The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
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Our slide set series includes 36 titles, each consisting of six images with short descriptions and commentaries. Web versions of the print editions are now available. A small selection of titles are available only as virtual sets.
Print editions consist of six slides accompanied by a small booklet with printed commentary, and can be purchased through the Newberry Library Bookstore (312-255-3520). In 2006 we began creating web versions of some of our most popular or out of stock/out of print titles. As of 13 April 2006 we no longer offer special orders on out-of-print titles.
The first 5 printed sets feature a selection of maps from important printed atlases of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Numbers 6-19 are topical sets selected and commentated by participants in the Center’s Transatlantic Encounters program for college and university faculty, which ended in 1989. Numbers 20-27 were produced in 1989 as a part of the Cartography and History summer institute program funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The final seven sets were produced by participants in “Popular Cartography and Society,” a 2001 summer institute supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Printed Sets
- Ptolemy, Cosmographia (Ulm, 1482). Examples from the Library’s exceptionally well-colored copy of Ptolemy’s Geography, the great classical text rediscovered in Renaissance Europe.
OUT OF PRINT. View Web version
- Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp, 1584). This set offers examples from what is sometimes called the first modern atlas; it includes the exceptionally interesting map of America.
Print edition $12.00 View Web version
- Saxton, Atlas of England and Wales (1579). Includes the map of England and five county maps; interesting not only for its mapping techniques but also as testimony of new national feeling.
Print edition: $12.00 View Web version
- Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cologne, 1572-1617). The equivalent for city-plans of Ortelius’s atlas for maps; this set includes examples from the whole of Europe.
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- Mercator, Atlas (Amsterdam, 1630). Examples from a late edition of the Atlas of Gerard Mercator (1512-1594), known both for his maps and for his projection, in use for centuries.
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- Early Modern Ship-types 1450-1650, comentary by Roger Smith. Details from early modern European maps to show the development of ship-types from the galley to the West Indiaman.
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- Sixteenth-century Images of North America: The Woodcuts of Andre Thevet, commentary by Roger Schlesinger. Plates from Thevet’s Singularitez and Cosmographie, offering images of sixteenth-century Canada.
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- Cartographic Images of the World on the Eve of the Discoveries, commentary by Gerald Danzer. Examples of mostly fifteenth-century European maps showing how the world was visualized before the Discoveries.
OUT OF PRINT; The six slides may be purchased for $10, while supplies last, but please note that they will not be accompanied by printed text. Slides are not sold individually. View Web version
- The New World in Maps: The First Hundred Years, commentary by John Day. Sets out some leading stages in the European perception of the world after 1492, ending with the Wright-Molyneaux map of 1599.
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- Defoe's World Mapped: English Horizons in 1720, commentary by J. Kenneth Van Dover. A study in the growth of carographic ideas in early eighteenth-century England, using the work of Defoe and Moll.
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- France and Brazil in the First Century of Contact: The Lure of Brazilwood, commentary by Gayle Brunelle. Details from printed and manuscript maps, 1519-1613, showing the importance of logwood.
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- Fortified Towns of New France, commentary by Daniel Scalberg. Plates from the Library’s early eighteenth-century “Cartes Marines,” to show the development of Quebec, Montreal and Louisbourg.
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- The Image of the Indians in Early French Atalases and Travel Accounts, commentary by Mathé Allain. Details chosen from French work (1542-1640) to illustrate the lifestyles of the Indians.
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- Theatres of Cruelty: Wars of Religion, Violence and the New World, commentary by Tom Conley. Plates, mostly from Thevet and de Bry, relating New World cruelties to the origins in the Old World.
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- Missionaries in Sixteenth-century New Spain, commentary by Jerry Williams. Plates chosen to illuminate the nature of the religious contact between Christian missionaries and the natives of Meso-America.
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- John White’s America as Represented in the Engravings of Theodor de Bry, commentary by Charlotte Reiter. Plates from de Bry’s India Occidentalis, chosen to show the lives of the Virginia Indians.
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- The Image of Strangers: Indian Impressions of Europeans in Their Own Media, commentary by Robert Garfield. Indian impressions of whites, with their “guns and swords, hats and pants, tools and books.”
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- European Explorers’ Images of North American Indian Cultivation, commentary by James P. Krokar. Plates mostly from Champlain and de Bry to show the crops and cultivation methods of the North Americans.
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- Renaissance Survey Techniques and the Mapping of Raleigh’s Virginia, commentary by Michael G. Moran. Plates showing seventeenth-century English survey instruments and techniques, and their operations.
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- Nineteenth-century Images of the World for American School Children commentary by Jeffrey C. Patton. A cross-section of cartographic views that colored the image of the world for millions of nineteenth-century American school children.
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- Cartography of the Mexico-United States Frontier, commentary by Antonio Rios-Bustamante. A selection of maps illustrating the contrasting persepctives Mexicans and Anglo-Americans had of their common frontier region during the mid-1800s.
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- Map-Making Misconceptions and the Quest for a Water Route to Asia through the Great Lakes, commentary by Jack H. Haymond. Six representative printed maps that portrayed what sixteenth- to eighteenth-century explorers believed to be feasible water routes from the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes to the Pacific.
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- Representing the Republic: Cartographic Discourse in the U.S.A. 1865-1900, commentary by John Rennie Short. Plates illustrating the explosion of cartographic activity and changing social landscape of the U.S. after the Civil War.
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- The John Smith Map of Virginia: Derivations & Derivatives, commentary by Laurie Glover. Plates exploring the myths and realities of John Smith and his maps of the New World.
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- Fact and Legend in the Catalan Atlas of 1373, commentary by Doris Dwyer. A look at this marvel of medieval mapmaking and the diversity of traditions represented in the atlas.
Print edition: $12.00 View Web version (text only)
- El Golfo de Mexico: Sixteenth & Eighteenth Century Views of the America's Sea, commentary by Margaret Villanueva. Six manuscript maps showing the changing views of the U.S. and Mexican borders and their geography, focusing on the inclusionary nature of “national” borders.
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- The Ottoman Presence in Southeastern Europe, 16th-19th Centuries: A View in Maps, commentary by James P. Krokar. European views of the Turkish “threat.”
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- Romantic and Modernist Images on Twentieth Century Iowa Official State Highway Maps, commentary by Daniel Block.
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- Gregorio Dati's Sfera and Geographical Education in Fifteenth-Century Florence, commentary by Raymond Clemens.
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- Abstracting Africa: Thematic Mapping and British Imperialism, 1870 - 1930, commentary by Jon Hegglund.
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- Hiding and Highlighting Power in Eighteenth-Century North American Maps, commentary by Andrea Foroughi.
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- Map Promotion in Early Modern Europe, commentary by Christine Petto.
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- Going Places?: Gender and Map Use on 20th Century Road Maps, commentary by Christina Dando.
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- Mapping Chicago - Making Chicago, commentary by Robert Churchill.
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Virtual Sets