce S., 28, 29, 54

Grubbins, John, 81

Guilbaudière, Jouhan de la, 75

Gurtz, Dennis M., 62

H.M. Gousha Mapping Company, 33

Haack, Barry, 79

Hadsel, Fred Latimer, 43, 55

Haft, Adele J., 65

Hage, Rushika February, 56

Hagen, Carlos B., 14

Hakluyt Society

Providence RI - October 1986, 8

Half Moon, 52

Hall, Charles, 76

Hamer, John, 31

Hanly, Stephen, 70

Hannabass, Darline, 65

Hansen, Robert

"Charting the Chesapeake", 19

Hardaway, James (Hal), 54, 74, 77

Harley, J. Brian, 12

Obituary, 23

Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph, 28

First Chart, 10

Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the Library of Congress, 82

Hawaii

Early Mapping of, 9

Surveying the Mahele, 31

Hawkins, Don A., 11, 12

H-DC Internet Discussion List, 50

Heading West

Mapping the Territory exhibit, 51

Hébert, Dr. John, 23, 25, 48

New Chief, Geography & Map Div, Library of Congress, 46

Hebrew Holy Land Map of Avraham bar Ya'acov, Amsterdam, 1695, 51

Hedges, S. Blair, 72

Heezen, Bruce C.. See Marie Tharp and her Ocean Floor Maps

Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England's Towns, 1849-1857, 71

Henry Hudson, Hessell Gerritsz and Habbakkuk Prickett, 43

Hereford Mappa Mundi, 15, See Book/CD Reviews Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Mappemundi, See Book/CD Reviews Wheel of Memory

Heritage Map Museum, 35

Map Collector Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000, 49

Herman, Jan, 15

Hesse, Peter, 61

Hessler, John W., 57, 74, 86

Highbarger, Robert A., 15, 26, 36, 37, 41, 64, 65, 69

Hills, John

Circular Map of Philadelphia, 35

Hirsch, Michael S., 10, 48, 62, 66, 86

Hispaniola. See Columbus and the Depiction of Hispaniola and Cuba on the Pirî Reis Map of 1513

1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited, 56

Historic Maps of Russia, 61

Historical Maps as Evidence (in legal proceedings), 59

Historical Use of Maps in Litigation, 11

History Channel (Public TV)

The Map Makers, 60

History of Aerial Photography, 8

History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin, 9, 36

Visit to, 25

History of H. M. Gousha Mapping Company, 33

History of Modern Mapping in Fairfax County, Virginia, 32

History of the Old Naval Observatory, 15

History of the United Kingdom Military Survey: 250 Years of Support for the Armed, 42

Hollis, Gavin, 68

Holmes, William Henry, 6

Holy Land

Charting Religious Horizons, 29

Hunphrey Cole and His Map of the Holy Land, 53

Mapping of, based on the Bible, 35

Holzheimer, Arthur, 82

Hoppen, Stacy, 50

Hoskins, Dr. Donald, 17

Hotchkiss, Jedediah

Map Exhibit at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 74

How the States Got Their Shapes, 80

How to Attend a Map Fair, 52, 73

Howard County, Maryland

Cartographic Records of, 36

Hubbard, David, 53

Hudson Bay, 24

Hudson, Alice, 27, 33, 39, 49, 55, 56, 64, 78

Hudson, Henry, 43

Huennekens, John, 74

Hugh, Earl Percy Remakes his Map of New England, 84

Hughes, Stuart, 42

Huidekoper-Cope, Fay, 78

Humboltian Science Framework for William Whewell's Maps of the Oceanic Tides, 59

Humphrey Cole and His Map of the Holy Land, 53

Hungary

Map Collection at National Széchényi Library, 26

Hunting of the Snark.

A Cartographic Item from Lew Carroll's, 6

Huntington Collection of Maps and Charts of Maryland, 17

Hutchinson, J. Andrew, 73

Hyman, John, 50, 76

Image is Everything: English Maps of Colonial America as Promotional Tools, 1530-1660, 34

Images and Icons of the New World: Essays on American Cartography, 39

Images of the World: The Atlas Through History, 2

Library of Congress Exhibit/Symposium, 2

Imagining Mount Athos - Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II, 81

immodicus notitia = Too much information  (A Primer on RSS Feeds), 81

In der Vergulde Sonnewijser (In the Golden Sundial) - A Biography of Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638), 60

In Nietzsche's Shadow

Searching for Roman Cartographers in Southern France, 86

In Transit: Medieval Itinerary Maps and Texts of the Middle Ages, 39

India

Cosmographic Globes from India: A Comparative Analysis, 19

Indian-White Land Transfers, 16

Ingram, David Lee, 49

Initial Meridian. See Finding and Charting the World's Time

Innys, John

The John Innys Collection, 24

Integration of the Antique Map Price Record and OldMaps.com, 83

International Antiquarian Map-Dealers Association, 53

International Cartographic Association

Triple Texas Map Extravaganza – October 2010, 81

International Conference on the History of Cartography. See International Society for the History of Cartography

Amsterdam/The Hague - June-July 1989, 16

Athens - July 1999, 45

Berne, Switzerland - July 2007, 66, 67, 68, 70

Budapest - July 2005, 60, 61, 62, 64

Cambridge/Portland - June 2003, 54, 55, 57

Copenhagen - July 2009, 72, 73, 74, 76

Helsinki  June-July 2013, 85

Helsinki June-July 2013, 86

Madrid - July 2001, 51

Moscow - July 2011, 79, 80, 82

Ottawa - July 1985, 4

International Date Line. See Finding and Charting the World's Time

International Map Collectors' Society (IMCoS)

Amsterdam - October 2002, 55

Chicago - October 2001, 52

Denver - September 2005, 62, 64

Edinburgh, Scotland - June 1991, 22

Greenwich and London - June 1992, 25

Guatemala - February 2007, 66, 70

History of the Cartography of Eastern Mediterranean to Include Cyprus - Project Announcement, 22

Istanbul, Turkey - October 1999, 46

Italy 2004 - Preview, 59

London Weekend - June 2000, 48

Madrid, Spain - October 1992 - Photos, 26

Malta - September 2011, 82

Modena & Florence, Italy - October 2004, 61

Nicosia, Cyprus - October 2003, 56, 58

Oslo, Norway - September 2009, 74, 76

Singapore and Sydney - November 1991, 23

Tenth Anniversary Celebration, 19

Vienna, Austria - September 2012, 83, 85

Washington, D.C. - October 1990, 19, 20

International Society for the History of Cartography, 26, See International Conference on the History of Cartography

Internet

Case Study of Transition from Mental Map to Web Based Mapping in Papua New Guinea for Cartographic Education, 53

eBay - A Guide for Map Collectors, 55

Historical Maps on the Internet, 55

Online Gazetteers, 57

RSS Feeds, 81

Web Resources for Map Collectors & Enthusiasts, 62

Interpretive Design Center, National Park Service, 56

Iran

Mapping Persia, 67

Ireland

Maps & Genealogy, 59

Isaac McCoy: Forgotten Mapper of the Trans-Missouri West., 9

Islamic Mapping. See Traditional Cartography of the Islamic Classical Societies

Island Book of Henricus Martellus, 56

Islands

Island Book of Henricus Martellus, 56

Isolario of Benedetto Bordone, 37

Isolario of Benedetto Bordone, 37

Israel. See Hebrew Holy Land Map of Avraham bar Ya'acov, Amsterdam, 1695

Experimental Cartography in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918, 60

Mapping the Holy Land, Based on the Bible, 35

Italy

A Map of Florence in Ptolemy’s Geography, 17

Costa e arcipelago toscano nel Kitab i Bahriye di Piri Reis, 84

Florentine Merchant Francesco Carletti's Voyage, 1594, 36

IMCoS 2004 Meeting Preview, 59

IMCoS in Italy 2004, 61

Island Book of Henricus Martellus, 56

Marvel of Maps - Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy, 64

Missa de La Mapa Mundi (Sicily), 63

J. T. Lloyd's Map of Virginia, 76

J.H. Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah, 62

Jaffee, Dr. David, 56

Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 48

James Wilson and the Early American Globe Makers, 56

Japan

A Curious Kind of Human Monster on an Old Japanese Map, 7

Geographic Representations of the Tôkaidô from Edo to Meiji Japan, 47

Japoniæ insulæ. The mapping of Japan. A historical introduction and cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan before 1800, 86

Jefferson, Thomas

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, 56

Sketches and the Founding of the Federal City., 12

Jenkinson, Anthony, 33

Jennings, Ken

Maphead

Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks, 82

Jesuit Mapping

Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay, 86

Vietnam - Maps of Alexandre de Rhodes, 65

John Adlum -- Tanner, Soldier, Surveyor, Cartographer, Viticulturist, 46

John Garver - a Remembrance, 63

John Wood’s ‘Plan of the City of Aberdeen, 1828’: An Evaluation of an Historical Source., 35

Johnson, A.J.

Alvin J. Johnson and His Role in 19th Century Map Making in America, 83

Atlases of, 49

Johnson, Hubert O., 32, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86

Johnston, Keith

Journey Into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), 60

Joint Meeting of Phillips Society and California Map Society, 48

Jomard, Edme- François

Monuments de la Geographie, 38

Jones, Judith, 80

Jordan. Alf, 80

Jordon, Alf, 66

Jouhan de la Guilbaudière, his “Buccaneer’s Atlas”, and the Beginnings of French Trade along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700, 75

Juan de la Cosa's Mapping of the Columbus Landfall, 42

Judge, Joseph, 23

Kaler, Kaler, 20

Kanas, Nick, 84

Kanawha/New River on Mid Eighteenth Century Maps, 48

Kanter, Ruth and Herschel, 57

Karl Kirchwey’s “The Geographer’s Line”: Maps, Poetry, and Lewis & Clark, 65

Karrow, Robert W. Jr., 75, 86

Keck, Barbara, 68, 70

Kenya

Reverend Thomas Wakefield - Unsung Geographer and Mapmaker in late 19th Century Kenya, 73

Keys to the Encounter

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery, 24

Kimaid, Michael, 52

King, Geoffrey, 38

King, Robert J., 82

Kirchwey, Karl

The Geographer's Line, 65

Kish, Dr. George, 13

Kislak Collection. See Exploring the Early Americas

Kitab-i-Bahriye, 52

See Walters Art Gallery, 42

See Washington Map Society Baltimore Field Trip July 1998, 42.

See Washington Map Society trip to Baltimore January 1987, 9

Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Road Maps, 67

Knapp, Emerson, 48

Kohl, Johann Georg. See The Articulate Traveller

Kovarsky, Joel, 56, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86

Kroehler, Peter, 86

Kumler, Mark P., 60

Kylander, Clarence E., 60, 72

Lane, Christopher, 35

Lange, Howard, 54, 62, 75, 77

Languages

Latin Texts on Old Maps - Elementary Latin grammar and cartographic word lists, 70

Lanman Collection, Yale University Library, 19

Lanman, Dr. Jonathan T., 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

"Glimpses of History from Old Maps - A Collector’s View", 19

Lanman Collection, Yale University Library, 19

Obituary, 12

Lapaine, Miljenko. See Croatia

Large-Scale, Local Maps of the Mid-19th Century, 58

Latin America

Alexander von Humboldt

Scientific discoverer and cartographer of the Americas, 82

Mapping Latin America – A Cartographic Reader, 83

Latin Texts on Old Maps - Elementary Latin grammar and cartographic word lists, 70

Lay, Amos, 71

Lee, Cordell D. K., 18

Lee, Robert E.

General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker- Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department, 60

Mapping and Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign, 78

L'Enfant, Pierre Charles

Plans for the Nation’s Capital in Washington, 11

The City Plan as Work of Art - Intended and Unintended Meanings in Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 Manuscript Plan of Washington D.C., 78

Welcome Pierre 200 civic celebration, 21

Lester, Jay, 63, 64, 66, See Cumming Map Society

Lewes, Dr. Darby, 47

Lewis & Clark

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, 56

Cartographic First Fruits of the Lewis& Clark Expedition, 64

Karl Kirchwey's 'The Geographer's Line' - Maps, Poetry and Lewis & Clark, 65

Map

Lewis & Clark and the Louisiana Purchase, 58

Lewis, Dr. C. Malcolm, 26

Li, Xiaocong, 62

Library Catalogs, Use of Online, 80

Library of Congress

1492 - An Ongoing Voyage, 25

Acquisitions of Cartographic Material, 47

Chinese Maps in the Library of Congress, 62

Circa 1492, Art in the Age of Exploration - exhibit, 22

City of Magnificent Distances

The Nation’s Capitol - exhibit, 23

Columbus Quincentenary Program, 21, 23

Dr. John Hébert - New Chief G&M Div, 46

Exploring the Early Americas, 70

Exploring Waldseemüller’s World – An International Symposium, 74

Geography and Map Division Celebrates 100th Anniversary, 40

George Washington Map Collection, 44

Globes in the, 2

Joint Meeting - Phillips Soc & Calif Map Soc April 2000, 48

Luso-Hispanic World in Maps at, 48

Maps & Genealogy - The Irish Maps Project, 59

Maps of Afghanistan in the collections of, 59

Maps of the Peninsular War in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the, 82

Minto Collection of Maps from the Strait of Malacca and the East Indies, 6

Ralph Ehrenberg - New Chief G&M Div, 23

Ralph Ehrenberg Retires as G&M Chief, 43

Library of Virginia

Copperplate Special 2005, 61

Fry-Jefferson Map Society Formed, 68

Gift of Voorhees Maps to, 58

LVA Online Map Collections, 78

LVA's Civil War Map Collection, 85

Voorhees Lecture Series, 63

Library of Virginia’s Civil War Map Collection, 85

Library, Cartographic. See Annotated Bibliography of Reference Books for the Beginning Antiquarian Map Collector

Litigation

Historical Use of Maps in, 11

Lockwood, Leigh, 79, 81, 82, 85, 86

Looking for 'Maps on Stone' in Washington, 62

Lord, Jr., Philip, 22

Loste, Barbara, 21

Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 26

Louisiana

Charting Louisiana, 59

Louisiana Purchase, 52

Loupis, Dimitris K., 52

Lourie, Ira S., 49, 78, 83

Luso-Hispanic World in Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress, 48

Lyon, Rod, 78, 82

MacGillivray, George, 24

Magnificent Voyagers: U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, 8

Magnus, Olaus

Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus

Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe, 81

Mahele

Surveying the, 31

Maine, University of Southern, 29

Opening of Osher Map Library & Smith Center, 32

Malta

German Malta Maps, 83

IMCoS Meets in Malta, 2011, 82

Malta Map Society Formed, 78

Malta Map Society Newsletter, 83

Maps of Malta from the Collection of Albert Ganado, 75

Miniature Maps of Malta, 77

Manasek, F. J., 41

Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995, 41

Mannix, Mary, 36

Map Auction Business Today

Cartography from the Fiat Lux Library, 51

eBay - A Guide for Map Collectors, 55

Map Cataloging

Rare Map Cataloging - A Case of Special Considerations, 67

Map Collection of the National Széchényi Library of Hungary, 26

Map Collections, Scholarship, and Sales in California, 6

Map Collector Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000, Heritage Map Museum, 49

Map Collector Publications, Ltd, 22

Map Collector Reminisces, 45

Map Collector's Circle

An Index to (1963-1975), 6

Map Dealer Catalogues, 66

Map Fairs

12 Steps to Enjoying a Map Fair, 64

History of the Miami International Map Fair, 84

How to Attend a Map Fair, 52, 73

Impressions of the Rocky Mountain Map Fair, 62

Miami International Map Fair from the Perspective of a First-Timer, 53

Map Festival: Places and Spaces., 2

Map Postcards

Texas Map Postcards Revisited, 57

Map Powder Horns OR Powder Horn Maps, 57

Map Projections, 11, 15

John P. Snyder and the Space Oblique Mercator Projection, 57

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

Map Reference Books. See Annotated Bibliography of Reference Books

Map Reviews

C&O Canal Map, 61

Freedom's Tracks - A Map of the Underground Railroad, 64

History Map - John Wilkes Booth Escape Route, 57

Iran/Tehran maps by Gitashenasi, 58

Lewis & Clark and the Louisiana Purchase, 58

Maps of Company Commander - Europe - 1944&1945, 68

McElfresh Map of Normandy June 1944, 61

Theater Map of the Gettysburg Campaign 1863, 59

Map Site Seeing, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86

Map Stamps

Allan Lee Collection of, 6

Carto-Philately, 15

Intro to Historical Carto-Philately, 66

Map that Bombed the Chinese Embassy, 73

Map Ties

Cartocravatia, 71

Maps on Silk, 55

MapAnalyst and Geographic Information Systems

Keys to Unlocking New Paths of Research in the History of Cartography, 86

Mappa Mundi, Hereford, 15

Mapping, 22

Mapping Delmarva’s Past - Exhibit May 1990, 18, 19

Mapping for Peace - the American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, 71

Mapping Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the Relaciones Geográficas, 74

Mapping Imperial Expansion: Colonial Cartography in North America and South Asia, 45

Mapping in the Soviet Union, 18

Mapping Myths: The Cartographic Boundaries between Science and Speculatio on La Condamine’s Amazon, 1743-44, 46

Mapping New Worlds: The Planet Venus, 24

Mapping of the Borders of Pennsylvania, 1681-1921, 39

Mapping of Washington - exhibition, 20

Mapping Persia, 67

Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain - Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions of Mount Athos, 62

Mapping Terms. See Cartographic Innovations

Mapping the City in the Renaissance: A Map of Florence in Ptolemy’s “Geography.”, 17

Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World. See Shedding the Veil

Mapping the Holy Land, Based on the Bible, 35

Mapping the New World: Nicolas Sanson's 'Amérique Septentrionale' and French Cartography in the Seventeenth Century, 45

Mapping the North Carolina Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages, 13

Mapping the Peace - American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles, 67

Mapping the Public Domain: The General Land Office in the Nineteenth Century, 14

Mapping the Wet Part: A Century and a Half of Physical and Geological Oceanography in the Coast Survey, 29

Maps. See Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, See Principles of Collecting, See Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, See

Allegories in 18th Century Map Cartouches, 32

Art of the Map

An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments, 86

As Evidence in Maritime Boundary Disputes, 35

Beautiful Symmetry - John Melish, Materi al Culture, and Map Interpretation, 73

Cartocavatia (Map Ties), 71

Cartographic-Political Satires, 38

Computer Mapping, 28

Conservation, 50

Conservation and Preservation of, 20, 54

Conservation of, in Private Collections, 37

Dating Old Maps with the Print Clock, 72

Decoration on, 12

Designing Symbols for, 32

Discovery of the New World through Old Maps, 61

eBay - A Guide for Map Collectors, 55

Female Form on Maps, 47

Festival of Maps, Chicago 2007-2008, 68

Fiat Lux Library, 33, 51

GPS 1.0 beta, AKA Britannia Depicta… (or, Travel Commentary in Strip Maps), 85

Large-Scale Local Maps of the 19th Century, 58

Map Collector Reminisces, 45

Map That Bombed the Chinese Embassy, 73

Maps & Genealogy - Irish, 59

Maps of Amistad (and Other Films), 42

Maps on Silk, 55

Medieval Itinerary Maps, 39

Miniature Antique Maps - see Book/CD Reviews, 38

Modern-Day Historical Mapping of Rural Virginia and Maryland, 43

Ocean Tides Maps by William Whewell, 59

Old Maps of Cuba, 49

Photolithography as Applied to Map Making, 58

Portolan Charts - The Key to Navigation in the Mediterranean and Beyond, 60

Preservation and Conservation Resources. See Caring for Maps on Paper

Putting Appalachia on the Map, 39

Rapid Field Sketching (American Civil War Maps), 40

Rare Map Cataloging - A Case of Special Considerations, 67

Role as Tools of Propaganda and Mental Conditioning, 14

Suppliers of Conservation Materials and Services, 24

Thematic Maps. See  Maps with a Message

United States Map as a National Symbol, 85

Use of Maps on Wine Labels, 43

Used to Dress Full-Size Mannequins, 32

Virginia in Maps

Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, 49

Maps & Genealogy - The Irish Maps Project at the Library of Congress, 59

Maps & Music. See Missa de La Mapa Mundi

Maps and Civilization: Inspiration and Sources, 40

Maps and Friends in Petersburg and Richmond, 54

Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani

A Descriptive Bibliography, 21

Maps and TV's 'Antiques RoadShow', 58

Maps as Evidence in Maritime Boundary Disputes, 35

Maps at Mr. Jefferson's (U of VA) Library, 56

Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, 57

Maps of Amistad (and Other Films)., 42

Maps of the California Trail, 51

Maps of the Peninsular War in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the Library of Congress, 82

