WOMEN IN CARTOGRAPHY AT THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | NYS GIS Association
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Boston, MA – Women in Cartography: Five Centuries of Accomplishments, documenting the transitioning role of women in cartography over the past 500 years, opens Saturday, October 31, at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square. The exhibit features 40 maps, globes, atlases and works of art from the 17th century to the present made by women, and charts the evolution of their role in cartography from engravers in the 16th century to designers and creators in the present day. <zzz!–[if gte=”” vml=”” 1]=””><zzz![endif]–><zzz![endif]>The exhibition is curated by Alice Hudson, retired Chief of the Map Division at the New York Public Library, and co-curated by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Assistant Curator of Maps, Stephanie Cyr.
