- July 5, 2022
- Lynn Brown
School’s Out: Student Projects from the 2021-2022 Academic Year
The 2021-2022 school year has come to a close. Our K-12 Education Team, partner schools, educators, and students sure were busy!
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- July 2, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
A cartographic trip to Denmark
In celebration of Alan Leventhal’s appointment as US Ambassador to Denmark, we take a look at some Danish connections in our collections
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- June 30, 2022
- Elke Papelitzky
A Japanese Map of the World
In this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection, learn more about how Japanese mapmakers saw the world in late 18th and early 19th centuries
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- June 27, 2022
- Kyler Hoogendoorn-Ecker & Ian Spangler
An interview with Kyler Hoogendoorn-Ecker
Welcome to our new summer intern and Seevak Fellow!
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- June 22, 2022
- Ian Spangler
Growing our collections in the history of computer cartography
At the Leventhal Center, exciting donations have motivated a new collections interest
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- June 17, 2022
- Ian Spangler
All the maps, all the time: an interview with Bert Spaan
Digitized maps—especially georeferenced ones—can be tough to find, hard to access, and difficult to bring to life. With his Allmaps project, Bert Spaan is trying to change that.
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- June 3, 2022
- Rachel Sharer
LMEC Awarded Grant to Support Community History Exhibition
The Leventhal Center has been awarded a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant to support a 2023 urban atlas exhibition.
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- May 26, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Landscapes of visual repetition in “Bird’s Eye Cards”
A new map visualization invites you to look at patterns in the landscape as seen from above
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- May 18, 2022
- Anne-Sophie Pratte
A Qing Dynasty Imperial Route Map
Travel alongside the Qianlong Emperor in this interactive tour of a map nearly twenty feet long
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- April 26, 2022
- Megan Nally
Celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted
Today—April 26th, 2022—marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted. Join us in celebrating his legacy and contributions to landscapes across the country!
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