NYPL – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:15:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg NYPL – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Antietam Battlefield Map Shows Burial Locations https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/06/antietam-battlefield-map-shows-burial-locations/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:15:13 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1788906 More]]> Map of the Battlefield of Antietam (1864)
S. G. Elliott, “Map of the Battlefield of Antietam,” 1864. Map, 87 × 66 cm. New York Public Library.

A map of the battlefield of Antietam held by the New York Public Library that shows the location of graves of soldiers killed in the 1862 U.S. Civil War battle is the subject of a piece in today’s Washington Post.

Civil War historians are hailing it as an important new way to visualize the toll of the huge battle outside Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862.

“Every one of us who’s looked at this absolutely flips out,” said Garry Adelman, chief historian for the Washington-based American Battlefield Trust, which works to preserve historic battlefields. “This will reverberate for decades.”

The map is the only one of its kind known to exist. It was digitized by the New York Public Library, which owns it, and was spotted online by local historians a few weeks ago.

The map doesn’t just mark graveyards, it notes the burial locations of specific regiments and brigades—and in 45 cases, individual soldiers.

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AM New York on the NYPL Map Division https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/02/am-new-york-on-the-nypl-map-division/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:40:17 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1787140 Meanwhile, AM New York takes a look at the holdings of the New York Public Library’s Map Division.

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The Hunt-Lenox Globe https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/the-hunt-lenox-globe/ Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:20:33 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=640 More]]> hunt-lenox

The Hunt-Lenox Globe, a five-inch engraved copper globe dating from the early 1500s, is one of the earliest surviving globes, one of the earliest depictions of the New World and one of only two places where the phrase hic sunt dracones (“here be dragons”) can be found. It’s held by the New York Public Library, who are justly proud of it. They’ve received a grant to produce a 3D scan of the globe; once that’s finished, the 3D model will be available online. In the meantime, here are some other images of the Hunt-Lenox Globe from the NYPL. [via]

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NYPL Offers High-Quality Downloads of 180,000 Public-Domain Documents https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/nypl-offers-high-quality-downloads-of-180000-public-domain-documents/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 22:37:53 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=141 More]]> Yesterday the New York Public Library made available high-quality downloads of some 180,000 public-domain photographs, postcards, maps and other items from its digital collection—of which more than 21,000 are maps, based on my quick search. I can see spending an awful lot of time poking around in there, can’t you?

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