"Mapping the Republic" Exhibition at UNH until 4 December 2009
The Osher Map Library's 2003-2004 exhibition, Mapping the Republic, has been recreated in facsimile and is on display at the University of New Hampshire Museum. The UNH Museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. during the semester. For more information visit the museum website.
In addition, the UNH Museum has made a local connection with a display of surveying equipment and maps from various eras. The compass belonging to the university’s benefactor Ben Thompson is on display, together with a map of Thompson’s 253 acre farm from 1891—two years before the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts moved from Hanover to Durham.
A computer set up in the exhibit will allow visitors to view UNH’s own digital map collection, which includes topographical maps of New England and New York from 1890 to the 1950s; the first atlas of New Hampshire's geology, from 1878; and a town atlas of New Hampshire published in 1892.
