Hudson's Legacy
No, I'm not referring to Henry Hudson and his quadricentennial of "discovering" Manhattan and the river that's named after him. I'm speaking of Alice Hudson, Chief of the Lionel Pincus and Princess...
View ArticleMapping New York's Shoreline: The Storied River
Staff of the New York Public Library recently hand picked a set of nearly 500 images, collected from across our Digital Gallery, composing them as a curated set of images at the Commons on Flickr. They...
View ArticleCharting the Future I
Over the years, as we push more and more of our maps onto the web, such as Pieter Goos'Zee-Atlas, 1672, from which the below image was taken, we ask… ...what do we do with all this stuff? ...how do we...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving from The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division! Come see Willem Janszoon Blaeu's Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova in person at the fabulous Mapping New York's Shoreline 1609-2009...
View ArticleDrawing on the Past: Enlivening the Study of Historical Geography at...
On behalf of The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, the NYPL’s Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship and our partners EntropyFree LLC, I am proud to announce the launch of...
View ArticleTravel in Andalusia, Spain
The secret to a successful trip abroad may simply be to know yourself, what you are looking for, and where to find it. For the traveler looking for art and history, untouched mountain trails and sandy...
View ArticleMapping the World: A Review
One of the books recently received at the Map Division is Mapping the world: Stories of Geography by Caroline & Martine Laffon. Even in a pile of other impressive acquisitions, the book is hard to...
View ArticleYou are here: 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in 1857
I am at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. According to plate 78 of my map atlas—Williams Perris’s 1857 “Maps of the City of New York”—the massive (2) block long stone structure at the...
View ArticleDesigning the City of New York: The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811
New York City’s wealth of good design is well known. Its streets are home to a plethora of artisans, graphic designers, fashion designers, architects, etc. who spend their days focused on creating...
View ArticleHandmade Crafternoon: Make Your Own Map Day
On Saturday, October 23rd, please join us for an afternoon of free DIY cartography at the Library. Special guests Matt Knutzen (the Library's own geospatial librarian) and map artist Connie Brown of...
View ArticleSurvey and the City: An Imaginary Conversation With E.L. Viele
Egbert Ludovicus Viele (Vee-lee) was born June 17, 1825 in Waterford, New York. He was a member of Congress, U.S. Civil War Union Army officer and was commissioner of New York City parks from 1883 to...
View ArticleElements of Cartography
The title of this post comes from an important textbook that every formally trained student of cartography will recognize. Arthur Robinson (1915-2004), a towering figure in the world of cartography and...
View ArticleRadioactive Artist Lauren Redniss Talks of Love, Science, and Finding...
When artist and writer Lauren Redniss is asked why she created her new graphic biography Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, her reply is as striking and powerful as her...
View ArticleStart Traveling with the Help From NYPL’s Periodical Collections!
Sick of NYC’s cold weather? Got the traveling bug in you? Why not stop by the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to check out our latest travel magazines for the newest tips, trips, and activities...
View ArticleAll Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
Users are generating that reality every day at The New York Public Library through two landmark crowdsourcing endeavors, What’s on the Menu? and Map Rectifier. The former enlists the public in the...
View ArticleIslam in Europe: A Resource Guide at NYPL
According to the BBC News, "Islam is widely considered Europe's fastest growing religion, with immigration and above average birth rates leading to a rapid increase in the Muslim population." There are...
View ArticleUnbinding the Atlas: Working with Digital Maps
NYPL has now scanned nearly all of its public domain New York City atlases (a collection of now more than 10,000 maps, the wonderfully graphical title page at left is from a recently scanned Sanborn...
View ArticleGilded Love: Stokes and Sargent
The last time I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, being classy, I literally stopped in my tracks when I saw this painting:It's called Mr. and Mrs. I.N. Phelps Stokes and it was painted by John...
View ArticleWiki Gangs of New York: Editathon Recap
It was time to represent New York City and the Wikipedians showed up in force to do so! Wiki Gangs of New York was a Wikipedia editathon which took place at the Stephen A Schwarzman building on April...
View ArticleThe New York City Historical GIS Project
In 2010, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded The New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division a three-year grant for its New York City Historical...
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