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Ukraine under Western Eyes: European Maps of Ukraine from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
April 2008–May 2008

The exhibition featured approximately thirty Western maps of Ukraine from the Renaissance to the 20th century, excerpted from the Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection. Donated to the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) in 2005, the collection now constitutes the largest single collection of Ukrainian maps in North America. Over many decades, Bohdan Krawciw (1904-1975), a prominent Ukrainian-American journalist, poet, and scholar active in the Ukrainian diaspora community in Western Europe and North America, traced the physical and aesthetic depiction of Ukraine across its changing borders, as a means of self-recognition and as a cultural and political history of the contested borderland nation/state and its peoples. Of special interest in the exhibit are the early and modern maps of Ukraine and Ukrainians in European languages, and the crossroads of four empires: Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet.

Mapping the White Mountains
April 2006–July 2006

This exhibition featured the early mapping of New Hampshire's majestic mountains from 1677–1988. The exhibit included John Foster's map of New England in 1677, Joseph Blanchard and Samuel Langdon's 1761 map of New Hampshire, Samuel Holland's 1784 map, a rare Carrigain edition, AMC maps, USGS maps, and Bradford Washburn's 1988 map of Mount Washington.

Mapping California as an Island
December 2005–March 2006

This exhibit featured a selection of French, Dutch, German, and English maps and atlases including the first depiction of this cartographic anomaly appearing in 1622.

Lots and Lots: Early Maps of Parts of Boston and Cambridge
November 2004–March 2005

Recent Acquisitions and Interesting Finds
A selection of recent atlas and map acquisitions plus some unusual maps discovered among the Map Collections holdings. July 2004–November 2004

Civitatis Londinium: London from 1572
Spanning over four centuries, the exhibition documented how one of the cultural centers of the world grew from town to city to mega-metropolis. February 2004–June 2004

Treasures of the Harvard Map Collection
In conjunction with the 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography, the Harvard College Library hosted its first exhibit to highlight Harvard's cartographic treasures. Featured were items from the Houghton Library's Leichtenstein Collection, the Harvard Map Collection, the Gutman Library of the Graduate School of Education, and the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Items included: Casper Vopel's ca. 1558 world map in 12 sheets; Jodocus Hondius' 1595 eight-sheet map of Europe; John Seller's 1675 map of New England; Lewis Evan's 1749 map of the Middle British Colonies; Sanuto's 1588 atlas of Africa; Jeremy Belknap's 1796 manuscript maps of the boundaries between the United States. and the Indians; a Korean manuscript atlas from the 17th century; Haestens' 16th century six-sheet map of Jerusalem; and Osgood Carleton's map of the United States and his 1797 map of Boston. June 2003–September 2003

The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase
Featured selections from Mr. Chase's gifts to the Harvard Map Collection. Ernest Dudley Chase (1878–1966), a graphic artist from Winchester, Massachusetts, designed pictorial maps ranging in scale from his own hometown to global themes of navigation, exploration, communication, and world peace. He could be alternately whimsical, didactic, and subtly allusive—often on the same map.

The All-American Road Map
Featured early road maps representing the development of the nation's roadway system. September 2002–January 2003

Shaping the Emerald Isle: Early Irish Maps 1548–1860
Featured maps of Ireland from 1548 (Gastaldi), large-scale maps by John Rocque and Henry Pelham, and the unique cartography developed by the Irish Railway Commission. December 2001–March 2002

Emergent Africa: Early Maps of the Continent
Featured 23 original maps from the past 500 years that reveal the European exploration of the continent. Each was selected for its artistic, historic, and regional representation of the image of Africa as it emerged in the world's eye. May 2001–August 2001

A House Divided: Maps of the Civil War
Featured 35 Civil War period maps. Many of the maps were donations by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), Union officers who gathered to pledge their continued allegiance to the government during the dark days that followed the Lincoln assassination. September 2000–March 2001