Harvard Map Collection

Cartographic Research Assistant, JR, shows the 1939 stamp of the last time a student checked out (!) this 1633 Mercator atlas to University Librarian, Martha Whitehead, and Houghton Librarian for Scholarly and Public Programs, Peter Accado at last night's Renaissance Treasures exhibit opening. https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/renaissance-treasures-harvard-map-collection

Are you going to a shopping mall this Black Friday? Instead, why not make a map of all the malls in your vicinity? The Harvard Map Collection’s map making tutorials include step-by-step instructions for how to download geographic data for commonly tagged locations, such as malls and shops. Head over to our website and give yourself the gift of

As our cartographic peregrinations change course, we bid a fond adiós/adeus to the southern Americas; here in a 1562 map by Paulo di Forlani, with an almost rectangular presentation and an appended Tierra del Fuego, impressively vast and still indistinct.

While two right whales (?) frolic offshore, the great Andean mountain range is bathed in the light of a setting sun as shadows cloak the eastern slopes; in this strikingly elegant 1630 presentation of , by the estimable shop of Willem Janszoon Blaeu.