Maps on Antique American Grandfather Clocks, 77

Maps on Silk, 55

Maps Relating to Virginia, 17

Maps with a Message

Categorizing the Works of Heinrich Scherer, 52

Marching with John W. Donn and Frederic W. Dorr - A Reminiscence of a Civil War Topographer, 66

Marie Tharp and her Ocean Floor Maps, 79

Marine Corps Maps, 24

Marine Corps Museum, 24

Maritime Boundary Disputes

Maps as Evidence in, 35

Marshall, Patricia, 79

Marshall, Robert Alexander

Obituary, 31

Martellus, Henricus

Island Book, 56

Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516

Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought, 85

World Map of 1491. See Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516: Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought

Martyr, Peter, 56

Maryland

1791 District of Columbia Boundary Survey, 21

Annapolis WMS Field Trip, 1996, 36

Baltimore WMS Field Trip - January 1987, 9

C&O Canal Map, 61

Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons MD, 21

Cartographic Records of Howard County, 36

Charting the Chesapeake, 1590-1990 - exhibit, 21

Cheaspeake and Ohio Canal, 58

Early Mapping of the Chesapeake Bay, 32

Edward Sachse, Nineteenth Century Baltimore Lithographer, 11

Mapping Delmarva’s Past, 19

Mapping Delmarva’s Past - Exhibit May 1990, 18

Mapping the Borders of Pennsylvania, 39

Maryland Hall of Records/Archives, Annapolis, 12

Maryland Historical Society, 42

Maryland State Archives, 17

Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908, 58

Mason and Dixon Line ‘Mystery’ Markers, Case of the, 5

Modern-Day Historical Mapping, 43

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore, 9

Putting Maryland on the Map, 69

Relation of Maryland and the First Map of the Colony, 4

Salisbury, Delaware?, 18

The Huntingfield Collection of Maryland Maps, 69

The Huntington Collection of Maps and Charts, 17

Unidentified Manuscript Map in the Penn-Baltimore Controversy, 18

Walters Art Gallery Rare Books Room, Baltimore, 9, 42

Maryland Hall of Records/Archives, 12

Putting Maryland on the Map, 69

The Huntingfield Collection of Maryland Maps, 69

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD

See Washington Map Society Baltimore Field Trip July 1998, 42.

Maryland, University of - Baltimore Campus

Imaging Research Center. See Visualizing Early Washington DC

Mason and Dixon Line

Case of the Mason and Dixon Line ‘Mystery’ Markers., 5

Mason, Virginia W., 64

Massachusetts

Late 19th Century Atlases of Massachusetts Counties on CD - 1876 F.W. Beers Atlas of Essex County, 60

McAuliffe, Kieran, 60

McConnell, Eileen, 59

McCorkle, Barbara, 58, 78

McCoy, Isaac

Forgotten Mapper of the Trans-Missouri West, 9

McCrone, Walter C. - Obituary, 54

McDermott, Paul, 58, 82, See Map Review - C&O Canal Map

McDougall, Julie, 84, 85

McElfresh, Earl, 40, 65, 78, See Map Review - McElfresh Map of Normandy June 1944

McGuirk, Donald L. Jr., 77

Last Great Cartographic Myth

Mer de l’Ouest, 82

McIntire, Andrew, 53

McIntosh, Gregory C., 25

McKee, Marianne M., 35, 60, 61, 65, 66, 78, 81, See Also Withers, Marianne M.

McLaughlin, Patrick, 67

McNaughton, Douglas, 43, 47

Mecca Map, 12

Medieval Itinerary Maps. See In Transit

Medieval Map, Notes on the, 2

Medieval Mapping - Putting America on the Map - The Achievement of Medieval Mapmakers, 70

Mediterranean

Portolan Charts - The Key to Navigation in the Mediterranean and Beyond, 60

Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (Late 18th Century), 60

Meinheit, Harold E., 65, 73, 76, 81, 84, 85

Melish, John

Beautiful Symmetry - John Melish, Material Culture, and Map Interpretation, 73

Men of Daring, Triumphs of Exploration, 5

Meurer, Peter, 86

Mexico

Mapping Identity -  Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the Relaciones Geográficas, 74

Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay, 86

Traveling from New Spain to Mexico

Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century, 84

Visit to the Museo Nacional de la Cartografía, Mexico D. F, 81

Miami International Map Fair

History of, 84

The Miami International Map Fair From the Perspective of a “First-Timer, 53

Middle East

Mapping the Peace

American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles, 67

Miller, Dr. Naomi, 17

Miller, Michael L., 9, 14, 16, 18, 19, 23, 27, 35, 80

Miller, Nancy Goddin, 7, 8, 11, 15, 19, 21, 23, 33, 80

Mingus, Matthew D., 77, 85

Miniature Antique Maps: An Illustrated Guide for the Collector, 38

Minto Collection of Maps from the Strait of Malacca and the East Indies of Great Historical Interest, now Preserved at the Library of Congress, 6

Missa de la Mapa Mundi - A Cartophonic Mystery, 63

Missinne, Stefaan, 83

Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay, 86

Mitchell, Ken, 44

Mlinaric, Dubravka. See Croatia

Mobley, Phillip, 82

Mode, P.J., 2, 48, 72, 76, 85

Modelski, Andrew M., 2

Modern-Day Historical Mapping of Rural Virginia and Maryland, 43

Molander, Arne B., 15, 18, 21, 22, 28, 42, 48, 58

Moll, Herman

World of, 43

Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe, 5

Monumental Project: Memorial to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, Surveyor, 28

Moore, Richard D., 82

Morrison, Dr. Joel L., 33, 59

Morrison, Jr., H. Russell, 4, 12, 18, 69

Charting the Chesapeake, 19

The Huntingfield Collection of Maryland Maps, 69

Mullan, Anthony Páez, 48, 75, 83

Mumford, Ian, 31, 58

Museo Nacional de la Cartografía, Mexico D. F, 81

Myers, James P. Jr., 42

Mystery of the Cantino Map, 15

Mythical Lands in Early Cartography - An Opportune Tool for Promotion of Exploration and Colonization, 66

Nagler, Stephen, 73

National Archives

Deciding What Maps to Keep, 19

National Geographic Society

A History of Cartography at, 13

Adopts New World Map, 14

Cartography at the, 3

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

WMS Field Trip April 2001, 52

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). See NIMA's Role in the Dayton Peace Accords

National Library of China

Maps at, 60

National Ocean Service, The, 5

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Charting the Americas

500 Years of Progress, 23

Coast Survey, 29

National Ocean Service, The, 5, 14

NOAA Heritage Week, Feb 6-11, 2006, 65

Science and History Center, 19

U.S. Lake Survey, 15

National Palette: Painting and Map-Coloring in 17th-Century Dutch Republic, 44

National Park Service

Interpretive Design Center, 56

Navarette and the Manufactured Columbus Landfall Problem - A Result of Ignoring Prime Cartographical Evidence, 73

Navarette, Martín Fernández de

Navarette and the Manufactured Columbus Landfall Problem - A Result of Ignoring Prime Cartographic Evidence, 73

Navigating Tasman's 1642 Voyage of Exploration - Cartographic Instruments and Navigational Decisions, 69

Nazarewicz, Witold, 56

Nebenzahl Lectures

Chicago - October 2001. See Chicago Area Cartographic Events - October 2001

November 1985. See "Monarchs, Ministers and Maps"

Nebenzahl, Kenneth, 69

New Cartographic Products for the Visualization and Modeling of the Environment, 33

New England

Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England's Towns, 1849-1857, 71

Hugh, Earl Percy Remakes his Map of New England, 84

New Jersey. See Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York

Large-Scale Local Maps of the 19th Century, 58

Person of Worth Integrity - John Worlidge, West Jersey Surveyor, 76

New Mexico

J.H. Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah, 62

New Netherland Museum. See Half Moon

New Quads Ain't What They Used to Be, 49

New View of the World - John P. Snyder and the Space Oblique Mercator Projection, 57

New WMS Website Spring 2013, 86

New York, 26, See Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York

Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995, 41

Map Powder Horns OR Powder Horn Maps, 57

Mapping the Borders of Pennsylvania, 39

New York City Map Maker John H. Eddy, 79

New York City WMS Field Trip, Apr 2001, 51

New York City WMS Field Trip, Nov 1998, 43

New York City WMS Field Trip, Oct 1992, 26

New York City WMS Field Trip, October 2009, 76

New York Public Library, 26

Obscure Amos Lay - An Early Nineteenth American Cartographer, 71

New York City Map Maker John H. Eddy, 79

New York Public Library, 26, 33, 51

Newly Formed Williamsburg Map Circle, 83

Newman Library, 21

Newman, James L., 85

Nicholas and William Scull of Pennsylvania, 33

Nietsche, Friedrich, 86

Nietzey, Benjamin M., 31

NIMA's Role in the Dayton Peace Accords, 51

Nineteenth Century Baltimore Lithographer, Edward Sachse, 11

Ningal, Tine, 53

No Man's Island of Fairfax County, 68

Norman Mappaemundi

World Apart, 31

Normandy Maps and Models, 61

North America

1477 Columbus Voyage, 48

Cartographic First Fruits of the Lewis& Clark Expedition, 64

Cartographic Resources for the Study of North American Indians, 22

Colonial Cartography - Mapping Imperial Expansion, 45

Discovery of the New World through Old Maps, 61

Jaillot's 1674 Map of, 48

Kanawha/New River on Mid Eighteenth Century Maps, 48

Last Great Cartographic Myth

Mer de l’Ouest, 82

Mapping the French Empire in, 22

New Map of North America.  Note on Edward Wells Atlas of 1700, 19

Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-54. See Book/CD Reviews - Eye of the Explorer

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Relation of 16th Century Virginian Cartography to the Mapping of the Pacific, 48

Sanson's Amerique Septentrionale & French Cartography, 45

North American Indians

Cartographic Resources for the Study of, 22

North Carolina

Cumming Map Society, 50

Mapping the North Carolina Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages, 13

North, Gary W., 14, 18, 79

Northwest Passage: Unraveling the Mystery Through Maps, 7

Note on Seville (Spain) in Braun and Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum.”, 10

Notes on the Medieval Map, 2

Novak, Drago. See Croatia

O’Donnel, Jim, 6

Ocean Floor Maps of Marie Tharp, 79

Ocean Tides, Maps of, 59

Offen, Karl, 86

Ogilby

Britannia.  Reprints of Ogilby, 19

Ohio

Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University, 20

Ohio State University Center for Mapping, 20

Okerson, Dr. David, 24

Old Maps of Cuba., 49

Old Naval Observatory, 15

OldMaps.com

Integration with Antique Map Price Record, 83

On Coronelli and His Globes, 8

On the California Trail with Charlie Burroughs, 38

On the Invention of Photolithography as Applied to Map Making, 58

On the Trail with Charlie Burroughs - Part II, 39

On the Waldseemüller Trail, 70

O'Neill, Patrick L., 55, 72

Online Gazetteers, 57

Online Library Catalogs, Use of, 80

Ordnance Survey Maps

Putting Color in, 31

Orienteer! The Thinking Sport., 23

Orlando, Don, 10

Ortelius, Abraham

Ortelius Atlas Maps – An Illustrated Guide – Second revised edition, 83

Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570–1641) – Characteristics and Development of a sample of on verso map texts, 76

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Orth, Donald J., 20, 28

Osher Map Library, 29, 32, 75, 84, 85

Ottoman Atlas.

Ottoman Era

Challenged Territories – Cartographies of Greece and the Levant during the Ottoman Era, 84

Ottoman Portolans: Turkish Sea Charts, 7

Oxford Univ, UK

Bodleian Library, 65

Pacific Ocean

Captain Cook - Explorations and Reassessments, 64

From Terra Australis Incognita to Whales and Shipping Routes - Cartographic Representations of the South Pacific, 1760-1860, 80

Princeton Univ Exhibition - Strait Through. See Washington Map Society - Princeton Univ Field Trip

Paczolt, Stephen, 50

Palestine. See Hebrew Holy Land Map of Avrahan bar Ya'acov

Experimental Cartography in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918, 60

Papenfuse, Edward C., 12, 32, 58, 69

Papua New Guinea

Case Study of Transition from Mental Map to Web Based Mapping in Papua New Guinea for Cartographic Education, 53

Parkinson, Peter, 42

Paul, Ronald L., 59, 64

PBS Antiques RoadShow. See Maps and TV's Antiques RoadShow

Peabody Institute Library, Baltimore MD, 9

Peak Gift of Map Stamps to the WMS, 57

Peak, Paul R., 22, 28, 32

Peak Gift of Map Stamps to the WMS, 57

Peck, Douglas T., 50, 56, 66, 73

Peninsular War Maps

Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the Library of Congress, 82

Penn-Baltimore Controversy

Unidentified Manuscript Map, 18

Pennsylvania. See Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York

Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, 15

Geological Map Mystery

An 1857 Map of PA, 17

Gettysburg WMS Field Trip  - March 1987, 9

Heritage Map Museum, 35

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 15

John Adlum, 46

John Hills Circular Map of Philadelphia, 35

John Potts Manuscript Map (Fort Duquesne), 42

Mapping and Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign, 78

Mapping the Borders of, 39

Maritime Museum, Philadelphia, 15

Mason and Dixon Line ‘Mystery’ Markers, Case of the, 5

Nicolas and William Scull of, 33

Philadelphia WMS Field Trip - May 1989, 15

Putting Lancaster on the Map, 54

Stuckenburg map collection, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, 9

Theater Map of the Gettysburg Campaign 1863, 59

Unidentified Manuscript Map in the Penn-Baltimore Controversy, 18

WMS Field Trip, 1995, 35

Penny Plain-Tuppence Coloured, 31

Percival, Bronson, 63

Perkins, Alice Theodora Merten Rechlin - Obituary, 54

Persia. See Special Maps of Persia, 1477-1925, See General Maps of Persia, 1477-1925

Mapping Persia, 67

Person of Worth Integrity - John Worlidge, West Jersey Surveyor, 76

Petrie, Lynda, 71

Pflederer, Richard, 50, 60, 69, 72, 76, 77, 80, 84, 86

Interview - Newly Formed Williamsburg Map Circle, 83

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

John Hills Circular Map of, 35

Philip Lee Phillips Society

Joint Meeting with Calif Map Society April 2000, 48

Philips' London School Board Atlas

British School Atlases

Shaping Style and Map Content, 85

Philip's Systematic Atlas

British School Atlases

Shaping Style and Map Content, 85

Photolithography, 58

Photolithography as Applied to Map Making, 58

Picturing a Networked Nation - Abraham Bradley's Landmark U. S. Postal Maps, 77

Pierce, Charles Sanders

Sesquicentennial International Congress, 16

Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s Plans for the Nation’s Capital in Washington, 11

Pillar Dollar, 11

Piness, George and Edith, 85

Pini, Elena S., 27

Pinson, Stephen C., 38

Piri Reis

Costa e arcipelago toscano nel Kitab i Bahriye di Piri Reis, 84

Pirî Reis. See Pirî Reis Map of 1513

Pirî Reis Map of 1513, 25, 43, 49

Pirî Reis's Book on Navigation (Kitab-i Bahriye) as a Geography Handbook

Ottoman Efforts to produce an Atlas during the Reign of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687), 52

Placenames

Nature and Variety of, 20

Poland

Maps in Books of Russia and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800, 84

Poling, Beverly, 62

Political Mythology in the John Potts Manuscript Map (1758), 42

Polyhedral Globes, 9

Pool, Jeremy, 60, 74

Porrazzo, Peter, 70, 72, 77, 86

Portolan Sea Charts. See Ottoman Portolans

Becharius 1403. See 83

Census of Portolan Charts & Atlases, 75

Costa e arcipelago toscano nel Kitab i Bahriye di Piri Reis, 84

Finding their Way at Sea. The story of the portolan charts, the cartographers who drew them and the mariners who sailed by them, 86

Graphische Zeichen auf mittelalterlichen Portolankarten-Ursprunge, Produktion und Rezeption bis 1440, 84

Greek Portolan Charts

15th – 17th Centuries, 50

Portolan Chart of Gabriel de Vallseca, 76

Portolan Charts

The Key to Navigation in the Mediterranean and Beyond, 60

Roselli 1465. See 83

Utility and Aesthetic

The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth Century Portolan Charts, 83

Portolan, The (Washington Map Society)

Imre Demhardt Joins Editorial Advisory Board, 74

Index to Feature Articles (October 1984 - Spring 1992, 25

Reflections of the 10th Anniversary Issue, 31

The Portolan at 50, 50

Portugal

Luso-Hispanic World in Maps at the Library of Congress, 48

Maritime Discoveries, SE Coast of China, 1513-1550, 41

Portuguese Maritime Discoveries Along the South-East Coast of China in the First Half, 41

Post, J. B., 68, 77, 85

Postnikov, Alexey V., 53

Potter, Stephen R., 75

Powder Horn Maps

See Map Powder Horns, 57

Pre-20th Century Women in Cartography, 53

Preliminary Survey of the Cartographic Records of Howard County, Maryland., 36

Price Guides

Antique Map Price Record

Twenty-Five Years of Tracking the Antiquarian Map Trade, 74

Antique Map Price Record CD-ROM, 56

Integration of the Antique Map Price Record and OldMaps.com, 83

Prickett, Habbakkuk, 43

Prime Meridian. See Finding and Charting the World's Time

Primer on RSS Feeds, 81

Principles of Collecting, 50

Principles, Policies and Procedures of the Board of Geographic Names, 28

Prints

Painted Prints

The Revelation of Color, 56

Pritchard, Margaret Beck, 49, 57

Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula, 54

Problem of Cartography Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, 52

Propaganda and Mental Conditioning

The Role of Maps as Tools of, 14

Provost, Foster, 24

Ptolemy

A Map of Florence in  “Geography", 17

Cartography at The Margins

Johannes Schöner’s Annotations in the 1482 Ulm Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, 74

City Maps

Ptolemy’s Cosmography in the Renaissance, 17

Publications, Recent, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86

Putting America on the Map - The Achievement of Medieval Mapmakers, 70

Putting Appalachia on the Map OR Appalachia: Its Perception as a Barrier on Maps to 1733, 39

Putting Color in the Ordnance Survey Maps, 31

Putting Lancaster on the Map, 54

Putting 'Little’ Washington on the Map, 54

Quantico - Expanding a U.S. Marine Corps Base, 57

Quick Response (QR) Codes

Facebook, QR Codes and the WMS, 82

Quivira - The Legend and the Wine, 57

Railroad Maps. See Book/CD Reviews

Raleigh and Roanoke Exhibit Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of England’s First Colonial Attempt in America, 2

