Dr. Jen Manion’s book recovers the lives of people assigned female who lived as men and married women in the 18th and 19th centuries in the U.S. and U.K.
Read the Lewiston Sun Journal’s article featuring the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education’s textile mill exhibition, “Industry, Wealth, and Labor: Mapping New England’s Textile Industry”.… Read More
Why did John Cullum make this stunning map of the city of Portland, Maine, in 1836? Listen to the Osher Map Library’s latest podcast with OML Faculty Scholar, Dr. Matthew Edney and Executive Director Dr. Libby Bischof discussing John Cullum’s 1836 Map of Portland, Maine.… Read More
The Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education project — “Maine’s Bird’s Eye Views, 1870-1905” — has gathered 80 aerial renderings of Maine communities published during the era. Each has been digitized and made available to the public online.
Some of the fleeting Maine images of COVID-19 — of light-up marquees, lawn signs and storefront warnings — are being collected in an online … Read More