New York Map Society Feature Articles
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This page offers links to feature articles written by members of the New York Map Society and invited guests. The page is “just getting started” and more features will be added as soon as possible.
David Y. Allen
Comparing Eighteenth-Century Maps of New York State Using Digital Imagery
David Y. Allen is retired Map Librarian at Stony Brook University, New York (SUNY) and currently the editor of Coordinates, the online journal of the Map and Geography Roundtable of the American Library Association. His feature article presents a detailed analysis of several maps depicting the British Province of New York published between the middle of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the American Revolution.
J. B. Post
J. B. Post is a former map librarian and former print & photograph curator currently retired and involved in local history activities in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. His major claims to fame are compiling An Atlas of Fantasy (Mirage Press, 1973 & Ballantine Books, 1979) and coining the term “cartifact.”
United States Map Copyright Litigation: 1789-1998
A short guide to court cases which involve copyright of maps.
Ruminations on the Borderlands of Cartography
Some thoughts on who gets into a Map Family Picnic
Philip Ernest Schoenberg, Ph. D.
Evolution of City Hall Park and Foley Square
New York Map Society member Dr. Philip Schoenberg is adjunct professor of American History at Borough of Manhattan Community College. On July 15th, Dr. Schoenberg escorted Society members on a walking tour of the City Hall area and explained its evolution from its Amerindian village origin.
Fredric Shauger
Jodocus Hondius' Map of the Straits of Magellan
New York Map Society member Fredric Shauger presents some background information on Hondius and a look at a 1613 copy of one of his maps.
Angouleme, The First European Name for New York
In 1524, Giovanni de Verrazano honored Francis I by naming a prominent New World harbor after an area closely associated with the French King.
Leslie Trager
Mysterious Mapmakers
New York Map Society member Leslie Trager raises some questions about Antartica and Greenland depicted by cartographers centuries before these areas were known to have been explored.
John Woram
Missing Maps
The 2006 court case—United States of America v. Edward Forbes Smiley III—has drawn attention to worldwide map thefts. The purpose of this feature is to offer the non-specialist viewer some insight into the magnitude of the problem. Although Smiley has admitted to some of these thefts, he has not been convicted of the thefts of all missing items listed in the accompanying tables.
Fakes, Facsimilies & Forgeries
A detailed look at one of the more notable fakes currently in circulation. For more details on the general subject, see Cartographic Fakes, Forgeries and Facsimiles on Tony Campbell's Map History website.