Raphaely, Dorothy, 56, 57, 76

Rapid Field Sketching: Making Maps for American Civil War Armies, 40

Rare Book School Holds First Map Course, 76

Rare Map Cataloging

Rare Map Cataloging - A Case of Special Considerations, 67

Rare Map Cataloging - A Case of Special Considerations, 67

Rattkay, Ivan, 86

Rebert, Paula, 56, 64

Recent Cartobibliographies: A Note on their Format, Purpose and a List, 3

Recent Developments in the History of Russian Cartography, 41

Record of an Ideal

Father Francesco Giusseppe Bressani's 1657 Map of New France, 61

Re-discovered Plan Map of Henrico Virginia, 1613, 43

Redmond, Edward J., 44, 48

Regio Patalis, 82

Australia on the Map in 1531?   (Early South Sea Voyages, or merely Cartographic Evolution?), 82

Reinhartz, Dennis, 43, 57, 59

Reis, Pirî, 25, 42, 43, 49, 52

Reisser, Wesley J., 71, 82

Relation of 16th Century Virginian Cartography to the Mapping of the Pacific, 48

Relation of Maryland and the First Map of the Colony, 4

Remembering Arctic Explorer Vilhajalmur Stefansson, 12

Remezov. See Russian Traditional Cartography

Remly, Dr. Lynn L., 32, 35

Rems, Jacob (Jim), 80

Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the ‘Monuments de la Géographie.’, 38

Reps, John, 11

Research on the John Hills Circular Map of Philadelphia, 35

Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, 75

Retish, Aaron B., 33

Reverend Thomas Wakefield - Unsung Geographer and Mapmaker in Late 19th Century Kenya, 73

Reynolds, William T. (Chip), 52, 73, 79

Rhodes, Robert G., 63, 64, 68

Richardson., Robert, 15

Ristow Prize. See Walter W. Ristow Prize

Ristow, Walter W., 1, 12, 27, 33, 59

Death Notice, 65

List of Publications by, 66

Personal Reminiscences, 66

Remembering Walter W. Ristow, 66

Remembrance of, 66

Walter W. Ristow's Legacy 1908-2006, 66

Ritzlin, George, 86

Ritzlin, Mary McM., 28, 86

Roanoke Voyages. See Mapping the North Carolina Coast

Robinson, A.H., 11

Rocky Mountain Map Fair

Impressions of, 62

Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, 48, 62, 67

Rohrer, Tom, 75

Role of Maps as Tools of Propaganda and Mental Conditioning, 14

Roman Cartographers

In Nietzsche's Shadow

Searching for Roman Cartographers in Southern France, 86

Roman Empire

Centuriatio: Roman Land Surveys, 13

Roman Land Surveys, 13

Roman World

Barrington Atlas - Mapping the Greek and Roman World, 49, 50

Roper, Stephanie Ann, 34

Rothman, Leonard A., 71

Route of a Collector’s Collection, 4

Royal Australian Survey Corps, 26

Royal Museum for Central Africa - Belgium

Maps in Libraries in Brussels and Tervuren, 62

Royal Thai Maps og the Nineteenth Century, 67

RSS Feeds, 81

Ruderman, Barry, 67

Rumsey, David, 55, See Book/CD Review - Cartographica Extraordinaire

Rural Free Delivery

US Post Office Department, Division of Topography and its Role in the Establishment of Rural Free Delivery, 64

Russia. See Russian Traditional Cartography

An Analysis of Anthony Jenkinson's Map of, 33

Historic Maps of Russia, 61

Maps in Books of Russia and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800, 84

Recent Developments in Cartography, 41

Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (Late 18th Century), 60

Van Verden Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, 83

Russian (Van Verden) Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, 83

Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (Late 18th Century), 60

Russian Traditional Cartography of the Seventeenth Century and the Importance of Semen Ul’yanovich Remezov and his Drawing Books of Siberia, 53

Ruth, Josef K., 72

Ruysch, Johann

Johann Ruysch and Martin Waldseemüller World Maps – The Interplay and Merging of Early Sixteenth Century New World Cartographies, 86

Sachse, Edward

Nineteenth Century Baltimore Lithographer, 11

Safier, Neil, 46

Sales, Pierre, 28, 51

Salisbury, Delaware?, 18

Sander, Thomas F., 37, 41, 42, 49, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, See Book/CD Reviews - Five Centuries of Maps & Charts of Croatia

Sanson, Nicolas, 45

Amerique Septentrionale, 45

Saudi Arabia

A Mecca Map, 12

Schecter, Barnet, 81

Scheel, Eugene M., 43, 46, 49, 54, 56, 57, 62, 65, 67, 68, 79, 81, 85

Scherer, Heinrich, 52

Schiller, Nikolas, 70

Schöner, Johannes

Cartography at The Margins

Johannes Schöner’s Annotations in the 1482 Ulm Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, 74

Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515 – Transcription and Study, 81

School Marm to Author: 19th Century Women Geographers, 28

Schroader, Lindsay, 80

Schuster, Carl G., 24

Schwartzberg, Dr. Joseph E., 19

Schwarz, Charlie, 27

Science, Giants and Gold: Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa Geográfico de America, 44

Scotland

At The Edge of the World - Mapping Scotland. See Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula

At the Edge of the World exhibition, 51, 52

Journey Into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), 60

Scott, Valerie, 22

Scull, Nicholas and William, 33

Sea Monsters

Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus

Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe, 81

Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus

Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe, 81

Searching for Early Maps - Use of Online Library Catalogs, 80

Seed, Patricia, 77

Sellers, John, 3

Sense of Place

Early Virginia Cartography, 19

September 11, 2001. See Half Moon

President's Note, 52

Seutter, Georg  Mattheus, 26

Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York, 26

Severy, Melissa, 60

Sex, Lies, and Old Maps: Observations on Early Maps of Virginia, 46

Shackelford, Michael G., 21

Sharjah, 48

Shauger, Fredric, 76, 82, 83

Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World, 24

Sheehan, Kevin E., 83

Sheesley, Benjamin C., 59

Sheikh Sultan, Emir of Sharjah, on the Name of the Gulf, 48

Ship History, 28

Shirley, Rodney W., 48, 62, 67, 76

Shrier, Stefan, 77

Sicily

Island Book of Henricus Martellus, 56

Miss de La Mapa Mundi, 63

Slovenia

Descriptions of, on Military Maps of 1763-1787, 50

Small, Albert H.. See Book/CD Review - Washington Images

Albert Small Washingtonia - WMS Field Trips 2012, 84

Smith Center for Cartographic Education, 29

Smith, Christine, 37

Smithsonian Institution

Power of Maps Exhibit, 29

Smithsonian’s Power of Maps Revisited, 29

Snyder, John P., 11, 15, 26, 28, 29

Obituary, 38

Space Oblique Mercator Projection, 57

Society for the History of Discoveries

Providence RI - October 1986, 8

Washington D.C. - November 1985, 5

Solving of a Mystery

A silver and gold-gilt celestial globe cup  from a catholic English monarch in Exile!,, 83

Something to Crow About: Map Collector Publications, Ltd, 22

Sorenson, Dale, 51

Soucek, Svat, 49

South America

Alexander von Humboldt

Scientific discoverer and cartographer of the Americas, 82

Cruz Cano's Mapa Graphico de America Meridional, 44

Jouhan de la Guilbaudière, his “Buccaneer’s Atlas”, and the Beginnings of French Trade along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700, 75

La Condamine's Amazon, 1743-44, 46

South Asia

Colonial Cartography - Mapping Imperial Expansion, 45

Southesat Asia

Vietnam - Maps of Alexandre de Rhodes, 65

Soviet Union (former)

Mapping in the, 18

Recent Developments in the History of  Russian Cartography, 41

Space Oblique Mercator Projection, 57

Spain

1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited, 56

Luso-Hispanic World in Maps at the Library of Congress, 48

Mapping Identity -  Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the Relaciones Geográficas, 74

Note on Seville in Braun and Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum.”, 10

Spira, Herb - Obituary, 58

Spotlight on the WMS Membership, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86

Spratt, T. See Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain

Stallard, Avan Judd, 69

Stanley, William A., 14, 58, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 79

Stefansson, Evelyn, 12

Stefansson, Vilhajalmur, 12

Stein. Mark, 80

Steinhilper, Diantha, 74

Stephens, Dr. John, 33

Stephenson, Richard W., 23, 33, 58, 60, 65, 66, 72, 81

Stern, Philip J., 40

Stevens, Isaac

Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-1854, 82

Steward, Henry J., 69, 74, 85

Stewart Museum

Globe Symposium, October 2000, 49

Stewart, Dr. Harris B. Jr.. See Mapping the Wet Part

Stipek, Lawrence, 31

Stone slabs or pillars, carved or inscribed. See Travels - In Pursuit of Old Steles

Strain, Priscilla, 8

Strait of Malacca

Minto Collectioon, 6

Strip Maps, 85

Suárez, Thomas, 24, 63

Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687).

Sultan, Sheikh (Emir of Sharjah), 48

Survey and Resurvey of the Fairfax Line., 49

Survey of the Coast

The Formative Years 1843-1900, 14

Surveying the Mahele, 31

Sweetkind-Singer, Julie, 57

Swem, Earl G., 17

Talbert, Richard J.A., 49, See Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Taliaferro, Henry, 66, 77, 86

Tasman, Abel. See  Navigating Tasman's 1642 Voyage of Exploration

Taylor, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Taylor and the Map-maker, 81

Taylor, Major Neil, 26

Taylor, Yardley. See Early Detailed Map of Loudoun County Virginia

Tennessee

Chattanooga, 66

Texas

Shapes of Texas - The Cartographic Evolution of an Icon, 54

Texas Adopt-A-Map Program, 53

Texas Map Postcards Revisited, 57

William Bollaert's  1842-1844 Texas Field Map, 72

Texas Adopt-A-Map Program, 53

Texas Map Society, 45, See Triple Texas Map Extravaganza – October 2010

Fall 2001 Meeting, 52

October 2000 Meeting, 49

October 2002  Meeting & Garrett Lectures, 55

Spring 2000 Meeting, 48

Spring 2002 Meeting, 53

Text and Image in Chinese Maps, 18

Thailand

Royal Thai Maps of the Nineteenth Century, 67

Tharp, Marie, 79

The Shapes of Texas - The Cartographic Evolution of an Icon, 54

Theberge, Albert E., 23, 66

Thibideau, Sharon, 10

Thomas Jefferson’s Sketches and the Founding of the Federal City, 12

Thomas, Leah, 81

Thompson, Emma, 81

Thrower, Dr. Norman J.W., 6, 40

Tools of a Master Engraver, 31

Torodash, Martin, 71

Toth, Michael B., 38

Trachtenberg, Dan, 57, 73, 76, 77

Traditional Cartography of the Islamic Classical Societies, 54

Traganou, Jilly, 47

Trans-Missouri West. See McCoy, Isaac

Travels:  Encounters with Elena S. Pini and Sigfried Feller, 27

Travels: In Pursuit of Old Steles, 28

Tribute to David Woodward, 61

Truth and Beauty - the Real World of Maps [Maps on Silk], 55

Turkey

Cartographic properties and current situation of the oldest picture map in Çatalhöyük, 75

Challenged Territories – Cartographies of Greece and the Levant during the Ottoman Era, 84

Turnham, Jennifer, 45

TV's 'Antiques RoadShow'. See Maps and TV's 'Antiques RoadShow'

U.S. Board of Geographic Names

Principles, Policies and Procedures of, 28

U.S. Department of State

State Department's Office of the Geographer - History and Current Activities, 64

U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. See Magnificent Voyagers

U.S. Federal Government in Postal Mapping, 1763 - 1930’s, 15

U.S. Geological Survey

New Quads Ain't What They Used to Be, 49

Records and History of, on CD-ROM, 50

U.S. Marine Corps

Marine Corps Maps, 24

Marine Corps Museum, 24

U.S. Post Office Department

Maps of Abraham Bradley, 77

USPOD, Division of Topography and its Role in the Establishment of Rural Free Delivery, 64

U.S. Postal Mapping, 15, 64, 77

Unidentified Manuscript Map in the Penn-Baltimore Controversy., 18

United Kingdom. See Map review - McElfresh Map of Normandy June 1944

Aberdeen, Scotland City Plan 1828, 35

At the Edge of the World

Mapping Scotland exhibit, 51, 52

At The Edge of the World Mapping Scotland exhibit.

Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ., 65

Britannia.  Reprints of Ogilby, 19

British Library Map Catalogue on CD-ROM, 47

Cartography in the Origina of Modern British Exploration of Africa, 40

Chorographia Britanniae - Maps of the Counties of England and Wales, 19

English Maps of Colonial America, 1530-1660, 34

Experimental Cartography in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918, 60

Finding the Family Farm in Scotland, 28

Give me the map there - King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England, 68

Hereford Mappa Mundi, 15

History of the UK Military Survey, 42

Island Book of Henricus Martellus, 56

Journey Into Africa - The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79), 60

London – A History in Maps, 86

Map of Landings made in England and Ireland from Wm the Conquerer to Our Times, 48

Map of York, England, 48

Normandy Maps and Models, 61

Ordnance Survey Maps, 31

World Apart

Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily, 31

United Kingdom Military Survey

History of, 42

United States. See Mapping and Empire - Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier, See The Articulate Traveller: Johann Georg Kohl and American Historical Geography, See Shedding the Veil

663rd Engineer Topographic Company, 61

Abraham Bradley's U.S. Postal Maps, 77

Alvin J. Johnson and His Role in 19th Century Map Making in America, 83

Amerindian Maps: Indigenous Roles and Intercultural Significance, 26

C&O Canal Map, 61

Cartographic First Fruits of the Lewis& Clark Expedition, 64

Cartography Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, 52

Colonial Cartography in North America, 45

Does This Country Have a Great Shape or What?, 25

Early American Cartographies, 84

English Maps of Colonial America, 1530-1660, 34

Folger Shakespeare Library - Maps at, 77

French, Spanish, US Claims - Louisiana Purchase, 52

General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker- Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department, 60

George Washington's America

A Biography Through His Maps, 81

Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England's Towns, 1849-1857, 71

How the States Got Their Shapes, 80

James Wilson and the Early American Globe Makers, 56

Klondike Road Maps - Selling Comfort and Convenience on the Route(s) to the Gold Fields, 67

Map Powder Horns OR Powder Horn Maps, 57

Map Sumposium on Colonial America, Oct 2002, 55

Mapping for Peace - the American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, 71

Mapping the Peace - American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles, 67

Mapping the West, 56

Maps from Colonial Williamsburg at the DAR Museum, 57

Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, 57

Maps of the California Trail, 51

Maps on Antique American Grandfather Clocks, 77

Marching with John W. Donn and Frederic W. Dorr - A Reminiscence of a Civil War Topographer, 66

Normandy Maps and Models, 61

Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-54. See Book/CD Reviews - Eye of the Explorer

Obscure Amos Lay - An Early Nineteenth American Cartographer, 71

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Putting Appalachia on the Map, 39

Quantico Marine Corps Base, 57

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 1 - The Mid-Atlantic States), 60

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 3 – Indiana, Lower Michigan & Ohio, 75

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 4 - Illinois, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan), 83

Rapid Field Sketching

Making Maps for American Civil War Armies, 40

U.S. Statistical Atlas of 1870, 55

United States Map as a National Symbol, 85

US Post Office Department, Division of Topography and its Role in the Establishment of Rural Free Delivery, 64

United States Map as a National Symbol, 85

United States Marine Corps

Quantico - Expanding a U.S. Marine Corps Base, 57

United States Post Office Department, Division of Topography and its Role in the Establishment of Rural Free Delivery, 64

United States.

Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 3 – Indiana, Lower Michigan & Ohio), 75

University of Maryland Baltimore Campus

Imaging Research Center. See Visualizing Early Washington DC

University of Virginia

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, 56

GEOSTAT, 56

Geospatial & Statistical Data Center. See Maps at Mr. Jefferson's University

Rare Book School Holds First Map Course, 76

Unveiling Vietnam - The Maps of Alexandre de Rhodes, 65

Ushapia Exhibit at Osher Map Library - 2012-2013, 84

Utah

J.H. Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah, 62

Utility and Aesthetic

The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth Century Portolan Charts, 83

Valentine Museum,, 24

Van der Krogt, Peter, 70

Van Duzer, Chet, 85

Van Ee, Patricia Molen, 50

Van Roy, Bruce, 32, 33, 71

Van Verden

Russian (Van Verden) Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, 83

Van Verden Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, 83

Vavra, Luke, 68, 76

Vavra, Patricia Ann, 78

Velilla, Loida, 53

Venus. Mapping the Planet, 24

Vermont

James Wilson and the Early American Globe Makers, 56

Vietnam

Captain Cupet and the King of Fire – Mapping and Minorities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, 84

Glimpse into Vietnam's Turbulent 19th Century, 73

Maps of Alexandre de Rhodes, 65

Portolan Article Sparks Research on possibly long-lost Vietnamese Map, 76

Vinland Map, 47

Vintage Cartography - The Use of Maps on Wine Labels, 43

Viola, Herman J., 8, 13

Virginia, 1

1791 District of Columbia Boundary Survey, 21

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Univ of Virginia, 56

Alexandria Archaeology Museum, 50

Alexandria Land Disputes. See Historical Maps as Evidence

Atoka Farm. See Elizabeth Taylor and the Map-maker

Boye Map of Virginia, 1827, 78

Buchholtz 1859 corrections to Boye Map of Virginia, 1827, 78

Bucholtz-Ludwig Map of Virginia and its Successors, 1858-1868, 68

Changing Perceptions

Charting Alexandria (1590-1999), 45

Charlottesville WMS Field Trip, 29

Charting the Chesapeake, 1590-1990 - exhibit, 21

Cheaspeake and Ohio Canal, 58

College of William and Mary, Maps at. See Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula

Colonel James Wood

Colonial Surveyor and Founder of Winchester, VA, 33

Copperplate Printing Project of 2004, 78

Copperplate Special at the Library of Virginia, 61

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum - Colonial Williamsburg. See Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula

Early Cartography of Virginia’s Northern Neck, 1

Early Detailed Map of Loudoun County Virginia, 62

Early Mapping of Fauquier County, 65

Early Mapping of the Chesapeake Bay, 32

Fauquier County, early mapping of, 65

From Contracts to Copperplates - The Malking of the 1827 State Map of Virginia, the Corrections in 1859, and the Copperplate Printing Project of 2004, 78

Fry-Jefferson Map Society Formed at the Library of Virginia, 68

History of Modern Mapping in Fairfax County, 32

J. T. Lloyd's Map of Virginia, 76

Jed Hotchkiss Maps at Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 74

Kanawha/New River on Mid Eighteenth Century Maps, 48

Library of Virginia Online Map Collections, 78

Library of Virginia Voorhees Lectures, 63

Library of Virginia, Gift of Maps to, 58

Library of Virginia’s Civil War Map Collection, 85

Mapping Delmarva’s Past - Exhibit May 1990, 18, 19

Mapping the Borders of Pennsylvania, 39

Mapping Virginia, from the Age of Exploration to the Civil War, 86

Maps and Friends in Petersburg and Richmond, 54

Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, 57

Maps in Alexandria's John Carlyle House, 32

Maps Relating to Virginia, 17

Modern-Day Historical Mapping, 43

Monticello, 29

Montpelier, 29

Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 74

Newly Formed Williamsburg Map Circle, 83

No Man's Island of Fairfax County, 68

Observations on the Early Maps of, 46

Ortelius's Chesapeake, 61

Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula, 54

Putting 'Little' Washington on the Map, 54

Re-discovered Plan Map of Henrico, 1613, 43

Relation of 16th Century Virginian Cartography to the Mapping of the Pacific, 48

Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia, 75

Survey and Resurvey of the Fairfax Line, 49

Univ of Virginia Alderman Library, 29

Virginia Historical Society, 24

Virginia in Maps

Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, 49

Virginia State Library and Archives, 24

Williamsburg WMS Field Trip - Feb. 1986, 6

Williamsburg WMS Field Trip - Nov 1999, 46

Virginia Historical Society, 24, 57

Virginia in Maps

Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development, 49

Virginia Sense of Place

Early Virginia Cartography, 19

Virginia State Library and Archives, 24

Virginia’s Northern Neck, 1

Visit to the Museo Nacional de la Cartografía, Mexico D. F, 81

Visualization and Modeling of the Environment

New Cartographic Products for the, 33

Visualizing  Early Washington DC, 80

Visualizing U.S. Geographies - The Statistical Atlas Breakthrough of 1870 and Today's Opportunities, 55

Vogel, Steven J., 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 72, 75,

National Geographic Society Field Trip April 2001, 52

Von Humboldt, Alexander, 82

Voorhees Lecture Series at Library of Virginia, 63

Voorhees Maps Gifted to Library of Virginia, 58

Voorhees Maps Gifted to the Virginia Historical Society, 57

Voorhees, Alan M.. See From Contracts to Copperplates...

