MAPPING NEW WORLDS IN CANADAY LIBRARY

Detail of "Africa Lybia Morenlandt mit allen Königreichen so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden." From Sebastian Münster's edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia, c. 1544.

Early European cartography is the subject of the newest Bryn Mawr Library exhibition, which opens Thursday, January 27. Mapping New Worlds: The Cartography of European Exploration and Colonization, 1450-1750 looks at how maps of Asia, Africa and the Americas documented both the progress of European knowledge of geography and Europe's increasing economic, political and cultural dominance over the world.

To open the exhibition, Assistant Professor of History Ignacio Gallup-Diaz will give a talk titled Cartographers of Imagined Empires: Drake, Raleigh and the Buccaneers on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in Carpenter Library 21. A reception and the formal opening of the exhibition will follow the lecture in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library. Both the lecture and the exhibition are free and open to the public.

The curatorial team responsible for the exhibition included Jennifer Barr '07, an East-Asian studies major who began working on the exhibition last summer as part of her undergraduate internship in Special Collections, sponsored by the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library. The other curators are Christa Williford, the Council on Library and Information Resources Post-Doctoral Fellow in Scholarly and Information Resources, and Eric Pumroy, head of Special Collections.

The exhibition will run from Jan. 27 to May 31. The hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information, please contact the Special Collections Department, Canaday Library, 610-526-6576 or e-mail Special Collections at speccoll@brynmawr.edu.

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