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“Envisioning the World” to be exhibited concurrently with “Mapping the Pacific Coast”!

Joining its sister exhibition Mapping the Pacific Coast, which has been recently retired at the Columbia River Maritime Museum, in the only duel exhibition of both collections.

Wendt interview with Community Television Network of Portland Maine

View this wonderful interview at the Osher Map Library with Envisioning collector Henry Wendt here! http://itms.usm.maine.edu/dropbox/osher.mov

Article in Santa Rosa magazine

Author Dan Taylor promotes Envisioning the World in his “History Mapped” article from the winter 2009 edition of Santa Rosa magazine. Read the pdf of the article here.

Article in North Bay Bohemian

“Every map has a story, and a sequence of maps is a grand story.”

Article in Press Democrat

Covering the world premier of Envisioning the World at the Sonoma County Museum, “Exhibit of rare maps offers look at the past” was published September 29, 2009. In the article, Henry Wendt is interviewed about his interest in maps and the meaning behind the maps in the exhibition. “This exhibit is an intellectual history,” he [...]