Dual Remembrance, 65

Maps Gifted to Library of Virginia, 58

Maps Gifted to Virginia Historical Society, 57

Voorhees Lecture Series, 63

Wakefield, Reverend Thomas

Unsung Geographer and Mapmaker in late 19th Century Kenya, 73

Waldseemüller, Martin, 85

Exploring Waldseemüller’s World – An International Symposium, 74

Johann Ruysch and Martin Waldseemüller World Maps – The Interplay and Merging of Early Sixteenth Century New World Cartographies, 86

Map of 1507 compared with Apianus World Map of 1520, 77

On the Waldseemüller Trail, 70

Seeing the World Anew – The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps, 86

Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516

Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought, 85

Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516

Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought, 85

Walker, James V., 64, 77

Walling, Henry F., 71

Wallis, Dr. Helen, 2, 8, 11, 24

Obituary (1924-1995), 33

Walter W. Ristow Prize for Achievement in Cartographic History

Winners 2007, 70

Winners 2008, 73

Winners 2009, 76

Winners 2010, 79

Winners 2011, 82

Winners 2012, 85

Winning Article 2007, 71

Winning Article, 2008, 74

Winning Article, 2009, 77

Winning Article, 2010, 80

Winning Article, 2011, 83

Winning Article, 2012, 86

Walter W. Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship, 27

First Annual Prize - Competition Opened, 27

Ristow Prize - Doing What It Was Meant To Do, 72

Winner 1994, 30

Winners 1995, 33

Winners 1996, 37

Winners 1997, 40

Winners 1998, 43

Winners 1999, 46

Winners 2001, 52

Winners 2002, 55

Winners 2003, 58

Winners 2004, 61

Winners 2005, 64

Winners 2006, 67

Winning Article 1994, 31

Winning Article 1995, 34

Winning Article 1996, 38

Winning Article 1997, 40

Winning Article 1998, 44

Winning Article 1999, 46

Winning Article 2001, 52

Winning Article 2003, 59

Winning Article 2004, 62

Winning Article 2005, 65

Winning Article 2006, 68

Winning Article 2007, 71

Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Rare Books Room, 9

See Washington Map Society Baltimore Field Trip July 1998, 42.

Wanser, Heather Egan, 20, 54, 72

War Over Walloomscoick: Land Use and Settlement Pattern on the Bennington Battlefield - 1777, 22

Warner, Deborah Jean, 71

Warner, Dr. Deborah, 14

Warner, Senator John. See Elizabeth Taylor and the Map-maker

Warren, William J., 53, 61

Washington D.C.

Visualizing Early Washington DC, 80

Washington Map Society

10th Anniversary Dinner - April 1989, 15

25th Anniversary Symposium/Celebration, 58, 60

27th Annual Dinner - at US Capitol, 66

28th Annual Dinner - Ft. McNair, 70

29th Annual Dinner - Jones Day, 73

30th Annual Dinner - Jones Day 2009, 75

31st Annual Dinner - Gadsby's Tavern 2010, 78

32nd Annual Dinner - Army & Navy Club 2011, 81

33rd Annual Dinner - Gurtz Residence, 84

Albert Small Washingtonia - Field Trips 2012, 84

Alex. Archaeology Museum Field Trip - Nov 2000, 50

Annapolis MD Field Trip, 1996, 36

Annual Business Meeting - April 2006, 67

Annual Business Meeting - April 2007, 70

Annual Business Meeting - April 2008, 72

Annual Business Meeting - April 2009, 75

Annual Business Meeting - April 2011, 81

Annual Business Meeting - April 2012, 84

Annual Business Meeting - March 2004, 61

Annual Business Meeting - March 2005, 63

Annual Business Meeting - March 2010, 78

Annual Business Meeting - May 2000, 48

Annual Business Meeting - May 2001, 51

Annual Business Meeting - May 2002, 54

Annual Business Meeting - May 2003, 58

Antietam/Frederick Field Trip, May 2005, 64

Assn of American Geographers - Meeting April 2010, 78

Baltimore Field Trip - Festival of Maps - May 2008, 73

Baltimore Field Trip July 1998, 42

Baltimore Outing  Jan 1987 to Peabody Institute Library, 9

Baltimore Outing  Jan 1987 to Walters Art Gallery, 9

Charlottesville, VA Field Trip - April 2008, 72

DC Mayor Tony Williams Addresses the WMS, 68

Eleanor Abbey - A Charter Member's Memories, 63

Establishment of Membership Chair, 47

Facebook, QR Codes and the WMS, 82

Future of, 63

Group Portrait at Age 21

The Members of the WMS, 51

Harpers Ferry Field Trip October 2002, 56

Map Display, 10

Meet the New Editor - Thomas F. Sander, 37

Member Map Evening Feb 17, 2005, 64

Member Map Evening Mar 2009, 75

Member Map Evening Mar 2010, 78

Members Map Fair - February 1990, 18

National Building Museum Field Trip - April 2006, 65

National Geographic Society Field Trip April 2001, 52

New WMS Website Spring 2013, 86

New York City Field Trip - April 2001, 51

New York City Field Trip - Nov 1998, 43

New York City Field Trip - October 1992, 26

New York City Field Trip - October 2009, 76

Pennsylvania Field Trip, 1995, 35

Philadelphia Field Trip -May 1989, 15

Picnic of October 1996, 37

Picnics -  June & August 1995, 35

Princeton Univ Field Trip - Nov 2010, 80

Richmond Field Trip - April 1992, 24

Saturday Seminars, 63

Second Annual Picnic September 1994, 32

Summer Get-Together – August 1993, 27

Summer Picnic 1993, 28

Tenth Anniversary of Website, 67

Visit by NYC and Philadelphia Map Societies, Oct. 1995, 35

Washington Post Field Trip - Oct 2007, 70

Williamsburg Field Trip - Feb 1986, 6

Williamsburg Field Trip - November 1999, 46

Winchester VA Field Trip - Oct 2008, 74

Workshop on History of Cartography, 58

Washington Post

Wash Map Society Field Trip - Oct 2007, 70

Washington, D.C.

1791 District of Columbia Boundary Survey, 21

Benjamin Banneker's role in mapping, 79

C&O Canal Map, 61

City in Transition - Mapping the Nation's Capital from Civil War to the Creation of a Comprehensive Plan, 1861-1902, 72

City of Magnificent Distances

The Nation’s Capitol - exhibit, 23

Corcoran School of Art

Etching and Engraving, 27

DC Mayor Tony Williams Addresses the WMS, 68

Geography in - between Civil War and World War I, 44

Looking for 'Maps on Stone' in Washington, 62

Mapping of Washington - exhibit at George Washington University, 20

Old Naval Observatory., 15

Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s Plans for the Nation’s Capital, 11

Ptolemy & Copernicus - an Exhibit of Maps, 68

The City Plan as Work of Art - Intended and Unintended Meanings in Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 Manuscript Plan of Washington D.C., 78

Thomas Jefferson’s Sketches and the Founding of the Federal City, 12

Washington in Maps, 56

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

Washington, George. See Historical Maps as Evidence

First Map of his River Farm, 48

George Washington's America

A Biography Through His Maps, 81

Map Collection in the Library of Congress, 44

Watelet, Marcel, 41

Watson, Ruth, 65

Webster, Megan, 64, 72

Weiss, Thomas A., 86

Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer, 56

Wells, Edward

Atlas of 1700, 19

Welsh, Howard E.Obituary, 20

Wendt, Henry, 57

West Virginia

C&O Canal Map, 61

Cheaspeake and Ohio Canal, 58

Kanawha/New River on Mid Eighteenth Century Maps, 48

Nat Park Service Interpretive Design Center, 56

West, Myron, 65, 80

What is this Thing Called GIS?, 14

What Map Collecting Means to Me, 23

What’s New About the Vinland Map?, 47

Whewell, William, 59

White, Charles E., 58

Whitten, E.H. Timothy, 57

Why Maps are Useless in Determining the Columbus Landfall, 23

William Couling: Mapmaker Without Portfolio, 28

Williams and Heintz Map Printing Facility., 31

Williamsburg, Virginia

Newly Formed Williamsburg Map Circle, 83

Washington Map Society Visit  - February 1986, 6

Wilson, James, 56

Wilson, Walter E., 54, 73

Wilson, Woodrow

Black Book – Woodrow Wilson’s Maps for Peace, 82

Winchester, Virginia

Colonel James Wood, founder, 33

Jed Hotchkiss Exhibit at Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 74

Wine Labels

Quivira - The Legend and the Wine, 57

Use of Maps on, 43

Wisconsin

Geographic Curiosity Road Marker, 31

History of Cartography Project at Univ. of, 9, 25, 36

Withers, Marianne M., 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28, See Also McKee, Marianne M.

Wolf, Eric W., 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67

Eric W. Wolf, 1922-2007, 69

Eric W. Wolf's Professional Contributions, 69

Wolf, Raymond, 58, 63

Wolfe, James H., 35

Wolter, John A., 6, 59, 66

Women Cartographers

Pre-20th Century Women in Cartography, 53

School Marm to Author: 19th Century Women Geographers, 28

Women in Mapmaking, 27

Wood, Colonel James W., 33

Wood, John, 35

Woodward, David, 9, 36, 61

Wooldridge, William C., 56, 61, 68, 76

World Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily, 31

World of Herman Moll, 43

World of Names

an Introduction to the Nature and Variety of Placenames, 20

World Time Zone Charts. See Finding and Charting the World's Time

World War I

Black Book – Woodrow Wilson’s Maps for Peace, 82

Mapping for Peace - the American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919, 71

Mapping the Peace - American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles, 67

The Black Book

Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace, 85

World War II. See Map review - McElfresh Map of Normandy June 1944

663rd Engineer Topographic Company, 61

Normandy Maps and Models, 61

Worlidge, John, 76

Wyoming

Cartographic Evidence in a Landform (and Cultural) Dispute, 37

Ya'acov, Avraham bar. See Hebrew Holy Land Map of Avrahan bar Ya'acov

Yale University Library

The Lanman Collection, 19

Yee, Cordell D. K., 20

Young Readers

Expanding a Child’s World

a Selected Bibliography of Books Relating to Maps for Children and Young Readers, 81

Young, Jeanne, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 19, 22, 24, 25

Yugoslavia, Belgrade

Map That Bombed the Chinese Embassy, 73

Zellmer, Linda, 37

Zincography, 58


                                                                                     

 


 

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 1 - October 10, 1984

ARTICLE
Early Cartography of Virginia's Northern Neck. By Dr. Walter W. Ristow.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, October - November 1984.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, April 1984 - November 1985.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 2 - December 27, 1984

ARTICLES
Globes in the Library of Congress. By Andrew M. Modelski.
The Raleigh and Roanoke Exhibit Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of England's First Colonial Attempt in America. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Helen Wallis.
Map Festival: Places and Spaces. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Barbara Fine.
Notes on the Medieval Map. By P. J. Mode

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - March 1985.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, November 1984 - November 1985.
3.
Images of the World: The Atlas Through History. Report on the Library of Congress exhibit and symposium.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 3 - April 8, 1985

ARTICLES
Recent Cartobibliographies: A Note on their Format, Purpose and a List. By Eric W. Wolf.
Aerial Reconnaissance and Map Making During the Civil War. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by John Sellers.
Cartography at the National Geographic Society. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation by Dr. John Garver and NGS staff and tour of the NGS during a combined meeting of the Washington, New York and Delaware Valley Map Societies.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meeting, May 1985.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, February 1985 - September 1986.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 4 - September 8, 1985

ARTICLES
A Relation of Maryland and the First Map of the Colony. By H. Russell Morrison, Jr.
The Route of a Collector's Collection. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Janet Green.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September - December 1985.
2. Washington Map Society Officers, 1985 - 1986.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, June 1985 - February 1986.
4. International Conference on the History of Cartography. A report of the meeting in Ottawa in July 1985.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 5 - December 7, 1985

ARTICLES
The Case of the Mason and Dixon Line 'Mystery' Markers. By Edward C. Papenfuse, Jr. and Richard Richardson.
The National Ocean Service. A summary by Jeanne Young of a Society visit to the NOS, which included presentations and a tour.
Men of Daring, Triumphs of Exploration. A report by Gary L. Fitzpatrick on the seminar held at the National Museum of Natural History.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - March 1996.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, October 1985 - May 1986.
3. Society for the History of Discoveries. A report of the 25
th annual meeting of the SHD held in Washington, DC in November 1985.
4. Monarchs, Ministers, and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe. A report by David Buisseret of the November 1985 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 6 - April 28, 1986

ARTICLES
The (Minto) Collection of Maps from the Strait of Malacca and the East Indies of Great Historical Interest, now Preserved at the Library of Congress. By John A. Wolter
Map Collections, Scholarship, and Sales in California. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Norman J.W. Thrower.
The Allan Lee Collection of Map Stamps. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Jim O'Donnel and Joseph Geraci.
The Career of William Henry Holmes. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation by Andrew J. Cosantino to a joint meeting of the Society and the Cosmos Club Monday Night Lecture Group.
The Williamsburg Outing. A report by Nancy Miller on the Society field trip of February 1986.
An Index to
The Map Collector's Circle (1963-1975). By Eric W. Wolf.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meeting, May 1986.
2. Washington Map Society Officers, 1986 - 1987.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, May - October 1986.
4. A Cartographic Item by Lewis Carroll from
The Hunting of the Snark.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 7 - September 9, 1986

ARTICLES
Ottoman Portolans: Turkish Sea Charts. By Dr.Thomas D. Goodrich.
Northwest Passage: Unraveling the Mystery Through Maps. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a presentation to the Society by Charles Burroughs.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 1986 - May 1987.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, September - November 1986.
3. Washington Map Society Officers, 1986 - 1987.
4. A Curious Kind of Human Monster on an Old Japanese Map.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 8 - December 29, 1986

ARTICLES
On Coronelli and His Globes. By Jonathan T. Lanman.
Magnificent Voyagers: U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. A report by Nancy Goddin Miller on a Society visit to the Smithsonian Exhibit and presentations by Herman Viola, Charles Burroughs, and Ralph Ehrenberg.
Cartographic Innovations. A summary by James Flatness of a presentation by Dr. Helen Wallis to the Society and the Washington D.C. Chapter, Geography and Map Division, Special Libraries Association.
The History of Aerial Photography. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a joint presentation to the Society by Priscilla Strain and Gideon Biger.
Society of the History of Discoveries/Hakluyt Society. A report by Charles A. Burroughs of the joint meeting of the groups in Providence, RI, in October 1986.

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1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 1987.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, February - May 1987.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 9 - April 16, 1987

ARTICLES
Isaac McCoy: Forgotten Mapper of the Trans-Missouri West. By John B. Garver, Jr.
Gettysburg Field Trip. A report by Michael Miller on the March 1987 Society outing, which included the presentations on the mapping of the Civil War battlefield and a visit to the Stuckenburg map collection, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College.
Baltimore Field Trip. A report by Pat Fitzgerald of the January 1987 outing to the Peabody Institute Library and the Walters Art Gallery Rare Books Room.
The History of Cartography Project. A brief summary by Michael Miller of a presentation to the Society by Professor David Woodward.
The Early Mapping of Hawaii. A summary by Mike Miller of a presentation to the Society by Gary Fitzpartick.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - June 1987.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, April - September 1987.
3.
Polyhedral Globes. By Jonathan T. Lanman.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 10 - September 1, 1987

ARTICLES
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler's First Chart. By Charles A. Burroughs.
Astrolabes. A summary by Don Orlando of a presentation to the Society by Sharon Thibideau.

Washington Map Society Map Display. A report by Michael S. Hirsch of a member display and discussion of maps in their collections.
A Note on Seville (Spain) in Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum." By Jonathan T. Lanman.

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1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September - December 1987.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, September - December 1987.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 11 - January 30, 1988

ARTICLES
Map Projections. By John P. Snyder.
The Nineteenth Century Baltimore Lithographer, Edward Sachse. A summary by Paul Cohen of a presentation to the Society by Professor Emeritus John Reps of Cornell University.
Pierre Charles L'Enfant's Plans for the Nation's Capital in Washington. A summary by Paul Cohen of a presentation to the Society by Don Hawkins.
The Historical Use of Maps in Litigation. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a presentation to the Society by Louis De Vorsey, Jr.
The Pillar Dollar. By Jonathan T. Lanman.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Cartographic Innovations: An International Handbook of Mapping Terms to 1900. Wallis, H.M. and Robinson, A.H., editors. (Review by Jonathan T. Lanman).

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - May 1988.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, January - April 1988.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 12 - April 30, 1988

ARTICLES
Thomas Jefferson's Sketches and the Founding of the Federal City. By Don A. Hawkins.
A Mecca Map. By Jonathan T. Lanman
Decoration on Maps. A summary by Marianne M. Withers of a presentation to the Society by Professor J. Brian Harley.
Remembering Arctic Explorer Vilhajalmur Stefansson. A brief summary by Charles A. Burroughs of a presentation by Evelyn Stefansson to Society members and members of the Explorers Club.
The Maryland Hall of Records/Archives. A brief report by Russ Morrison of a visit to Annapolis and a presentation/tour of the facility by Ed Papenfuse.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meeting, May 1988.
2. Washington Map Society Officers, 1988-1989.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, May - October 1988.
4. Obituary of Dr. Jonathan T. Lanman, Editor,
The Portolan, October 1984 - February 1988. By Walter W. Ristow.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 13 - September 26, 1988

ARTICLES
Centuriatio: Roman Land Surveys. By Dr. George Kish
From Crowquill to Computer: A History of Cartography at the National Geographic Society. A summary by Marianne M. Withers of a presentation to the Society by Dr. John B. Garver, Jr.

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BOOK NOTE
Mapping the North Carolina Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages. By William P. Cumming.

BOOK REVIEW
Exploring the West. By Herman J. Viola. (Review by Charles A. Burroughs).

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, October - November 1988.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, September - December 1988.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 14 - January 30, 1989

ARTICLES
What is this Thing Called GIS? By Gary W. North.
Mapping the Public Domain: The General Land Office in the Nineteenth Century. A summary by Michael L. Miller of a presentation to the Society by Ronald L. Grim.
The Role of Maps as Tools of Propaganda and Mental Conditioning. A brief summary by Michael L. Miller of a presentation to the Society by Carlos B. Hagen.
The Survey of the Coast: The Formative Years 1843-1900. A summary by Marianne M. Withers of a presentation to the Society by William A. Stanley about the evolution of the Office of Charting and Geodetic Services, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Geography of Heaven and Earth. A summary by Marianne M. Withers of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Deborah Warner, who discussed globes, in particular those of American manufacture.
National Geographic Adopts New World Map.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - March 1989.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, December 1988 - April 1989.
3. Bookworm Maps Hole New World. (from South China Sunday Morning Post, Hong Kong).

