Antique maps and prints events in October and November

Sept 25 – Mar 26. National Gallery of Art. Exhibition: Audubon’s Dream Realized: Selections from “The Birds of America”. Includes 47 prints from the double elephant folio edition.

Oct 20 Chicago Map Society. Meeting at the Newberry Library at 7:30 pm. W. Raymond Wood (University of Missouri) will discuss Across the Wide Mississippi: Maps of the Indian Country Before Lewis and Clark.

Oct 20 Washington Map Society. Meeting at 7:00 pm in Geography & Map Division of Library of Congress. Capt A. E. “Skip” Theberge (NOAA, ret, Technical Information Specialist – NOAA Library) will discuss Mapping the Civil War – U. S. Coast Survey.

Oct 26 Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon, North Carolina. Lecture: Making Sense of Historical Prints, Michael McCue. 1:15 pm.

Nov 9 At the New York Public Libary. Map Division Chief Alice Hudson presents an illustrated lecture Treasured Maps: Celebrating The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at 6:00 pm. An exhibition of the same name is running at the Library until April 9, 2006.

Nov 10 Chicago Map Society. Meeting at the Newberry Library at 5:30 pm. Ralph Ehrenberg will discuss Mapping the West with Lewis and Clark.

Nov 17 Washington Map Society. A field trip to the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington DC. Meet in Explorers Hall at 7:00 pm. Program includes a tour of the facility followed by a brief review of the life and work of the late Dr. John Garver, Jr., former Chief Cartographer, NGS (by Bob Rhodes) and the introduction of the new NGS publication Mapping the World: an illustrated History of Cartography, by Ralph Ehrenberg (introduction by Allen Carroll).

Nov 18 – June 4 Springfield Museums. Exhibition: Currier and Ives, An American Panorama.
Features approximately 175 prints, from the former collection of Lenore and Sid Alpert.