Adirondacks – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 24 May 2017 17:53:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Adirondacks – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Exhibitions in the Northeast https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/05/exhibitions-in-the-northeast/ Wed, 24 May 2017 17:53:19 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=4427 More]]> A new exhibition at Harvard University’s Pusey Library, Manuscript Maps: Hand-Drawn Treasures of the Harvard Map Collection, “highlights the process of mapmaking by looking at maps drawn by hand.” Opened yesterday; runs until September 27.

Meanwhile, in Schenectady, New York, there’s another exhibition at Union College’s Kelly Adirondack Center: Parts But Little Known: Maps of the Adirondacks from 1556 runs until September 29.

]]> 4427 Old Logging Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/04/old-logging-maps/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:19:16 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1502 More]]> North Country Public Radio’s Adirondack Attic: “Jerry Pepper, librarian at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, shows Andy Flynn a collection of maps that detail logging operations by the Finch Pruyn paper company in the town of Newcomb. The maps were used from the 1920s to about 1950, the year of the last river drive carrying logs from the Adirondack Mountains down the Hudson River.” [Tony Campbell]

My county’s archives has a collection of old logging maps; I blogged about them in 2007.

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