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 15 - May 26, 1989

ARTICLES
The Mystery of the Cantino Map. By Arne B. Molander.
The History of the Old Naval Observatory. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a Society visit to the site and a presentation by Jan Herman.
The U.S. Federal Government in Postal Mapping, 1763 - 1930's. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a presentation to the Society by Robert Richardson.
Carto-Philately. A brief summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a presentation to the Society by Jim Golliver.
The Early History of the U.S. Lake Survey. A summary by Robert Highbarger of a presentation to the Society by Chris Baruth.
Map Projections. A brief summary by Robert Highbarger of a presentation to the Society by John Snyder.
Philadelphia Field Trip, May 1989. A report on the Society outing to the Maritime Museum, Atwater Kent Museum, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Print Shop.
The Hereford Mappa Mundi. By Eric W. Wolf.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Officers, 1989 - 1990.
2. Exhibits and Meetings, June - August 1989.
3. Washington Map Society Dinner April 1989, on the Society's 10th Anniversary.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 16 - Fall 1989

ARTICLES
Charles Sanders Pierce - Sesquicentennial International Congress. A report by Charles A. Burroughs of a meeting held at Harvard University in 1989.
An Analysis of Indian-White Land Transfers Using Cartographic Data. A brief summary by Mike Miller of a presentation to the Society by Daniel G. Cole

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September - November 1989.
2. Exhibits and Meetings, September 1989 - February 1990.
3. The XIIIth International Conference on the History of Cartography. A brief report on the meeting held in Amsterdam and The Hague, June-July 1989.
4. IMCoS Symposium. Plans for the October 1990 event in Washington.
5. Columbus Quincentenary Exhibition Program Established at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
6. Obituary of Herman Ralph Friis.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 17 - Winter 1990

ARTICLES
Mapping the City in the Renaissance: A Map of Florence in Ptolemy's "Geography." By Dr. Naomi Miller.
A Geological Map Mystery: An 1857 Map of Pennsylvania. A summary by Marianne M. Withers of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Donald Hoskins.
City Maps: Ptolemy's Cosmography in the Renaissance. A summary by Melanie Gardner of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Naomi Miller.

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BOOK NOTE
Maps Relating to Virginia. By Earl G. Swem.

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - May 1990.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, February - August 1990.
3. The Huntington Collection (of Maps and Charts of Maryland) Being Given to the Maryland State Archives.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 18 - Spring 1990

ARTICLES
Unidentified Manuscript Map in the Penn-Baltimore Controversy. By H. Russell Morrison, Jr.
Washington Map Society Members Map Fair, February 1990. By Charles A. Burroughs.
Text and Image in Chinese Maps. A summary by Arne Molander of a presentation to the Society by Cordell D. K. Lee.
Mapping in the Soviet Union. A summary by Michael Miller of a presentation to the Society by Gary North.
Salisbury, Delaware? A cartographic note by Charles A. Burroughs.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meeting, May 1990.
2. Washington Map Society Officers Nominated for 1990-1991.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, March - October 1990.
4.
Mapping Delmarva's Past. Exhibit May 1990 in Salisbury, MD.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 19 - Fall 1990

ARTICLES
The Lanman Collection, Yale University Library.
IMCoS Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary. By Janet Green.
The Biggest Map Collector: How Does the National Archives Decide What Maps to Keep? A summary by Mile Miller of a presentation to the Society by Nancy Goddin Miller.
Cosmographic Globes from India: A Comparative Analysis. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Joseph E. Schwartzberg.
Abstracts of Papers, Eighth Annual International Symposium, IMCoS, Washington, October 1990.
NOAA "Science and History Center" Moves Forward.

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BOOK NOTES
Britannia. Reprints of Ogilby.
Chorographia Britanniae - Maps of the Counties of England and Wales. Reprints of Thomas Badeslade.

BOOK REVIEWS
Glimpses of History from Old Maps - A Collector's View. By Jonathan T. Lanman. (Review by Janet Green).
Charting the Chesapeake. By Russell Morrison and Robert Hansen. (Review by Charles A. Burroughs).

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, August - November 1990.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, September 1990 - January 1991.
3. Recent Map Exhibits. Reports on
Mapping Delmarva's Past and A Sense of Place: Early Virginia Cartography.
4. A New Map of North America. Note on Edward Wells Atlas of 1700.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 20 - Winter 1991

ARTICLES
Aesthetics and Traditional Chinese Mapmaking. By Cordell D. K. Yee.
The Conservation and Preservation of Maps. A summary by M. Whithers of a joint presentation to the Society by Don Cresswell and Heather Wanser.
A World of Names: an Introduction to the Nature and Variety of Placenames. A summary by Donald J. Orth of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Ronald E. Grim.
Center for Mapping, The Ohio State University. A description of the organization by John D. Bossler and Nancy Kaler.
The Mapping of Washington. A description by Richard W. Stephenson of the George Washington University exhibition.

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1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - April 1991.
2. Exhibitions, Meetings and Events, February - November 1991.
3. Welcome Pierre L'Enfant. Announcement of Bicentennial Party.
4. Obituaries - Howard E. Welsh and Janet C. Green.
5. Photos of the
Mapping America, the Eighth Annual International Symposium, IMCoS, held October 1990 in Washington, DC and hosted by the Washington Map Society.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 21 - Spring 1991

ARTICLES
1791 District of Columbia Boundary Survey. By Michael G. Shackelford.
Charting the Chesapeake, 1590-1990. A description by Marianne M. Withers of the Society trip to this exhibit at the Calvert Marine Museum at Solomons, in southern Maryland.
The Columbus Quincentennial Program at the Library of Congress. A summary by Arne B. Molander of the joint presentation to the Society by Barbara Loste and Dr. Louis De Vorsey.
Pierre L'Enfant Welcomed in Grand Style. A description by John Fondersmith of the Welcome Pierre 200 civic celebration.

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BOOK REVIEW
The Maps and Prints of Paolo Forlani: A Descriptive Bibliography. By The Newman Library. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September - October 1991
2. Exhibitions, Meeting and Events, June - December 1991.
3. Washington Map Society Officers for 1991-1992.
4. Remembering Janet Green. An obituary by Nancy Miller.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 22 - Fall 1991

ARTICLES
Cartographic Interpretation of the Columbus Signature. By Arne Molander.
Cartographic Resources for the Study of North American Indians. A summary by Jeanne Young of the address to the Society by outgoing President James Flatness.
Something to Crow About: Map Collector Publications, Ltd. By Valerie Scott.
The 11th Annual IMCoS Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland. A report by Charles Burroughs.
Circa 1492, Art in the Age of Exploration. Comments by Pauk Peak on the Library of Congress exhibit.

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BOOK REVIEWS
War Over Walloomscoick: Land Use and Settlement Pattern on the Bennington Battlefield - 1777. Compiled by Philip Lord, Jr. (Review by Paul Peak).
Mapping the French Empire in North America: An Interpretive Guide. By David Buisseret. (Review by Charles A. Burroughs).

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, October - December 1991.
2. Exhibitions, Meeting and Events, October 1991 - January 1992.
3. IMCoS Project Announcement:
The History of the Cartography of Eastern Mediterranean to Include Cyprus.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 23 - Winter 1992

ARTICLES
Charting the Americas: 500 Years of Progress. By Captain Albert E. Theberge, NOAA.
City of Magnificent Distances: The Nation's Capitol. A summary by Joyce Gross of a presentation to the Society by Dick Stephenson describing the Library of Congress exhibition.
The Columbus Quincentenary Program. A summary by Charles A. Burroughs of a trio of presentations to the Society by Dr. John Hébert (Library of Congress program), Dr. Alicia Gonzalez (Smithsonian program), and Joseph Judge (Why Maps are Useless in Determining the Columbus Landfall).
What Map Collecting Means to Me. A summary by Nancy and Mike Miller of a panel discussion by Society members.
IMCoS Ninth International Symposium. A report by Robert Highbarger on the event in Singapore and Sydney.

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1. Washington Map Society Meetings and Events, February - May 1992.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, February - August 1992.
3. Obituary of J. Brian Harley. By Charles A. Burroughs.
4.
Orienteer! The Thinking Sport. A description of an outing by Society members with the Quantico Orienteerning Club.
5. Cartographic Notes: Ralph Ehrenberg appointed new Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 24 - Spring 1992

ARTICLE
The Changing Face of Hudson Bay - Cartographic or Chronologic Dilemma? By Carl G. Schuster.
Marine Corps Maps. A summary by Marc Cheves of a visit to the Marine Corps Museum and a presentation to the Society by George MacGillivray.
Mapping New Worlds: The Planet Venus. A summary by Melanie Gardner of a presentation to the Society by Dr. David Okerson.
Richmond Field Trip. A report by John and Susan Docktor of a Society field trip to the Virginia State Library and Archives, the Valentine Museum, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Berkeley Hotel.
The Amusement of My Leisure Hours: The John Innys Collection. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by Helen Wallis.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Key to the Encounter: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of the Age of Discovery. By Louis De Vorsey, Jr. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)
Columbus: An Annotated Guide to the Scholarship on His Life and Writings, 1750-1988. By Foster Provost. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)
Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America and the World. By Thomas Suárez. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Exhibitions, Meetings, and Events, April - November 1992.
2. Washington Map Society Officers and Board, 1992-1993.
3. News You Can Use: Suppliers of Conservation Materials and Services.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 25 - Fall 1992

ARTICLES
Columbus and the Depiction of Hispaniola and Cuba on the Piri Reis Map of 1513. By Gregory C. McIntosh.
IMCoS Annual Meeting - Greenwich and London - June 1992. A report by Jeanne Young.
Does This Country Have a Great Shape or What? By John Fondersmith.
1492 - An Ongoing Voyage. A summary by Melville E. Blake, Jr. of the lecture and guided tour of the Library of Congress exhibit presented by Dr. John Hébert.
Visit to the History of Cartography Project. A report on her visit to the University of Wisconsin site by Marianne Withers.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 1992 - March 1993.
2. Exhibitions, Meetings, and Events, September 1992 - March 1993.
3. WMS Cartographic Research Project Grant Committee. Progress Report.
4.
The Portolan. Index to Feature Articles (October 1984 - Spring 1992).

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 26 - Winter 1993

ARTICLES
Seutter/Lotter Map of Pensylvania Nova Jersey et Nova York. By John Docktor.
New York City Field Trip. A report by Marianne M. Withers on the Society trip to the New York Public Library, two map dealers, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Amerindian Maps: Indigenous Roles and Intercultural Significance. A summary by John P. Snyder of a presentation to the Society by Dr. C. Malcolm Lewis.
Royal Australian Survey Corps. A summary by Robert Highbarger of a presentation to the Society by Major Neil Taylor.
The Map Collection of the National Széchényi Library of Hungary. A report of his visit by Eric W. Wolf.

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1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - May 1993.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, February - October 1993.
3. The International Society for the History of Cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.
4. Photo Mosaic. 11th International IMCoS Symposium in Madrid, Spain - October 1992.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 27 - Spring 1993

ARTICLES
The Articulate Traveller: Johann Georg Kohl and American Historical Geography. By Michael P. Conzen.
Civil War Mapping. A summary by Charlie Schwarz of the joint presentation to the Society of Peter Roper and John Knoerl.
Women in Mapmaking. A summary by Mike Miller of a presentation to the Society by Alice Hudson.
Corcoran School of Art: Etching and Engraving. A summary by Jim Gearhart of a talk and demonstration to the Society by Scip Barnhart.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Summer Get-Together.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, July 1993 - May 1994.
3.
The Write Way. Guest Editorial by Walter W. Ristow.
4. Washington Map Society Officers and Board for 1993-1994.
5. Opening of Competition for First Annual Walter W. Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship (Washington Map Society).
6.
Travels: Encounters with Elena S. Pini and Sigfried Feller.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 28 - Fall 1993

ARTICLES
School Marm to Author: 19th Century Women Geographers. By Mary McM. Ritzlin.
William Couling: Mapmaker Without Portfolio. By Marianne M. Withers.
Six Members Describe Projects at October Meeting. A summary by Arne Molander of presentations to the Society by John Snyder (From Russia with Latitude and Longitude: The Translation of a Cartographic Textbook), Gary Fitzpartick (Computer Mapping), Pearce Grove (Copper Plates and Ship History), Paul Peak (Finding the Family Farm in Scotland), Pierre Sales (Country Place Names in Africa), and David Orth (Principles, Policies and Procedures of the Board of Geographic Names).
Travels: In Pursuit of Old Steles. A report by Kenneth Starr of a six-week journey to China seeking carved or inscribed stone slabs or pillars used for commemorative purposes.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 1993 - February 1994.
2. Exhibitions, Meetings & Events, September 1993 - May 1994.
3. Washington Map Society Summer Picnic 1993.
4.
A Monumental Project: Memorial to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, Surveyor. By Charles A. Burroughs.
5. Dresden Map Theft.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 29 - Winter/Spring 1994

ARTICLES
Mapping the Wet Part: A Century and a Half of Physical and Geological Oceanography in the Coast Survey. By Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr.
Charlottesville Field Trip. A report by John P. Snyder and Charles A. Burroughs on the Society outing to the University of Virginia, Monticello, and Montpelier.
From the Round Earth's Four Corners….The Smithsonian's Power of Maps Revisited. A review of the exhibit by Dr. Lynn L. Remly.
Charting Religious Horizons: Holy Land Maps from the Halperin Collection. A report by Pearce Grove on the exhibit and symposium at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - August 1994.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, January - June 1994.
3. The Osher Map Library and the Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 30 - Summer 1994

ACTA CARTOGRAPHICA - A series of Monographs and Studies on the History of Cartography, reprinted from periodicals since 1800. Volumes I (1967) - XXVII (1981). The 23-page Table of Contents is listed alphabetically by author, and the five-page index is alphabetical by subject and author. Compiled and edited by Eric W. Wolf.

SHORTER ITEMS
Winners of 1994 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship. This is the first year for this annual award.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 31 - Fall 1994

ARTICLES
World Apart: Norman Mappaemundi in England and Sicily. By John Hamer. This article in the winner of the 1994 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Surveying the Mahele. A summary of his presentation to the Society by Gary Fitzpatrick.
Interview with Mark Budd, Assistant Production Manager, Williams and Heintz Map Printing Facility. A summary by Charles Burroughs of the interview conducted during a Society tour.
The Mythical Map: On the Existence of Global Mapping. A summary by Lawrence Stipek of a presentation to the Society by Dr. John Estes.
Penny Plain-Tuppence Coloured. A summary by Charles A. Burroughs of a presentation to the Society entitled Putting Color in the Ordnance Survey Maps by Ian Mumford.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, October 1994 - April 1995.
2. Exhibitions, Meeting and Events, Fall and Winter 1994 - 1995.
3. And Into the Present -
The Portolan Today. Reflections on this 10th Anniversary Issue..
4. Tools of a Master Engraver. By Benjamin M. Nietzey.
5. Geographic Curiosity. Road Marker near Green Bay, Wisconsin.
6. Obituary of Robert Alexander Marshall.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 32 - Winter 1995

ARTICLES
The History of Modern Mapping in Fairfax County, Virginia. By Brendon Ford.
Three on a Tuesday. A summary by Dr. Lynn L. Remly of a joint presentation to the Society by Barbara Fine, Bert Johnson, and Bruce Van Roy.
Allegories in 18th Century Map Cartouches. A summary by John Docktor of a presentation to the Society by Don Cresswell.
Early Mapping of the Chesapeake Bay. A summary by Paul Peak of a presentation to the Society by Ed Papenfuse.
A Taste of Maine. A description by Charles A. Burroughs of the Inaugural Conference and Opening of the Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of South Maine.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 1995.
2. Exhibitions, Meeting and Events, March - June 1995.
3. Summary of second Annual Picnic of the WMS, September 1994.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 33 - Summer 1995

ARTICLES
Nicholas and William Scull of Pennsylvania. By John W. Docktor.
Dr. Ristow's Work at the New York Public Library During World War II. A summary by Nancy Goddin Miller of a presentation to the Society by Alice Hudson.
Cartographic Shift to the Geospatial Paradigms (or Mapping Manipulations for the Masses). A summary by Bruce Van Roy of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Joel E. Morrison entitled New Cartographic Products for the Visualization and Modeling of the Environment.
Colonel James Wood: Colonial Surveyor and Founder of Winchester, VA. A summary by Charles A. Burroughs of a presentation to the Society by Richard W. Stephenson.
History of H. M. Gousha Mapping Company. A summary by John Fondersmith of a presentation to the Society by Dr. John Stephens.
From Plantagenet to Saxe-Coburg, Maps from the Fiat Lux Library 1482-1899. A description by Charles A. Burroughs of the opening reception, slide presentation and map symposium held May and June 1995 at the Gelman Library, George Washington University.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings and Events May - November 1995.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, July - December 1995.
3. 1995 Ristow Prize Winners Announced.
4. Obituary of Helen Wallis, O.B.E. (1924-1995). By Dr. Walter W. Ristow.
5.
A Foreign Perception of Russia: An Analysis of Anthony Jenkinson's Map of Russia, Muscovy and Tartaria. An abstract of the third prize paper of the 1994 Ristow Prize competition. (A 10 page supplement to this issue contains the paper by Aaron B. Retish in its entirety.)
6.
A Collector's World. Thoughts by Barbara Adele Fine.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 34 - Fall 1995

ARTICLE
Image is Everything: English Maps of Colonial America as Promotional Tools, 1530-1660. By Stephanie Abbot Roper. This paper is the winner of the 1995 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings November 1995 - May 1996.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, December 1995 - April 1996.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 35 - Spring 1996

ARTICLES
John Wood's 'Plan of the City of Aberdeen, 1828': An Evaluation of an Historical Source. By Martin J. Coulter. This article was awarded second-place in the 1995 Ristow Prize competition.
October 21-22, 1995 Meeting in Washington, D.C. A description by John W. Docktor of the two-day visit by the New York and Philadelphia Map Societies. Hosted by the members of the Washington Map Society, the visit consisted of lectures, tours and visits to local exhibits.
Mapping the Holy Land, Based on the Bible. A summary by Dr. Lynn L. Remly of a presentation to the Society by Harold Broadsky.
Maps as Evidence in Maritime Boundary Disputes. A summary by Marianne M. McKee of a presentation to the Society by James H. Wolfe.
Research on the John Hills Circular Map of Philadelphia. A summary by Steven Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Christopher Lane.
Cartographic Field Trip to Pennsylvania. A summary by Steven J. Vogel of a 1995 Society field trip to GeoSystems and the Heritage Map Museum.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 1996.
2. Meetings and Exhibitions, April - July 1996.
3. WMS Picnics - June & August 1995. Reminiscences by Marianne McKee, Grace Burroughs, and Mike Miller

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 36 - Summer 1996

ARTICLES
Preliminary Survey of the Cartographic Records of Howard County, Maryland. By Mary Mannix.
A Voyage by Francesco Carletti, a Florentine Merchant, begun in 1594. Translation by Robert Highbarger.
The History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin. A summary by Jeanne Young of a presentation to the Society by David Woodward.
Cartographic Field Trip to Annapolis. A description of the trip by Steve Vogel.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September - October 1996.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, October - November 1996.
3. Election of 1996-1997 Officers, Washington Map Society

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 37 - Winter 1997

ARTICLES
The Isolario of Benedetto Bordone. By Robert A. Highbarger
Conservation of Old Maps in Private Collections. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Christine Smith.
Cartographic Evidence in a Wyoming Landform (and Cultural) Dispute. A summary by Charles Burroughs of a presentation to the Society by Linda Zellmer.
The Antique Map Trade: An Insider's View. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Judith Blakely.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Meet the New Editor - Thomas F. Sander.
2. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 1997.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, February - May 1997.
4. 1996 Ristow Prize winners announced.
5. Competition opened for 1997 Ristow Prize.
6. Summary of WMS Picnic of October 1996 with recipe for Mercator Chicken.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 38 - Spring 1997

ARTICLES
Repressed Mimesis: Jomard and the 'Monuments de la Géographie.' by Stephen C. Pinson. This is the winner of the 1996 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Africa: A Continent Revealed. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Michael B. Toth.
The 'Evil Genius' and Other Cartographic-Political Satires. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Eric W. Wolf.

