Studying the Bending Lines exhibition in New England Museums Now
A writeup about a study of our digital exhibition appears in the Spring 2021 edition of the New England Museum Association's journal
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- Apr 29, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Riding along the mail route map
Our map bot found some treasure buried at the post office
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- Apr 27, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Sizing up the map with Insizeor
Our new scale-comparison tool lets you compare big, small, and in between
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- Apr 22, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them—on Atlascope
Our Atlascope tool makes the perfect digital companion to a new book on Boston's oldest buildings from the City Archaeologist
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- Apr 16, 2021
- Belle Lipton
Get to Know Your Data: City of Boston Parks Department
We spoke with City of Boston analysts about creating and maintaining publicly engaging and socially responsible datasets
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- Apr 9, 2021
- LMEC Staff
Teaching with Maps in the Past
We use maps for teaching every day at LMEC, just like educators have been doing for centuries!
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- Apr 7, 2021
- Connie C. Chin
Peoples of the Pacific
In a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and a Covarrubias anthropological map, portrayals of ethnic diversity raise questions about images and stereotypes
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- Apr 6, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Unique Perspectives on Kyoto
The curator of the MacLean Collection examines graphic representations of urban Japan from the Tokugawa period
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- Apr 2, 2021
- Rachel Mead
April Showers Bring Map Flowers!
A selection of maps from Aprils past 💐
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- Mar 26, 2021
- Guy Prentice
A Civil War map goes on trial
An archaeologist at the Andersonville prison camp describes how a map from the LMEC collections helped solve a puzzle about history
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