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Archives: Previous Meetings of the New York Map Society

2010

DateSpeakerTitle
May 8th Matt Knutzen Maps at the New York Public Library:
New Collaborative Methods in (re)presenting Historical Geography
April 10th Connie Brown
Roger Panetta
Mining Maps
Panoramic Maps and Reading the Landscape
March 13th Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen Field Trip: Columbia University Library
February 13th John Hessler In the Footsteps of Caesar: Searching for the Physical, Epigraphical and Manuscript Remains of Roman Cartography
January 9th Field Trip: Hudson River Museum Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture

2009

November 14th Peter Dickson The Magellan Myth: Reflections on Columbus, Vespucci and the Waldseemüller Map of 1507
October 17th New York Public Library guided tour of the “Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009” exhibit
Evening dinner at Bridge Cafe
October 18th South Street Seaport Museum guided tour of the “New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World” exhibit
September 12th Field Trip: Museum of the City of New York
July 11th Third Annual Summertime Social
May 9th Field Trip: New-York Historical Society
April 4th Jim Sykes The Globe in Art
March 14th Miklos Pinther Maps on Stamps
February 21st Leslie Trager Hudson Bay, Prior to Hudson
January 10th Eugene Brenwasser Modern Map Repair and Preservation Techniques
Annual Elections

2008

December 13th Field Trip: Richard Arkway, Dealers in Antique Maps, Atlases & Globes
November 8th Dorothy Raphaely Coloring Maps
October 4th Nikolas Schiller Digital Scrapbook of Maps, Past, Present and Future
September 13th Barbare Mundy Mapping the New World for The Spanish Kings:
Indigenous Artists and the Creation of Colonial Cartography
July 12th Second Annual Summertime Social
May 10th Michael Buehler Strategies for Collecting Old Maps
April 12th Joop Varekamp Adriaen Block, the Discovery of Long Island Sound
and the New Netherlands Colony: What Drove the Course of History?
March 12th Mark Monmonier Mapping Hazards in America: Earthquakes, Coastal Storms, and Sea Level Rise
March 8th Michael O. Shannon Ireland in Maps: History Through Controversy
February 9th Ron Grim &
Vincent Virga
A Bird's Eye View of Southeastern New England & New York
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
January 12th Leslie Trager Mysterious Mapmakers: Exploring the Impossibly Accurate
16th-Century Maps of Antarctica and Greenland

2007

December 8th David Suter Maps in Symbolic Graphic Art: Notes from the Op-Ed pages
November 3rd John Hessler Deforming History: A Phenomenological and Computational Study
of the 1507 and 1516 World Maps of Martin Waldseemüller
October 13th Neil Good Early Sea Charts and The Norse Discovery of America:
New evidence in the Search for Vinland?
September 8th John Cloud A Geographic Bicentennial
August 11th Joseph Garver Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930
July14th First Annual Summertime Social
June 9th Connie Brown Field Trip to Beacon Institute: The Hudson and Its Watershed: The Making of a Map
May 12th Peter Dickson Is the Lenox Globe Older than the 1507 Waldseemüller Map?
April 14th Field Trip: Yale University Sterling Memorial Library
March 10th Kim Martineau United States of America v.
Edward Forbes Smiley III
February 10th Alice Hudson From Waterside to Landside—Early American Coastal Charts
and their Contribution to Landside Information
January 13th Henry Serotin American Mapping of the Soviet Union, 1917-1960
Annual Elections

2006

December 9th Seymour Schwartz Putting “America” on the Map
November 15th Alice Hudson Early Maps of Nieuw Amsterdam and Environs: Keys to our Genealogy and Local History
October 18th Connie Brown The Art of Mapping
October 14th Field Trip: New-York Historical Society
September 9th Charlie Ridgeway Asteroid Occultation Maps
July 15th Philip E. Schoenberg Walking Tour: The City Hall Area from Indian Village to Skyscraper
June 10th Field Trip: Graham Arader Gallery
May 13th John Woram The Virtual Map Collector
April 8th Wendy Brawer Greenmap.org. Video presentation on Greenmap.org