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BOOK REVIEW
Miniature Antique Maps: An Illustrated Guide for the Collector. by Geoffrey King. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Exhibitions and Meetings, Spring and Summer 1997.
2. Obituaries: John P. Snyder and Margery Fine.
3. On the California Trail with Charlie Burroughs.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 39 - Fall 1997

ARTICLES
Mapping of the Borders of Pennsylvania, 1681-1921 by John W. Docktor.
In Transit: Medieval Itinerary Maps and Texts of the Middle Ages. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Evelyn Edson.
Putting Appalachia on the Map OR Appalachia: Its Perception as a Barrier on Maps to 1733. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Ms. Alice Hudson.

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BOOK REVIEW
Images and Icons of the New World: Essays on American Cartography. Edited by Karen Severud Cook. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 1997 - February 1998.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Fall 1997 - Spring 1998.
3. On the Trail with Charlie Burroughs - Part II.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 40 - Winter 1998

ARTICLES
Not Withstanding the Efforts of the Ancients and the Wishes of the Moderns: The Authority of Cartography in the Origins of the Modern British Exploration of Africa by Philip J. Stern. This paper is the winner of the 1997 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Rapid Field Sketching: Making Maps for American Civil War Armies. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Earl McElfresh.
Maps and Civilization: Inspiration and Sources. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Dr. Norman J.W. Thrower.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, February - May 1998.
2. 1997 Ristow Prize winners announced.
3. Exhibitions and Meetings, Spring 1998 - Year 2000.
4. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress celebrates 100th anniversary.
5. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 41 - Spring 1998

ARTICLES
The Portuguese Maritime Discoveries Along the South-East Coast of China in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: A Cartographic View, 1513-1550 by Stephen Tseng-hsin Chang. This paper received honorable mention in the 1997 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Recent Developments in the History of Russian Cartography by Leonid S. Chekin. This paper was presented to the Society by the author.
Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Paul E. Cohen and Robert T. Augustyn.

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BOOK REVIEWS
The Mercator Atlas of Europe: Facsimile of the maps by Gerardus Mercator contained in the Atlas of Europe, circa 1570-1572 edited by Marcel Watelet. (Review by Bob Highbarger)
The Shadow of the Moon: British Solar Eclipse Mapping in the Eighteenth Century by Geoff Armitage. (Review by Tom Sander)
Collecting Old Maps by F.J. Manasek. (Review by Bert Johnson)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - July 1998.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Spring 1998 - Year 2000.
3. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
4. Washington Map Society Field Trip to Baltimore July 25, 1998.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 42 - Fall 1998

ARTICLES
Juan de la Cosa's Mapping of the Columbus Landfall. by Arne B. Molander.
The History of the United Kingdom Military Survey: 250 Years of Support for the Armed Forces. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Peter Parkinson.
The Early Mapping of Canada: An Idiosyncratic History. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Stuart Hughes.
Political Mythology in the John Potts Manuscript Map (1758) Showing Brigadier-General John Forbes's Route to Fort Duquesne. A summary by Steve Vogel of a presentation to the Society by James P. Myers, Jr.

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BOOK REVIEW
The Oxford Atlas of Exploration. (Review by Tom Sander)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, October-December 1998.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Fall 1998 - Year 2000.
3. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
4. Washington Map Society July 1998 Field Trip to Baltimore by Bert Johnson.
5. Washington Map Society Field Trip to New York City, Nov. 14, 1998.
6. Awards/Honors - Steward, Gole and Dahl.
7. The Maps of
Amistad (and Other Films).

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 43 - Winter 1998 -1999

ARTICLES
Vintage Cartography - The Use of Maps on Wine Labels, by Hubert O. Johnson
Early Maps of Africa: The Crucial Decades from 1490 to 1520, A summary by Steven J. Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Fred L. Hadsel
The World of Herman Moll, A summary by Steven J. Vogel of a presentation to the Society by Dennis Reinhartz
Henry Hudson, Hessell Gerritsz and Habbakkuk Prickett, by Douglas McNaughton
Modern-Day Historical Mapping of Rural Virginia and Maryland, by Eugene M. Scheel
A Re-discovered Plan Map of Henrico Virginia, 1613, by Douglas McNaughton

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BOOK REVIEW
Pirî Reis and His Charts. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 1999.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Until the Year 2000.
3. 1998 Ristow Prize Winners Announced.
4. Virginia in Maps (coming events at the Library of VA, April 1999).
5. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
6. Washington Map Society November 1998 Field Trip to New York City.
7. Ralph Ehrenberg Retires.
8. Notes from, and Travels with, the Editor.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 44 - Spring 1999

ARTICLES
Science, Giants and Gold: Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's Mapa Geográfico de America Meridional, by Ken Mitchell. This paper is the winner of the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
The National Palette: Painting and Map-Coloring in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic, by Lisa Davis-Allen. This paper received honorable mention in the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship. Color illustrations used as figures in this article are posted on-line.
The George Washington Map Collection in the Library of Congress, by Edward Redmond.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May 1999 - March 2000.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Into the Year 2000.
3. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
4. Notes from, and Travels with, the Editor.
5. Geography in Washington Between the Civil War and World War I.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 45 - Fall 1999

ARTICLES
Mapping Imperial Expansion: Colonial Cartography in North America and South Asia. by Lucy Chester. This paper received honorable mention in the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Mapping the New World: Nicolas Sanson's 'Amérique Septentrionale' and French Cartography in the Seventeenth Century. by Jennifer Turnham. This paper received honorable mention in the 1998 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
A Map Collector Reminisces. by Eric W. Wolf.

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BOOK REVIEW
Who's Who in the History of Cartography: The International Guide to the Subject (D9) (Review by Bert Johnson).

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 1999 - May 2000.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Into the Year 2000.
3. 2000 Ristow Prize Competition Announced.
4.
Changing Perceptions: Charting Alexandria Exhibition, Alexandria, Virginia.
5. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
6. Cartographic Notes by Tom Sander.
7.
18th ICHC Athens Meeting by Bert Johnson.
8.
The Texas Map Society - Impressive Meeting, Impressive Group by Bert Johnson.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 46 - Winter 1999-2000

ARTICLES
Mapping Myths: The Cartographic Boundaries between Science and Speculation on La Condamine's Amazon, 1743-44. by Neil Safier. This paper is the winner of the 1999 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Commercial Cartography: 1972-1998. by Barbara A. Fine
Sex, Lies, and Old Maps: Observations on Early Maps of Virginia. by Eugene M. Scheel
John Adlum -- Tanner, Soldier, Surveyor, Cartographer, Viticulturist. by John W. Docktor.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2000.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. Ristow Prize Competition - 1999 Winners Announced.
4. 2000 Ristow Prize Competition.
5. John Hébert - New Chief Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.
6. IMCoS Annual Symposium in Turkey. By John W. Docktor
7. Washington Map Society November 13-14, 1999 Field Trip to Colonial Williamsburg. By John Greene
8. Ca
rtographic Notes. By Tom Sander.
9. Map Site Seeing: key World Wide Web map sites.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 47 - Spring 2000

ARTICLES
Geographic Representations of the Tôkaidô from Edo to Meiji Japan. By Jilly Traganou, Ph. D. This paper received honorable mention in the 1999 Ristow Prize Competition for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship
What's New About the Vinland Map? By Douglas McNaughton
Acquisition of Cartographic Material from the Viewpoint of an Institutional Collector - The Library of Congress. By James Flatness.
The Feminine Landscape, or Gynocartography: Treating Women Like Dirt. By Dr. Darby Lewes.

CD-ROM REVIEW
The British Library Map Catalogue on CD-ROM (Review by John W. Docktor).

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - September 2000.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings, Into the Year 2001.
3. New Washington Map Society Membership Chair - Bert Johnson.
4. Ristow Prize Competition 2000.
5. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
6. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 48 - Fall 2000

ARTICLES
The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps in the Collections of the Library of Congress by John Hébert and Anthony Mullan.
The Relation of 16th Century Virginian Cartography to the Mapping of the Pacific. by Richard Casten
The Kanawha/New River on Mid Eighteenth Century Maps by Emerson Knapp
The 1477 Columbus Voyage to North America by Arne B. Molander

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BOOK REVIEWS
Cristóbal Colón, Originario de Ibiza y Criptojudío (Review by John Hébert)
Early Mapping of Southeast Asia (Review by Robert Highbarger)
Tours et Contours de la Terre... (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings , September 2000 - February 2001.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2001 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. SHD Coming to Washington D.C. October 2000
5. Research at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum - November 2000 Field Trip
6. Annual Society Dinner Meeting, May 2000 (Four Presentations: P.J. Mode - Map of the Landings Made in England and Ireland from William the Conquerer to Our Times; John Docktor - Map of York, England; Michael S. Hirsch - Alexis Hubert Jaillot map of North America; and Edward J. Redmond - The First Map of George Washington's River Farm).
7. Texas Map Society's Spring 2000 Meeting, by Bert Johnson
8. Joint Meeting of Phillips Society and California Map Society, by Steve Vogel
9. Sheikh Sultan, Emir of Sharjah, on the Name of the Gulf, by Bert Johnson
10. IMCoS London Weekend, June 2-4, 2000, by John Docktor
11. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander
12. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
13. Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 49 - Winter 2000-2001

ARTICLES
The Atlases of A. J. Johnson. by Ira S. Lourie
Survey and Resurvey of the Fairfax Line. by David Lee Ingram
Old Maps of Cuba. By Emilio Cueto
The Classical Atlas Project - Mapping the Greek and Roman World: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. By Steve Vogel.
The New Quads Ain't What They Used to Be. by Eugene M. Scheel
The Cartographic Community: Through a Glass, Oddly. (A Look at The Island of Lost Maps) by Hubert O. Johnson

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BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development. (Review by Margaret B. Pritchard)
The Piri Reis Map of 1513. (Review by Svat Soucek)
The Map Collector Library Series, Antique Map Reference CD-ROM 2000, Heritage Map Museum. (Review by John W. Docktor)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January- May 2001.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2001 Ristow Prize Competition.
4.
Extravaganza, Indeed: The October 2000 Garrett Lectures and Texas Map Society Meeting. By Alice Hudson and Bert Johnson
5.
The Stewart Museum Globe Symposium, October 19-22, 2000. By John W. Docktor
6. Map Site Seeing, key World Wide Web map sites.
7. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander (Includes a summary of the IMCoS Annual Symposium in Iceland, September 2000).

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 50 - Spring 2001

ARTICLES
Conservation from the Curator's and Collector's Point of View. By Patricia Molen van Ee
The Evolution of Geography and GIS: What It Means. A meeting summary by Steven Vogel
The Portolan at 50. By the Portolan Editors
The Depiction of Florida on the Early Conte Ottomano Freducci Map. By Douglas T. Peck
Moving Forward Towards A Backward Look at the City of Alexandria: The Alexandria Archaeology Museum. By Norman Z. Cherkis

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BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
The Greek Portolan Charts: 15th - 17th Centuries. (Review by Richard Pflederer)
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. (Review by Bert Johnson)
Descriptions of Slovenia on Military Maps of 1763-1787. (Review by Stephen Paczolt)
Records and History of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) CD-ROM. (Review by Paul Dyson and Stacy Hoppen)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - September 2001.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2001 Ristow Prize Competition.
4.
Principles of Collecting. By John Hyman
5. H-DC Discussion List
6. Cumming Map Society.
7. Map Site Seeing: key World Wide Web map sites.
8. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 51 - Fall 2001

ARTICLES
Group Portrait at Age 21: The Members of the WMS. By Bert Johnson
NIMA's Role in the Dayton Peace Accords. By Representatives of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. A meeting summary by Steven J.Vogel.
The Hebrew Holy Land Map of Avraham bar Ya'acov, Amsterdam, 1695. By Harold Brodsky. A meeting summary by Steven J. Vogel.
The Map Auction Business Today: Cartography from the Fiat Lux Library. By Dale Sorenson and Eric W. Wolf
Afryqah (Africa): The E-Book and the History. By Pierre Sales

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BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Maps of Africa to 1900. (Review by Richard L. Betz)
Maps of the California Trail. (Review by Charles A. Burroughs)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2001 - January 2002.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2002 Ristow Prize Competition.
4.
At the Edge of the World: Mapping Scotland Exhibition
5.
WMS Annual Business Meeting - May 17, 2001. by Steven J. Vogel
6. Heading West: Mapping the Territory. WMS Field Trip to NY City. By John W. Docktor
7.
19th Int'l Conference on the History of Cartography - Madrid July 2001. by Bert Johnson and John W. Docktor.
8. Map Site Seeing: key World Wide Web map sites.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 52 - Winter 2001-2002

ARTICLES
September 11, 2001 Aboard the Half Moon. By William T. (Chip) Reynolds.
Piri Reis's Book on Navigation (Kitab-i Bahriye) as a Geography Handbook: Ottoman Efforts to produce an Atlas during the Reign of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687),By Dimitris K. Loupis. This paper is the winner of the 2001 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
"From that Last Point, the Line is Less Exact." The Problem of Cartography Prior to the Louisiana Purchase. By Michael Kimaid. This paper received honorable mention in the 2001 Ristow Prize Competition for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Maps with a Message: Categorizing the Works of Heinrich Scherer. By John Greene.
Washington Map Society Field Trip to the National Geographic Society. By Steven Vogel.

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SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2002.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2001 Ristow Prize Winners Announced.
4. 2002 Ristow Prize Competition.
5. At the Edge of the World: Mapping Scotland Exhibition
6. President's Note - September 11.
7. How to Attend a Map Fair. By Steven Ellsworth.
8. Chicago Area Cartographic Events - October 2001. By John W. Docktor.
9. Fall 2001 Meeting of the Texas Map Society by Bert Johnson.
10. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
11. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 53 - Spring 2002

ARTICLES
A Case
Study of Transition from Mental Map to Web Based Mapping in Papua New Guinea for Cartographic Education By Tine Ningal. This paper received honorable mention in the 2001 Ristow Prize Competition for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.
Russian Traditional Cartography of the Seventeenth Century and the Importance of Semen Ul'yanovich Remezov and his Drawing Books of Siberia. By Alexey V. Postnikov
The "Diderot" Maps. By William J. Warren
Humphrey Cole and His Map of the Holy Land. By John W. Docktor
The Texas Adopt-A-Map Program. By Bert Johnson
The Miami International Map Fair From the Perspective of a "First-Timer". By David Hubbard

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The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
La Gran Linea. (Review by Walter Wilson)
Kitchener's Survey of Cyprus 1878-1883. (Review by Bert Johnson)
Reality as Representation. (Review by Lisa Davis-Allen)
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek. (Review by Arne Molander)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - September 2002.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2002 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. Pre 20
th Century Women in Cartography.
5. International Map Dealers Association Being Formed.
6. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members McIntire, Velilla and Warren
7.
Texas Map Society Spring 2002 Meeting. By Bert Johnson.
8. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
9. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 54 - Fall 2002

ARTICLES
The Traditional Cartography of Islamic Classical Societies. By Dr. Cyrus Ala'i
Caring for Maps on Paper. By Heather Egan Wanser (includes guide to Preservation and Conservation Resources)
The Cartographic Traveler. By Thomas F. Sander
Putting 'Little' Washington on the Map. By Eugene M. Scheel
The Shapes of Texas - The Cartographic Evolution of an Icon. By Walt Wilson
Private Collectors and Collections on the Virginia Tidewater Peninsula. By Pearce S. Grove
Maps and Friends in Petersburg and Richmond. A Meeting of the Cumming Map Society By James (Hal) Hardaway

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Maps of Medieval Thought - The Hereford Paradigm. and A Wheel of Memory - The Hereford Mappemundi. CD-ROM. (Combined Review by Evelyn Edson)
Seeing Through Maps. (Review by Eric W. Wolf)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2002 - January 2003.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2003 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. In Memory of Alice Theodora Merten Rechlin Perkins. By Barbara Adele Fine
5.
Putting Lancaster on the Map. By John W. Docktor
6. WMS Annual Business Meeting of May 16, 2002. Notes by Steve Vogel.
7.
20th International Conference on the History of Cartography 2003. By Bert Johnson
8. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members Blake, Bornholt and Lange.
9. Walter C. McCrone Dies at 86.
10. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
11. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 55 - Winter 2002-2003

ARTICLES
Finding the Overseer's House at George Washington's Union Farm. By Patrick L. O'Neill
Bringing the Past Forward: Historical Maps on the Internet. By David Rumsey
eBay - a Guide for Map Collectors By Bert Johnson
Truth and Beauty--The Real World of Maps [Maps on Silk]. By Lori Geissenhainer
Visualizing U.S. Geographies: The Statistical Atlas Breakthrough of 1870 and Today's Opportunities. By Donald C. Dahmann

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America (Review by Barbara B. McCorkle)
The Hereford Map (Review by Dr. Daniel K. Connolly)
Some Ideas about the Far South Before the Western European Age of Discovery. (Review by Norman Z. Cherkis)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2003.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2003 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. 2002 Ristow Prize Winners Announced.
5. Texas 2002 Cartographic History Spectacular. By Bert Johnson
6. Map Symposium on Colonial America. By Thomas F. Sander
7. 20th ICHC: The New England Conference Takes Shape. By Bert Johnson
8. IMCoS Annual Symposium in Amsterdam 2002. By Thomas F. Sander
9. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members Goodrich, Hadsel & Hudson
10. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
11. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 56 - Spring 2003

ARTICLES
The Island Book of Henricus Martellus. By Rushika February Hage [This paper received honorable mention in the 2002 Ristow Prize Competition for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.]
James Wilson and the Early American Globe Makers. By Dr. David Jaffee
The 1511 Peter Martyr Map Revisited. By Douglas T. Peck
Wellman Chamberlin, Cartographer. By Eugene M. Scheel
Maps at Mr. Jefferson's University. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. By Joel Kovarsky
WMS Harpers Ferry Field Trip to National Park Service Interpretive Design Center. By Steve Vogel

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEW
Antique Map Price Record CD-ROM (Review by John Greene)
Washington in Maps (Review by Alice C. Hudson)
Mapping the West (Review by Paula Rebert)
Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color (Review by William C. Wooldridge)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May-September 2003.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2003 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. Cumming Map Society Oct 2002 meeting in Davidson, NC by Jay Lester
5. IMCoS 22nd Annual Symposium - Cyprus by Bert Johnson
6. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members Furno, Nazarewicz, Raphaely
7. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.
8. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 57 - Fall 2003

ARTICLES
Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection. By Margaret Beck Pritchard
Map Powder Horns OR Powder Horn Maps. By Dan Trachtenberg
A New View of the World: John P. Snyder and the Space Oblique Mercator Projection. By John W. Hessler
ICHC 2003: An After Action Report. By Bert Johnson et al
Quantico - Expanding a U.S. Marine Corps Base. by Eugene M. Scheel
Croatia - Returning for the Maps. by Thomas F. Sander
Quivira - The Legend and the Wine. By Henry Wendt
Texas Map Postcards Revisited: Much more than Ephemera. By Dennis Reinhartz
Online Gazetteers. by Julie Sweetkind-Singer

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/MAP REVIEWS
Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem was Solved by Robin Wilson (Review by Dorothy Raphaely)
Les Plans de Paris by Jean Boutier (Review by Ed Dahl)
The A to Z of Antique Prints and Maps by Donald Cresswell and Christopher Lane (Review by John Docktor)
Mercator - The Man who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane (Review by Fred Hadsel)
Petermann's Planet: A Guide to German Handatlases and their Siblings by Jürgen Espenhorst (Review by Eric Wolf)
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy by Andro Linklater (Review by David Ingram)
History Map: John Wilkes Booth Escape Route by Kieran McAuliffe (Review by Earl McElfresh)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2003 - January 2004.
2. Exhibitions and Meetings.
3. 2004 Ristow Prize Competition.
4. Maps from Colonial Williamsburg at the DAR Museum
5. Important Maps Gifted to the Virginia Historical Society
6.
The Peak Gift of Map Stamps to the WMS by Paul Peak as told to Tom Sander
7. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members Kanter, Pritchard, Whitten
8. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites.

