donations – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:41:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg donations – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Collection Donated to Leiden University Libraries https://www.maproomblog.com/2021/12/collection-donated-to-leiden-university-libraries/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:41:19 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1805675 More]]> Two private collectors, John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen, have donated their collection of some 17,000 maps and 2,300 atlases and travel guides, mostly focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, to Leiden University Libraries (linked page in Dutch).

]]> 1805675 Osher Formally Donates Map Collection to USM https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/06/osher-formally-donates-map-collection-to-usm/ Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:31:03 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785828 More]]> Harold Osher is formally donating his map collection to the University of Southern Maine, a gift with an estimated value of $100 million, along with a contribution to an endowment to support the collection (USM press release, Portland Press-Herald). Osher and his wife, Peggy (who died last month) donated “their initial collection” to the USM in 1989; the map library named after them opened five years later. The Oshers’ collection comprises more than 5,000 maps, the Osher Map Library comprises more than 60 collections and nearly half a million maps. I’m not entirely clear what’s being donated here: I gather the Osher has had access to the Oshers’ maps for some time, and this is a formal transfer of ownership; or perhaps these are additional maps being transferred from their private collection to the USM. Either way, this has some significance. [Tony Campbell]

Previously: Peggy Osher, 1929-2018.

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