Library of Congress Publishes New Book, “Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps”
Designed to educate, amuse, or advertise, pictorial maps were a clever and colorful component of print culture in the mid-20th century, often overlooked in studies of cartography. A new book published by the Library of Congress in association with the University of Chicago Press, “Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps,” by Stephen J.…
Paulette Marie Hasier Named LOC Chief of Geography & Map Division
Hasier is the ninth person and first woman to be named chief of the division Hasier. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. Paulette Marie Hasier has been appointed Chief of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. Hasier has nearly 20 years of library and geospatial information program management experience, most recently as…
AAG Honors its First Archivist, the Library of Congress’ Ralph Ehrenberg
AAG Executive Director Doug Richardson and Chief of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Ralph Ehrenberg The AAG honored Ralph Ehrenberg, Chief of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, during his retirement from the Library of Congress on October 13, 2016. The AAG's Executive Director Doug Richardson presented him with a certificate…
Creating a Snapshot of American Folklife: American Folklife Center Seeks Photos of Folk Traditions
The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress would like to see how everyday people participate in folk traditions. The AFC invites you to share photos of your activities for the "My Tradition" campaign as part of the Center’s year-long celebration of its 40th anniversary. Photos received from across the country will create a “collective snapshot of folklife in…
AAG Archivist Geoffrey Martin Provides Rare Glimpses into the History of Geography
A near-capacity crowd gathered on January 21, 2016, in the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress in Washington, , to hear a talk by the doyen of the history of geography, Dr. Geoffrey J. Martin, Professor Emeritus at Southern Connecticut State University and the official archivist of the American Association of Geographers…
Leading Geography Historian and AAG Archivist Geoffrey Martin To Speak at Library of Congress
Dr. Geoffrey Martin, a prominent historian of American geography, will discuss “On the History of the Book — American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science” at 7 on Thursday, January 21, 2016, at the Library of Congress. This special event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on Martin’s most recent major work, and will include a…
Library of Congress To Offer 3-D Imaging Junior Fellows Opportunity
Reconstructing Antiquity: Kislak Pre-Columbian Archaeological Object Three-Dimensional Imaging Project Summer, 2016 The Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress holds a large and important collection of ancient Olmec and Maya objects dating from 1200 BC to 900 AD. The selected fellow, after being trained in…