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 58 - Winter 2003-2004

ARTICLES
On the Invention of Photolithography as Applied to Map Making by Dr. Ian Mumford
Recognizing a New Genre: The Large-Scale, Local Map of the Mid-19th Century by Robert Craig
Finding and Charting the World's Time by Dr. Ian Bartky
Maps and TV's Antiques Roadshow by Dr. Don Cresswell
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by Prof. (Ret.) Paul McDermott
IMCoS 2003 in Cyprus by Hubert O. Johnson

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/MAP REVIEWS
The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland 1608-1908 by Edward Papenfuse and Joseph Coale (Reviewer: William A. Stanley)
The Mismapping of America by Seymour Schwartz (Reviewer: Richard Stephenson)
Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus by James Enterline (Reviewer: Arne Molander)
Four Maps:
Iran and Tehran by Gitashenasi Cartographic & Geographical Institute (Reviewed by a Washington Map Society member)
Map:
Lewis & Clark and the Louisiana Purchase by Earl McElfresh (Reviewer: Dr. Charles E. White)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January-May 2004
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. Ristow Prize Winners 2004
4. 2004 Ristow Prize Competition
5. A Gift of Maps to the Library of Virginia
6. WMS Anniversary Weekend May 20-22, 2004
7. Herb Spira Obituary
8. WMS/LC Nov. 1, 2003 Workshop on the History of Cartography
9. Washington Map Society Business Meeting - May 15, 2003
10. Spotlight on the Membership - WMS Members Betz, McCorkle, Papenfuse
11. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
12. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 59 - Spring 2004

ARTICLES
A Humboltian Science Framework for William Whewell's Maps of the Oceanic Tides by Ben Sheesley (This paper is the winner of the 2003 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.)
Maps & Genealogy: The Irish Map Project at the Library of Congress by Patrick Dempsey, Kathryn Engstrom, Eileen McConnell and Steve Vogel
Historical Maps of Afghanistan in the Collections of the Library of Congress by Cynthia Cook
Historical Maps as Evidence by Louis De Vorsey

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/MAP REVIEWS
Charting Louisiana: Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps (Reviewer: Dennis Reinhartz)
Tooley's Dictionary of Map Makers - Revised Edition: Volumes A-D, E-J, K-P (Reviewer: Eric Wolf)
Journal of the Croatian Cartographic Society - Volume 1 (Reviewer: Joel Morrison)
Two Books of
Maps of Cyprus [Maps of Cyprus from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and Sweet Land of Cyprus: The European Cartography of Cyprus (15th-19th Century) from the Sylvia Ioannou Collection](Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography (Reviewer Eric Wolf)
Atlas der österreichischen Gemütlichkeit, 1800-1918 (Reviewer: Eric Wolf)
Theater Map of the Gettysburg Campaign 1863. Map by Earl McElfresh (Reviewers: Ronald L. Paul and David R. Boyd)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May-September 2004
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. 2004 Ristow Prize Competition
4. WMS Anniversary Symposium and Celebration May 20-22, 2004
5.
IMCoS 2004 in Italy by Bert Johnson
6.
Spotlight on the FOUNDING Membership - Abbey, Fondersmith, Grim, Ristow, Wolter
7. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
8. Cartographic Notes. By Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 60 - Fall 2004

ARTICLES
Russian Navy Mapping Activities in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (Late 18th Century) by Mitia Frumin (This paper is the winner of Honorable Mention in the 2003 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.)
General Lee's Forgotten Mapmaker: Major Albert H. Campbell and the Department of Northern Virginia's Topographical Department by Richard W. Stephenson
Portolan Charts: The Key to Navigation in the Mediterranean and Beyond by Richard Pflederer
Experimental Cartography in the Palestine Campaign, 1915-1918 by Dov Gavish
"In der Vergulde Sonnewijser" (In the Golden Sundial): a Biography of Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) by Mark P. Kumler

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 1 - The Mid-Atlantic States) (Reviewer: John F. Baesch)
Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-79) (Reviewer: Wulf Bodenstein)
Late 19th Century Atlases of Massachusetts Counties on CD - 1876 F. W. Beers Atlas of Essex County CD-ROM (Reviewer: Clarence E. Kylander)
The Road to There: Mapmakers and their Stories (Reviewer: Marianne M. McKee)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2004-January 2005
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. 2005 Ristow Prize Competition
4. WMS Anniversary Symposium and Celebration May 20-22, 2004 by Thomas F. Sander
5. ICHC 2005 by Bert Johnson
6. "The Map Makers" - on the TV History Channel
7. BIMCC 6th Anniversary Meeting in Brussels by Thomas F. Sander
8. Maps at the National Library of China by Thomas F. Sander
9. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - McAuliffe, Pool, Severy
10. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
11. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 61 - Winter 2004-2005

ARTICLES
Record of an Ideal: Father Francesco Giuseppe Bressani's 1657 Map of New France by Louis Cardinal
A Tribute to David Woodward by Kenneth Nebenzahl
Normandy Maps and Models by Peter Hesse
Ortelius's Chesapeake by William C. Wooldridge
Discovery of the New World Through Old Maps by Wes Brown
Historic Maps of Russia, by Steve Boulay

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Early Mapping of the Pacific (Reviewer: Bill Warren)
Cartographica Extraordinaire (Reviewer: Joel Kovarsky)
Washington Images: Rare Maps and Prints from the Albert H. Small Collection (Rev: John Fondersmith)
Das neu entdeckte Schlarraffenland (Reviewer: Eric Wolf)
C&O Canal Map (Reviewer: Ralph Ehrenberg)
McElfresh Map of Normandy June 2004 (Reviewer: Peter Hesse)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2005
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. 2004 Ristow Prize - Announcement of Winner
4. 2005 Ristow Prize Competition
5.
IMCoS in Italy 2004 By Bert Johnson
6
. Two Dozen Suggestions for ICHC 2005 by Bert Johnson
7. A Copperplate Special at the Library of Virginia
8
. WMS Business Meeting of March 25, 2004 by Steve Vogel
9.
Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Covington, Enggass, and McKee
10. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
11. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 62 - Spring 2005

ARTICLES
Mapping Science and Myth on the Holy Mountain: Renaissance and Enlightenment Visions of Mount Athos by Veronica dellaDora (This paper is the winner of the 2004 Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.)
A Condensed Digital Travelers Guide: Web Resources for Map Collectors & Enthusiasts by Joel Kovarsky
Chinese Maps in the Library of Congress by Xiaocong Li
Rodney Shirley's Ten Key Points for Map Collectors
Early Detailed Map of Loudoun County Virginia by Eugene Scheel
J. H. Colton's Territories of New Mexico and Utah by Wesley A. Brown

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK/CD-ROM REVIEWS
Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers - Vol IV Q-Z(Reviewer: Eric Wolf)
Washington Through Two Centuries: History in Maps and Images (Reviewer: Dennis Gurtz)
Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond; 2000 Years of Exploring the East (Reviewer: Howard Lange)
AmericaDiscovered - A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration (Reviewer: Charles Burroughs)
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer (Rev: Joel Kovarsky)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April - September 2005
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. Letters to the Editor
4. 2005 Ristow Prize Competition
5.
Last Call for ICHC 2005 in Budapest by Bert Johnson
6
.Impressions of the Rocky Mountain Map Fair by Howard Lange
7.
IMCoS in Denver - September 2005 by Wes Brown
8
. Maps at Libraries in Brussels and Tervuren, Belgium by Thomas F. Sander
9.
Looking for Maps on Stone in Washington by John Fondersmith
10.
Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Golden, Hirsch, Poling
11. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
12. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 63 - Fall 2005

ARTICLES
Contesting Spatial Order: Merchant Geography in Late-Ming China, by Yongtao Du (This paper won Honorable Mention in the 2003 competition for the Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship.)
Early Mapping of the Pacific, by Thomas Suarez
An Annotated List of Reference Books for the Antiquarian Map Collector, by Joel Kovarsky
Missa de la Mapa Mundi - A Cartophonic Mystery, by Bert Johnson

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars (Reviewer: Waldo Tobler)
Maps, Myths and Men: The Story of the Vinland Map (Reviewer: Bill Warren)
Atlas of Palestine (Reviewer: Bill Stanley)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2005 - January 2006
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. Letters to the Editor
4. 2006 Ristow Prize Competition
5.
The Future of the Washington Map Society, by Bronson Percival
6.
WMS Business Meeting of March 17, 2005, by Steve Vogel
7.
The Voorhees Lecture Series, by Steve Vogel
8.
WMS Saturday Seminars Continue to Capture Interest, by Ray Wolf
9.
John Garver, a remembrance, by Bob Rhodes
10.
Eleanor Abbey - A Charter Member's Memories, by Bill Stanley
11. Spotlight on the Membership -
Kit Goodwin, Jay Lester, Eric Wolf
12. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
13. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 64 - Winter 2005-2006

ARTICLES
Cartographic First Fruits of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, by James V. Walker
The United States Post Office Department, Division of Topography and its Role in the Establishment of Rural Free Delivery, by Virginia Mason
The State Department's Office of the Geographer: History and Current Activities, by Leo Dillon

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Commerce of Cartography : Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England (Reviewer: Alice Hudson)
The Marvel of Maps - Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Reviewer: Robert Highbarger)
You are Here (Reviewer: Joel Kovarsky)
Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments (Reviewer: Gary Fitzpatrick)
Freedom's Tracks: A Map of the Underground Railway (Reviewers: David Boyd & Ron Paul)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2006
2. Exhibitions and Meetings
3. Letters to the Editor
4. Winners of 2005 Ristow Prize Competition Announced
5. 2006 Ristow Prize Competition
6. WMS Feb 17, 2005 Member Map Evening, by Steve Vogel
7. WMS May 21, 2005 Field trip to Antietam and Frederick by Bob Rhodes and Bill Stanley
8. ICHC Budapest, by Bert Johnson
9. IMCoS Denver, by John Docktor
10. Upper Canada Map Society, by Megan Webster
11. Vavra Addresses the Cumming Map Society in North Carolina, by Jay Lester
12. 12 Steps to Enjoying a Map Fair, by John Lyons
13. Spotlight on the Membership - Norm Cherkis, Don Cresswell, Paula Rebert
14. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
15. Cartographic Notes by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 65 - Spring 2006

ARTICLES
Alan Voorhees - A Dual Remembrance by Marianne McKee and Gary Fitzpatrick
The Decorated Hearts of Orance Fine: The 1531 Double Cordiform Map of the World, by Ruth E. Watson. 2005 Ristow Prize winning article
Unveiling Vietnam - The Maps of Alexandre de Rhodes by Harold E. Meinheit
Karl Kirchwey's "The Geographer's Line": Maps, Poetry, and Lewis & Clark by Adele Haft
Early Mapping of Fauquier County, Virginia by Eugene Scheel

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Map Book (Reviewer: Earl McElfresh)
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Reviewer: Richard Stephenson)
General Maps of Persia, 1477-1925 (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Five Centuries of Maps & Charts of Croatia (Reviewer: Thomas Sander)
Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier (Reviewer: Myron West)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May - September 2006
2. Death Notice - Walter W. Ristow
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Letters to the Editor
5. 2006 Ristow Prize Competition
6. WMS Field Trip to Washington DC's National Building Museum
7. A Visit to the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, by Thomas Sander
8. NOAA Heritage Week, by Bill Stanley
9. Map Site Seeing: Key World Wide Web map sites
10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander
11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Louis De Vorsey, Darline Hannabass, Bob Highbarger

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 66 - Fall 2006

ARTICLES
Remembering Walter Ristow
--Walter W. Ristow's Legacy 1908-2006 by Ralph E. Ehrenberg
--
Personal Reminiscences by Richard W. Stephenson
--
Remembrance of Walter W. Ristow by John A. Wolter
--List of Publications by Walter W. Ristow by Ralph E. Ehrenberg

Mythical Lands in Early Cartography: An Opportune Tool for Promotion of Exploration and Colonization by Douglas T. Peck
Marching with John W. Donn and Frederic W. Dorr: A Reminiscence of a Civil War Topographer by Albert E. Theberge
The Battlefield Survey of Chattanooga by Michael Buehler and Henry Taliaferro
An Introduction to Historical Carto-Philately by Alf Jordan
Map Dealer Catalogues by Michael Hirsch

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Mapmaker's Eye (Reviewer: Ralph Ehrenberg)
Journeys of the Imagination (Reviewer: Marianne McKee)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2006- January 2007
2. President's Welcome Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. 2007 Ristow Prize Competition
6. Map Conference in North Carolina November 2006, by Jay Lester
7. WMS Annual Dinner, May 2006, by William A. Stanley
8. IMCoS 2007 in Guatemala, by Jens Bornholt
9. ICHC 2007 in Berne, Switzerland, by Bert Johnson
10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander
11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Wulf Bodenstein, Marianne Hinckle, Nancy Orlando

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 67 - Winter 2006

ARTICLES
Mapping the Peace: American Cartographers and Statemakers at Versailles by Patrick McLaughlin
Royal Thai Maps of the Nineteenth Century by Eugene Scheel
Mapping Persia by Cyrus Alai
Rare Map Cataloging: A Case of Special Considerations by Joel Kovarsky and Maryke Barber
Klondike Road Maps: Selling Comfort and Convenience on the Route(s) to the Gold Fields by Ian Burnette

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A regular feature in
The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography (Reviewer: Evelyn Edson)
Cartographies of Travel and Navigation (Reviewer: John Cloud)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2007
2. President's Winter Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Letters to the Editor
6. 2006 Ristow Prize Winners Announced
7. 2007 Ristow Prize Competition
8. Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, by Rodney Shirley
9. WMS Annual Business Meeting, April 20, 2006, by Steven J. Vogel
10. Tenth Anniversary of
www.washmap.org by John W. Docktor
11. 22nd ICHC Takes Shape in Berne by Bert Johnson
12. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Kris Butler, Bert Johnson, Barry Ruderman
13. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 68 - Spring 2007

ARTICLES
"Give me the map there": King Lear and Cartographic Literacy in Early Modern England by Gavin Hollis. Winner 2006 Ristow Prize Competition
The Bucholtz - Ludwig Map of Virginia and its Successors, 1858-1868 by William Wooldridge
No Man's Island of Fairfax County, Virginia by Eugene Scheel

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Due to the illness of its contributor Eric Wolf, this regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is not appearing in this issue of The Portolan. A successor is sought to contribute this listing in the future.

MAP REVIEW:
The Maps of Company Commander-Europe 1944 & 1945 (Reviewer: Bob Rhodes)

BOOK REVIEWS:
Surveying the Shore - Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts 1600-1930 (Reviewer: Mike Buehler)
The Sovereign Map - Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History (Reviewer: J. B. Post)
A Survey of Palestine under the British Mandate, 1920-1948 (Reviewer: Ralph Ehrenberg)
Cartographies of Tsardom- The Land and its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia (Reviewer: Leonid Chekin)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, May- September 2007
2. President's Spring 2007 Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Fry-Jefferson Map Society Formed at Library of Virginia, by Luke Vavra
6. 2007 Ristow Prize Competition
7. DC Mayor Tony Williams Addresses the WMS, by Steven Vogel
8. Ptolemy & Copernicus, An exhibit of maps, by Joyce Gross
9. Final Call for ICHC in Berne, by Bert Johnson
10. Festival of Maps, Chicago, by Thomas F. Sander
11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Roger Baskes, Bill Doying, Barbara Keck
12. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 69 - Fall 2007

ARTICLES
REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE OF ERIC W. WOLF

Eric W. Wolf, 1922-2007 by Robert Highbarger
Eric W. Wolf's Professional Contributions by Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Navigating Tasman's 1642 Voyage of Exploration: Cartographic Instruments and Navigational Decisions by Avan Judd Stallard
MAPPING MARYLAND

Putting Maryland on the Map by Edward Papenfuse
The Huntingfield Collection of Maryland Maps by Russell Morrison

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, resumes in this issue under the direction of Joel Kovarsky

BOOK REVIEWS:
Was Australia Charted before 1606? (Reviewer: Henry Steward)
Cyprus 1542: The Great Map of the Island (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Charts of War (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2007 - January 2008
2. President's Fall 2007 Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Letters to the Editor
6. 2008 Ristow Prize Competition
7. Formatting Europe - Mapping a Continent, by Wulf Bodenstein
8. Festival of Maps, Chicago, by Kenneth Nebenzahl
9. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - William Anderson, Sanford Bederman, Curt & Marti Griggs
10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 70 - Winter 2007

ARTICLES
Latin Texts on Old Maps: Elementary Latin grammar and cartographic word lists, by Peter van der Krogt
Putting America on the Map: The Achievement of Medieval Mapmakers, by Evelyn Edson
Exploring the Early Americas - An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, by Arthur Dunkelman
ICHC 2007 in Berne, by Bert Johnson
IMCoS 2007 in Guatemala, by Barbara Keck
On the Waldseemüller Trail, by Thomas Sander

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is under the direction of Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The World Map: 1300-1492 (Reviewer: Tom Conley)
London: A Life in Maps (Reviewer: Peter Porrazzo)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January - May 2008
2. President's Winter 2007 Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Introducing Peter Porrazzo, by William A. Stanley
6. Ristow Prize Winners 2007 Announced
7. Letters to the Editor
8. Ristow Prize Competition 2008
9. WMS Annual Business Meeting - April 29, 2007, by Steven Vogel
10. WMS Annual Dinner - May 18, 2007, by Thomas Sander
11. Newspaper Maps: WMS Visits the Washington Post - October 27, 2007, by Howard Lange
12. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Evelyn Edson, Stephen Hanly, Nikolas Schiller
13. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 71 - Spring 2008

ARTICLES
Mapping for Peace: The American Inquiry and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919 by Wesley J. Reisser - Winner 2007 Ristow Prize Competition
Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England's Towns, 1849-1857 by Michael Buehler
The Obscure Amos Lay: An Early Nineteenth-Century American Cartographer by David Y. Allen
Carto-Cravatia (Map Ties) by Leonard A. Rothman

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BOOK REVIEWS:
Cartographia - Mapping Civilizations (Reviewer: William Browder)
Maps - Finding our Place in the World (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Leo Belgicus (Reviewer: Bruce van Roy)
Star Maps - History, Artistry and Cartography (Reviewer: Deborah Warner)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April - October 2008
2. President's Spring 2008 Letter, by William A. Stanley
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Letters to the Editor
6. Ristow Prize Competition 2008
7.
Baltimore Festival of Maps by Bert Johnson
8. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Lynda Petrie, Leonard Rothman, Martin Torodash
9. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 72 - Fall 2008

ARTICLES
A City in Transition: Mapping the Nation's Capital from Civil War to the Creation of a Comprehensive Plan, 1861 - 1902 by Richard Stephenson
Dating Old Maps with the Print Clock. by Blair Hedges
William Bollaert's 1842-1844 Texas Field Map by Patrick L. O'Neill

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is under the direction of Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Fra Mauro's World Map (Reviewer: Richard Betz)
The Naming of America (Reviewer: Peter Porrazzo)
Boston and Beyond (Reviewer: Ky Kylander)
Les cartes portolanes (Reviewer: Dick Pflederer)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2008 - January 2009
2. President's Fall 2008 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Ristow Prize Competition 2009
6. The Ristow Prize: Doing What It Was Meant To Do by Bert Johnson
7. WMS Annual Business Meeting - 17 April 2008 by Steve Vogel
8. WMS Field Trip to Charlottesville Virginia, by Joe Ruth
9. ICHC 2009 in Copenhagen by Bert Johnson
10. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - P. J. Mode, Heather Wanser, Megan Webster
11. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 73 - Winter 2008

