{"id":20557,"date":"2016-08-10T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=20557"},"modified":"2016-08-10T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T17:32:16","slug":"geography-galvani-a-selection-of-the-william-h-galvani-rare-maps-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/08\/10\/geography-galvani-a-selection-of-the-william-h-galvani-rare-maps-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography & Galvani: A Selection of the William H. Galvani Rare Maps Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was written by\u00a0Lauren Goss, MLIS student at San Jose State University and student assistant in SCARC.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The William H. Galvani Rare Maps collection consists of over 1,000 maps spanning the entire globe. \u00a0Equipped with a background in history and geography, I was pleased to take on the challenging and complex task of arranging and describing this collection. \u00a0This blog post features a few maps giving a glimpse of the breadth and depth of this fascinating collection.<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a>

Map of Africa Showing Railway and Telegraphic Lines, Elevations and Latest Geographical Data
From: The National Geographic Magazine, (Vol. XX, No. 3), March 1909
Editor: Grosvenor, Gilbert H.
Publisher: The Matthews-Northrup Works<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Item<\/a>

Item 11: Croquis de Positions Francaises et Chinoises dans la Region de Chu (Loch-Nan) du 7 au 14 Octobre 1884 (Carte 11)
From: Journal des Sciences Militaires
Geographic Location: Vietnam
Printer: Dufrenoy
Publisher: Baudoin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Carte<\/a>

Carte pour Suivre Les Operations du Siege de Paris avec l’indication des Secteurs , 8a, 1878 From: Panorama de la defense de Paris contre les armes allemandes par Philippoteaux. Explication precedee d’une notice historiique avec carte du departement de la Seine By: DuPont, Paul
Engraver: La Beolle, A.
Geographic Location: Paris (France)
Printer: Dupont Jr., Paul<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Adirondack<\/a>

Adirondack Survey 1873 – Specimen of Preliminary Reconnaissance Sketch Showing the Approximate Positions and Names of Thirty Nine Ponds or Lakes Important and New to the Maps (Pl. 11), circa 1870
From: Report on the topographical survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York for the year 1873. By: Verplanck, Colvin; New York (State) State Land Survey
Geographic Location: Adirondack Mountains, New York (United States)
Lithographer: Weed Parsons & Co.
Surveyor: Colvin, Verplanck<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Map<\/a>

Map of Eastern Honduras, showing the gold and silver regions of Olancho & Tegucigalpa; and the Valley of the Guayape, 1857
From: Explorations and adventures in Honduras. By: Wells, William V
Cartographer: Well, E.
Engraver: C. Copley
Geographic Location: Honduras<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sketch<\/a>

Sketch Map Showing the Mineral & Silk Districts of the Province of Shan-Tung (China) to accompany the paper by J. Markham, Esqre (Vol XL, Page 207), 1870
From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society
Cartographer: Wellen, Edward
Geographic Location: China<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post was written by\u00a0Lauren Goss, MLIS student at San Jose State University and student assistant in SCARC.\u00a0 The William H. Galvani Rare Maps collection consists of over 1,000 maps spanning the entire globe. \u00a0Equipped with a background in history and geography, I was pleased to take on the challenging and complex task of arranging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Geography & Galvani: A Selection of the William H. Galvani Rare Maps Collection","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-page"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}