Utah – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:25:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Utah – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Utah Drawn https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/01/utah-drawn/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 01:25:21 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3778 More]]>
James H. Young, “Map of the United States of America,” in Samuel Augustus Mitchell, A New Universal Atlas (Philadelphia, 1850). Note the presence of Deseret on the map.

Another map exhibition I neglected to mention yesterday: Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps runs from 27 January to late summer 2017 at the Utah Capitol Building in Salt Lake City; it features “forty rare historical maps depicting the region that became the state of Utah from its earliest imaginings by European cartographers to Utah’s modern state’s boundaries.” [Tony Campbell]

]]> 3778 Original Salt Lake Plat Map Found https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/04/original-salt-lake-plat-map-found/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:18:16 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1462 More]]> “A New York dealer in antique maps and rare books claims to have found the first map of Salt Lake City,” writes Trent Toone of the Deseret News. “Paul Cohen, of Cohen and Taliaferro, recently obtained the original sheepskin plat map of the ‘Great City of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake’ and plans to have it on display at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which runs April 7-10.” The 21½×11¼-inch sheepskin map was produced during an 1847 survey. [WMS]

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