ARTICLES
The Reverend Thomas Wakefield: Unsung Geographer and Mapmaker in Late 19th Century Kenya by Sanford H. Bederman
A Glimpse into Vietnam's Turbulent 19th Century by Harold E. Meinheit
Beautiful Symmetry: John Melish, Material Culture, and Map Interpretation by Martin Brückner
The Map That Bombed the Chinese Embassy by Walter E. Wilson
Navarrete and the Manufactured Columbus Landfall Problem: A Result of Ignoring Prime Cartographical Evidence by Douglas T. Peck

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mapping a Continent - A Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814 (Reviewer: Stephen Nagler)
Testarossa (Reviewer: William T. Reynolds)
America on the Map (Reviewer: Brock Covington)
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (Reviewer: Dan Trachtenberg)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2008 - May 2009
2. President's Winter 2008 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Ristow Prize 2008 Winners Announced.
6. Ristow Prize Competition 2009
7.
WMS Annual Dinner, May 2008 by Thomas Sander
8.
WMS Field Trip to the Baltimore Festival of Maps, May 2008 by Thomas Sander
9.
ICHC 23: Copenhagen Update by Bert Johnson
10.
How to Attend a Map Fair by Steven Ellsworth
11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Rand Burnette, William Ginsberg, and J. Andrew Hutchinson
12. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 74 - Spring 2009

ARTICLES
Mapping Identity: Defining Community in the Culhuacán Map of the Relaciones Geográficas by Diantha Steinhilper Winner 2008 Ristow Prize Competition
Cartography at The Margins: Johannes Schöner's Annotations in the 1482 Ulm Edition of Ptolemy's Geographia by John Hessler
The Antique Map Price Record: Twenty-Five Years of Tracking the Antiquarian Map Trade by Jeremy Pool

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Australia in Maps (Reviewer: Henry Steward)
Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West (Reviewer: Ralph Ehrenberg)
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (Reviewer: John Hessler)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April - September 2009
2. President's Spring 2009 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5.
Exploring Waldseemüller's World - An International Symposium
6. Letters to the Editor
7. Ristow Prize Competition 2009
8. Imre Demhardt Joins WMS Portolan Editorial Advisory Board
9.
Last Call for ICHC in Copenhagen by Bert Johnson
10.
WMS Field Trip to Winchester, VA, October 2008, by John Huennekens
11.
IMCoS Symposium in Oslo, Norway, September 2009, by William Ginsberg
12. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Caroline Batchelor, Nick Cavitt, Hal Hardaway
13. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 75 - Fall 2009

ARTICLES
Rethinking Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia by Stephen R. Potter
Jouhan de la Guilbaudière, his "Buccaneer's Atlas", and the Beginnings of French Trade along the Pacific Coast of South America ca. 1700 by Anthony Páez Mullan
Recommended Publications from the Personal Libraries of Washington Map Society Members by Bert Johnson
Cartographic properties and current situation of the oldest picture map in Çatalhöyük by Türkay Gökgöz

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Census of Portolan Charts & Atlases (Reviewer: Bob Karrow)
Maps of Malta from the Collection of Albert Ganado (Reviewer: Howard Lange)
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 (Volume 3 - Indiana, Lower Michigan & Ohio) (Reviewer: John Baesch)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2009 - February 2010
2. President's Fall 2009 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Ristow Prize Competition 2010
6. Reopening of Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, October 2009
7. WMS Member's Map Evening, March 2009, by Thomas F. Sander
8. WMS Business Meeting, April 2009, by Steve Vogel
9. WMS Annual Dinner, May 2009, by Thomas F. Sander
10. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - William Brandenburg, Martha Vestal Clarke, Tom Rohrer
11. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 76 - Winter 2009

ARTICLES
J. T. Lloyd's Map of Virginia by Luke Vavra
A Person of Worth and Integrity: John Worlidge, West Jersey Surveyor by William C. Wooldridge
Portolan Article Sparks Research on Possibly long-lost Vietnamese Map by Harold E. Meinheit
Bressani: "Io dedico la nuova Francia… I dedicate New France… Franc. Gius. Bressano… Bologna 11th January 1657." Analysis of a recently identified copy of Father Francesco Giuseppe Bressani's map including dedication, authorship, place and date of printing, notes by Louis Cardinal
ICHC 2009 in Copenhagen - An After Action Report by Bert Johnson
2009 Meeting of the NY/Washington/Boston Map Societies in New York City by Howard Lange
2009 IMCoS Meeting in Oslo by John Docktor
Rare Book School Holds First Map Course by Bert Johnson

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Imperial Map - Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (Reviewer: PJ Mode)
Courtiers and Cannibals, Angels and Amazons (Reviewer: Dorothy Raphaely)
Portolan Chart of Gabriel de Vallseca (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer)
Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570-1641) - Characteristics and Development of a sample of on verso map texts (Reviewer: Fredric Shauger)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2009 - May 2010
2. President's Winter 2009-2010 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Ristow Prize 2009 Winners Announced
4. Exhibitions and Meetings
5. Letters to the Editor
6. Map Site Seeing
7. Ristow Prize Competition 2010
8. Ten Key Points for Map Collectors, by Rodney Shirley
9. John Hyman's Principles of Collecting
10. Spotlight on the WMS Membership - Donald Dahmann, Charles Hall, Daniel Trachtenberg
11. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 77 – Spring 2010

ARTICLES
Picturing a Networked Nation: Abraham Bradley’s Landmark U.S. Postal Maps by Larry Caldwell and Michael Buehler
The Forgotten “First Map with the Name of AMERICA” (The 1520 Apianus World Map: History, Census and Comparison with Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map) by Don McGuirk
Postwar Cartography and the Struggle to Build (and Destroy) the World Picture: A Few Case Studies by Matthew D. Mingus Ristow Prize Winner 2009
Maps on Antique American Grandfather Clocks by Daniel Trachtenberg
A WMS Evening at the Folger Shakespeare Library by Hal Hardaway

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America its Name (Reviewer: Peter Porrazzo)
The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A 15th Century Maritime Manuscript (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer)
Mapping the Footsteps of the Apostle Paul (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 1: The Travels, 1850 Version (Reviewer: James Walker)
Miniature Maps of Malta (Reviewer: Howard Lange)
Juan Antonio González Cañaveras Planisferio o carta general de la Tierra, Madrid 1800 (Reviewer: Juan Ceva)
Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities (Reviewer: J.B. Post)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April – May 2010
2. President’s Spring 2010 Letter, by Howard Lange
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Ristow Prize Competition 2010
6. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Patricia Seed, Stefan Shrier, Henry Taliaferro
7. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 78 – Fall 2010

ARTICLES
From Contracts to Copperplates: The Making of the 1827 State Map of Virginia, the Corrections in 1859, and the Copperplate Printing Project of 2004 by Marianne McKee
The City Plan as Work of Art: Intended and Unintended Meanings in Pierre Charles L'Enfant's 1791 Manuscript Plan of Washington, D.C. by Scott Berg
Mapping and Robert E. Lee’s Gettysburg Campaign by Earl McElfresh

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Maps and Mapping of Norway, 1602-1855 (Reviewer: Barbara McCorkle)
Covens & Mortier. A Map Publishing House in Amsterdam 1685-1866 (Reviewer: Alice Hudson)
History of Cartography; Enlarged Second Edition (Bagrow) (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Kleiner Atlas Amerikanischer Überempfindlichkeiten (Reviewer: Imre Demhardt)
Catalogo de cartographia, .. la Sociedad Bilbaina (Reviewer: Juan Ceva)
Formatting Europe – Mapping a Continent (Reviewer: Thomas Sander)
Printed Maps of Greece, 1477-1800 (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2010 – April 2011
2. President’s Fall 2010 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz
3. Patricia Ann Vavra (1931 – 2010)
4. Exhibitions and Meetings
5. Map Site Seeing
6. Ristow Prize Competition 2011

7. WMS Business Meeting, March 2010, by Steve Vogel
8. WMS Members Map Evening, March 2010, by Thomas Sander
9. WMS at the AAG, April 2010, by Thomas Sander
10. WMS Annual Dinner, May 2010, by Thomas Sander

11. The Malta Map Society, by Rod Lyon and Thomas Sander
12. Library of Virginia Online Map Collections, by Cassandra Farrell
13. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – John F.C. Glenn, Fay Huidekoper-Cope, Ira S. Lourie
14. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 79 - Winter 2010

ARTICLES
New York City Map Maker John H. Eddy by David Y. Allen
Marie Tharp and Her Ocean Floor Maps by Gary W. North
Benjamin Banneker – An American Figure of Thought – Myths and Stories of the First African American Man of Science by William A. Stanley
ICHC 2011 in Moscow by Bert Johnson
Datum Cognita by Leigh Lockwood

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mapping in Michigan & The Great Lakes Region (Reviewer: Rick LaPrairie)
Historical Atlas of California (Reviewer: Eugene Scheel)
Euskal Herria Museoa / Kartografia Biduma – Collection Cartografica /Collection Cartographique – The Map Collection (Reviewer: Juan Ceva)
CD – Map World’s Antique Map Catalogue for Collectors (Reviewer: Leigh Lockwood)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2010 – May 2011
2. President’s Winter 2010 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz
3. Ristow Prize 2010 Winners Announced
4. Exhibitions and Meetings
5. Map Site Seeing
6. Letters to the Editor
7. Ristow Prize Competition 2011
8. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Barry Haack, Patricia Marshall, William (Chip) Reynolds
9. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 80 – Spring 2011

ARTICLES
From Terra Australis Incognita to Whales and Shipping Routes: Cartographic Representations of the South Pacific, 1760–1860 by Megan Barford
Searching for Early Maps: Use of Online Library Catalogs by Joel Kovarsky
Visualizing Early Washington DC by Dan Bailey and Lindsay Schroader
How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein
WMS/NYMS Field Trip to Map Exhibit in Princeton NJ by Nancy Goddin Miller and Michael Miller
ICHC 24 – Moscow Update by Bert Johnson

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Special Maps of Persia, 1477–1925 (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Sailing for the East – History and catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602–1799 (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer)
Eye of the Explorer – Views of the Northern Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853–54 (Reviewer: Alf Jordan)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April – October 2011
2. Vice President’s Spring 2011 Letter, by J. C. McElveen
3. Exhibitions and Meetings
4. Map Site Seeing
5. Letters to the Editor
6. Ristow Prize Competition 2011

7. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Judith Jones, Jacob (Jim) Rems, Myron West
8. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 81 – Fall 2011

ARTICLES
Expanding a Child’s World: a Selected Bibliography of Books Relating to Maps for Children and Young Readers by Marianne McKee
The Sea Monsters of Olaus Magnus: Classifying Wonder in the Natural World of Sixteenth Century Europe by Emma Thompson
George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps by Barnet Schecter
Elizabeth Taylor and the Map-maker by Eugene Scheel
Triple Texas Map Extravaganza – October 2010 by Bert Johnson
A Visit to the Museo Nacional de la Cartografía, Mexico D. F. by Leigh Lockwood
immodicus notitia = Too much information (A Primer on RSS Feeds) by Leigh Lockwood

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Journeys beyond the neatline: expanding the boundaries of cartography (Reviewer: Leah Thomas)
Imagining Mount Athos - Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Torn in Two – 150th Anniversary of the Civil War (Reviewer: Richard Stephenson)
Johann Schöner’s Globe of 1515 – Transcription and Study (Reviewer: John Grubbins)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2011 – April 2012
2. President’s Fall 2011 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz
3. WMS Annual Dinner – May 2011, by Thomas Sander
4. WMS Business Meeting – April 2011, by Harold E. Meinheit
5. Exhibitions and Meetings
6. Map Site Seeing
7. Ristow Prize Competition 2012
8. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Patrick Ahrens, Rolph Langlais, James Wolf
9. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 82 – Winter 2011

ARTICLES
Regio Patalis: Australia on the Map in 1531? (Early South Sea Voyages, or merely Cartographic Evolution?) by Robert J. King
Alexander von Humboldt: Scientific discoverer and cartographer of the Americas by Imre Josef Demhardt
The Black Book – Woodrow Wilson’s Maps for Peace by Wesley J. Reisser
Maps of the Peninsular War in the Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection at the Library of Congress by Ian M. Fowler
Eye of the Explorer – Illustrating Isaac Stevens’s Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853-1854 by Paul D. McDermott, Ronald E. Grim and Philip Mobley
ICHC 2011 in Moscow – An After Action Report by Bert Johnson

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS:
The Last Great Cartographic Myth: Mer de l’Ouest (Reviewer: Fred Shauger)
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Reviewer: Leigh Lockwood)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2011 – May 2012
2. President’s Winter 2011 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz
3. Ristow Prize 2011 Honorees Announced
4.
Facebook, QR Codes and the WMS by Richard Moore
5.
IMCoS Meets in Malta, by Rod Lyon
6. Exhibitions and Meetings
7. Map Site Seeing
8. Ristow Prize Competition 2012
9. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Fred Goldsmith, Arthur Holzheimer, Stanislas de Peuter
10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 83 – Spring 2012

ARTICLES
Utility and Aesthetic: The Function and Subjectivity of Two Fifteenth Century Portolan Charts, by Kevin E. Sheehan
The Russian (Van Verden) Chart of the Caspian Sea of 1720, by Cyrus Ala’i
Alvin J. Johnson and His Role in 19th Century Map Making in America, by Ira Lourie
The Solving of a Mystery: A silver and gold-gilt celestial globe cup from a catholic English monarch in Exile!, by Stefaan Missinne

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS
German Malta Maps (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Mapping Latin America – A Cartographic Reader (Reviewer: Anthony Paez Mullan)
A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 – Vol 4 (Reviewer: John Baesch)
Ortelius Atlas Maps – An Illustrated Guide – Second revised edition (Reviewer: Fred Shauger)
Malta Map Society Newsletter (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, April – September 2012
2. President’s Spring 2012 Letter, by Dennis Gurtz
3. The Newly Formed Williamsburg Map Circle, by Anne Malone
4. Integration of the Antique Map Price Record and OldMaps.com, by Curt Griggs

5. Mercator and Vienna! 30th IMCoS Symposium, by Stefaan Missinne
6. Exhibitions and Meetings
7. Map Site Seeing
8. Ristow Prize Competition 2012
9. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Janice Downey, Christophe Klein, Kenneth Nebenzahl
10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 84 – Fall 2012

ARTICLES
Captain Cupet and the King of Fire – Mapping and Minorities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, by Harold Meinheit
Hugh, Earl Percy Remakes his Map of New England, by Matthew Edney

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This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS
Maps in Books of Russia and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800 (Reviewer: Leonid Chekin)
Costa e arcipelago toscano nel Kitab i Bahriye di Piri Reis (Reviewer: Dick Pflederer)
Traveling from New Spain to Mexico: Mapping Practices of Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Reviewer: David Y. Allen)
Graphische Zeichen auf mittelalterlichen Portolankarten-Ursprunge, Produktion und Rezeption bis 1440 (Reviewer: Dick Pflederer)
Early American Cartographies (Reviewer: Rand Burnette)
Mapping Greece, 1420–1800: A History – Maps in the Margarita Samourkas Collection (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Challenged Territories – Cartographies of Greece and the Levant during the Ottoman Era (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)
Geography in America’s Schools, Libraries, and Homes (Reviewer: Julie McDougall)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, September 2012 – January 2013
2. President’s Fall 2012 Letter, by J.C. McElveen
3. WMS Annual Business Meeting 2012, by Hal Meinheit
4. WMS Annual Dinner 2012, by J.C. McElveen

5. WMS 2012 Field Trips to the Albert Small Collection, by J.C. McElveen
6. “Ushapia” Exhibit at the Osher Map Library, by John Fondersmith
7. History of the Miami International Map Fair, by Joseph Fitzgerald
8. Exhibitions and Meetings
9. Map Site Seeing
10. Ristow Prize Competition 2013
11. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Lauren Beck, Kemp Dolliver, Nick Kanas
12. Corrections to Portolan issue 83
13. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas F. Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 85 – Winter 2012

ARTICLES
Waldseemüller’s World Maps of 1507 and 1516: Sources and Development of his Cartographical Thought, by Chet Van Duzer
British School Atlases: Shaping Style and Map Content, by Julie McDougall
The Library of Virginia’s Civil War Map Collection, by Cassandra Britt Farrell
GPS 1.0 beta, AKA Britannia Depicta… (or, Travel Commentary in Strip Maps), by Leigh Lockwood
The United States Map as a National Symbol, by John Fondersmith
25th International Conference on the History of Cartography Helsinki, Finland, 30 June–5 July 2013, by Bert Johnson

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

BOOK REVIEWS
European Perceptions of Terra Australis (Reviewer: Henry J. Steward)
Alte Landkarten (Reviewer: Imre Josef Demhardt)
The Lost Empire of Atlantis (Reviewer: J. B. Post)
The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace (Reviewer: Matthew Mingus)
Oxford Companion to World Exploration (Reviewer: James L. Newman)
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Reviewer: P. J. Mode)
A Washington Sketchbook: Drawings by Robert L. Dickinson, 1917–1918 (Reviewer: Eugene Scheel)
The Mapping of Taiwan: Desired Economies, Coveted Geographies (Reviewer: Harold Meinheit)

SHORTER ITEMS
1. Washington Map Society Meetings, December 2012 – April 2013
2. President’s Winter 2012 Letter, by J.C. McElveen
3. Ristow Prize 2012 Winners Announced
4. Exhibitions and Meetings
5. Map Site Seeing

6. Ristow Prize Competition 2013
7.
IMCoS 2012 was in Vienna — and the WMS was There, by Thomas Sander
8. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Robert Berg, Wes Brown, George and Edith Piness
9. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander

 

CONTENTS OF ISSUE 86 – Spring 2013

ARTICLES

 

MapAnalyst and Geographic Information Systems: Keys to Unlocking New Paths of Research in the History of Cartography, by Thomas A. Weiss    

Missionary Cartography of the Tarahumara (Mexico) With Special Regard to the Map of Ivan Rattkay, by Mirela Slukan Altic

In Nietzsche's Shadow: Searching for Roman Cartographers in Southern France, by John Hessler

Why the new WMS website does not have to be like your dusty toolbox, by Leigh Lockwood

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Mapping Virginia, from the Age of Exploration to the Civil War (Reviewed by Henry Taliaferro)

Seeing the World Anew – The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps (Reviewed by Peter Porrazzo)

The Art of the Map: An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments (Reviewed by Bert Johnson)

London – A History in Maps (Reviewed by Naomi Miller)

The Johann Ruysch and Martin Waldseemüller World Maps – The Interplay and Merging of Early Sixteenth Century New World Cartographies (Reviewed by Peter Meurer)

Finding their Way at Sea. The story of the portolan charts, the cartographers who drew them and the mariners who sailed by them  (Reviewed by Bob Karrow)

Japoniæ insulæ. The mapping of Japan. A historical introduction and cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan before 1800 (Reviewed by Dick Pflederer)

Jews in America – From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage (Reviewed by Michael Hirsch)

 

SHORTER ITEMS

 

1.  Washington Map Society Meetings, April 2013 – September 2013

2.  President’s Spring 2013 Letter, by J.C. McElveen

3.  Passing of Grace Burroughs

4.  Exhibitions and Meetings

5.  Map Site Seeing

6.  Ristow Prize Competition 2013

7.  ICHC 25 – Helsinki Update, by Bert Johnson 

8.  Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Peter Kroehler, Karl Offen, George and Mary Ritzlin

9.  Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander