LMEC Designer-in-Residence Selected for the Atlas of Design

Congratulations are in order for 2023 Leventhal Center Designer-in-Residence Andrew Woodruff, whose work will appear in the newest volume of the Atlas of Design. The selected map, titled East Boston Sea Level Rise Flood Risk, was created during Andy’s residency at the Leventhal Center. The map borrows the visual style of the historic urban atlases that appear in Atlascope, but updates the content to reflect modern climate change flood risks, rather than fire risks.

Learn more about Woodruff’s map → 

In-Person: From the Vault: Time Travel Back to 1906 Boston · Friday, October 11, 2-4 pm ET

Curious to see what Boston looked like at the turn of the twentieth century? During this edition of From the Vault, we’ll have the iconic 1906 film Seeing Boston playing in our classroom, accompanied by maps and other objects from BPL Special Collections that help animate the places seen in the film.

Learn more about the event → 

Virtual: Richard H. Brown Seminar Series - Martin Brückner · Tuesday, October 22, 7 pm ET

Learn about how the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century profoundly affected people’s material lives and paved the way for other more momentous political revolutions.

In this program, Martin Brückner will discuss how maps—such as many of those shown in American Revolutionary Geographies Online—became popular consumer goods and how their material transfer as “cartifacts” came to shape everyday and political life in early America. Brückner is Professor of English and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware.

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What’s Going On In the Gallery? — Learning Center

Have you ventured into our Learning Center recently?

Located at the back of our gallery, the Learning Center is a spot to study, read, chat, color, or work on a puzzle. You’ll often see one of our map puzzles out on the first table, complete with a log to record visitors’ progress. If you manage to finish the puzzle, take a picture and show the desk attendant to receive a prize! Also featured in the Learning Center is an interactive tour through our digital collections. With the handy spinner, visitors can scroll through nearly 9,000 map images. Come visit and give it a try!

Visit the Learning Center → 

Newsletter Trivia: Boston’s Great Elm

It’s time to test your map and history knowledge to win a chance of receiving three free months in our Map Of The Month Club. In order to enter, make sure you follow us on Instagram or Facebook and direct message us the answer to the following question. We’ll accept answers until October 7 at 9 am ET. Correct answers will be included in a random draw—the winner will receive the next three Map of the Month club postcards for free. Congratulations to our last winner, Candice!

The Great Elm was a feature on the Boston Common grounds and was estimated to have been there since the park’s founding in the 1630s. One unfortunate day, the iconic tree was toppled during a harsh storm! What year did Boston’s Great Elm tree fall?

• 1860
• 1856
• 1881
• 1876

The answer to the last Newsletter Trivia question about the US town with the oldest continuously operating public library is Franklin, MA.

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New in the Collections

This 1958 map published for the Automobile Manufacturers Association makes you want to hit the road—in a big rig. Showing “America’s Products and the Trucks That Carry Them,” this pictorial map is a celebration of the American economy at a time of expansion and growth, coupled with an illustrated guide to the many kinds of trucks that were beginning to fill the highways of the midcentury United States.

See the catalog record → 

Stock Up on Maps with 10% Off

For all of our newsletter subscribers, we would like to thank you so much for your support of the Leventhal Map & Education Center. A coupon code for our store will be included at the end of each newsletter. The code will change monthly, so be sure to stay updated on what’s going on at the LMEC with each newsletter!

For the month of October, receive 10% any item in the store with the code FALLLEAVES.

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