Cardinal Jules Mazarin, whose black-and-gold lacquer chest with silver and mother-of-pearl decorations sold for $9.7 million. Painting after Phillippe de Champaigne (1602–1674). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
CHEVERNY, France (AFP) – An Edo-era Japanese chest belonging to Cardinal Mazarin, France’s chief minister from 1642 to 1661, was snapped up at an auction Sunday for 7.3 million euros ($9.7 million) by Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum.
The black-and-gold lacquer chest, with silver and mother-of-pearl decorations, dates back to the start of Japan’s Edo period and was acquired by Mazarin in 1658, auctioneer Philippe Rouillac said on Sunday after the sale in France’s Loire Valley.
Rouillac found the chest when he was contacted by some people who wanted to sell their parents’ home in the Loire Valley. The chest had been used as a bar for the past two decades.
Photographs dating back to the late 19th century confirmed that it was one of four chests bought by Mazarin, a great art collector who was Louis XIV’s godfather.
Its starting price at auction was a mere 200,000 euros ($264,000) but ended up fetching far more.
“It is the biggest auction sale of the year in France,” Rouillac said, adding that “the Rijksmuseum had the intelligence to gather the support of the biggest art patrons” to acquire the piece.
Born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, the Italian Catholic cardinal, diplomat, and politician succeeded his mentor, Cardinal Richelieu, as France’s chief minister.
He was also a noted collector of jewels, particularly diamonds. His personal library was the origin of the Bibliotheque Mazarine in Paris.
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Cardinal Jules Mazarin, whose black-and-gold lacquer chest with silver and mother-of-pearl decorations sold for $9.7 million. Painting after Phillippe de Champaigne (1602–1674). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Statue of Father Jacques Marquette in Marquette, Mich. Image by Einar Einarsson Kvaran. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) – A memorial ceremony is planned next month in Marquette to commemorate the restoration of a statue of Father Marquette.
The Mining Journal of Marquette reports that the historic statue was restored during the past several months by Detroit-based Venus Bronze Works. Workers last week replaced missing pieces and cleaned the statue, which has been at its current site for 100 years.
The memorial will be held July 15. It will include presentations by Marquette Mayor Johnny DePetro and the project’s leading sculptor, Giorgio Gikas.
Emily Lewis is president of the Marquette Beautification and Restoration Committee. She says work is not finished with the restoration. She says next comes landscaping, lighting and making the park accessible to people with disabilities.
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Campaign buttons from the past can be misleading. This McKinley button from the 1900 campaign is about jobs, not pollution. The 2-1/8-inch button made by W&H sold in 2012 for $1,948 at Hake’s Americana & Collectibles of York, Pa.
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – Political slogans and pictures from the past can sometimes be confusing because modern times suggest a different meaning. In the 1900 U.S. presidential campaign, William McKinley used the slogans “Protection and Prosperity” and “Four more years of the full dinner pail.” His campaign often pictured a workman’s lunchbox as a symbol of jobs.
One of his most famous buttons, if first seen today, would startle a 2013 voter. The button shows a strange boxlike container—the lunch pail of the day. Inside the pail is a building with smoke pouring from the smokestacks and the words: “Do you smoke? Yes, since 1896.” The smoking chimneys on the building represent work being done inside, just as the lunch pail means jobs. Today the smoke could be misinterpreted as pollution, and the answer given to “Do you smoke?” would suggest a health problem.
The rare button sold for $1,948 at a recent Hake’s Auction. It’s a reminder that both language and symbols can change with time and events, so collectors should be careful not to interpret objects or words from the past through modern eyes.
Q: My small electric mantel clock has a metal embossed design under the dial. The design includes a seaplane with a propeller that rotates when the clock is running. There’s also a sailing ship, a man standing near a tepee and the words “Polar Bird.” The case is Bakelite and like new. I can’t find a manufacturer’s name. Do you know who made it and what it’s worth today?
A: A clock matching yours auctioned last year for $119. Clocks like it, with extra parts that move when the clock is running, are called animated clocks. Yours probably dates from the 1930s, the decade following Adm. Richard Byrd’s first flights to both the north and south poles. Some sources say the clock was manufactured by the New Jersey Clock Co. of Newark, N.J., with an electric motor made by the Hammond Clock Co. of Chicago. Others say it’s a Chronart clock, which may have been a trade name used by the New Jersey Clock Co.
Q: I inherited a ceramic tile mural made up of 24 4-inch tiles. The tiles are not cemented together, but when laid out they picture a large sailing ship, two smaller sailboats and a lighthouse. One tile is signed “Pillsbury.” I think the tiles came from a pottery in Ohio. Any information and present value would be appreciated.
A: Hester W. Pillsbury (1862-1951) was a decorator who worked at Roseville and Weller, both Ohio potteries. Roseville Pottery was organized in Roseville, Ohio, in 1890 and opened a plant in nearby Zanesville in 1898. Roseville made pottery until 1954. Weller Pottery started out in Fultonham, Ohio, moved to Zanesville in 1882 and closed in 1948. Hester Pillsbury began working in about 1904 and worked at Weller after 1918. A tile picture like yours, made up of 24 signed tiles, could be worth $1,000 or more.
Q: I am interested in figuring out the value of a vintage Rolls Razor set called “The Traveler.” It includes a travel box and a razor with disassembled handles and other parts. The back of the razor says “Made in England.”
A: Rolls Razor, Ltd., of London was in business from the 1920s into the early 1950s. It made several razor models that used “permanent blades” rather than disposables. Rolls Razor sets were sold in the United States until the late 1940s by Charles Levin & Co. of New York City. Your Traveler set was not an early Rolls model. It probably dates from the 1930s. Rolls sets are easy to find at flea markets. But Traveler sets are not as common as some of the other sets. Your set might sell for $40 to $60 if it’s complete and in good condition.
Q: I just bought a piece of Brooklin Pottery. I thought it was from New York but I am told it is Canadian. Do you know anything about it? Are there many popular collectibles from Canada that aren’t well known in the states?
A: Of course. Collectors in the United States and Canada started looking at their own countries after soldiers saw all the antiques in Europe during World War II. The first books and publications about collecting in the United States concentrated on English porcelains and furniture, Georgian silver, prints, Staffordshire figures and Chippendale furniture that could have been made in many countries. American pieces were wanted by very few. Our trip to Eastern Canada from Ohio in the late 1950s was disappointing because we hoped to see Canadian things in antiques shops. We found a few in Nova Scotia selling early Canadian furniture, but shops in the large cities looked like ours—they were filled with mainly English or Asian pieces. But by the 1970s, Canadians had become interested in their own antiques and history and there were Canadian publications and shows. Brooklin Pottery was founded in 1952 by Theo and Susan Harlander. They had emigrated from Germany. Some of their best-known studio pottery is made with incised pictures of people and geometric designs in pale earthtones. The business was closed by 1987.
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Campaign buttons from the past can be misleading. This McKinley button from the 1900 campaign is about jobs, not pollution. The 2-1/8-inch button made by W&H sold in 2012 for $1,948 at Hake’s Americana & Collectibles of York, Pa.
An Egyptian mummy at the British Museum. Image by Klafubra. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. BOSTON (AP) – A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy named Padihershef came out of his coffin Friday to go to the hospital.
Well, actually, he had already been there for a while.
The mummy has been on display at Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the nation’s oldest, since it received him as a gift from the city of Boston in 1823 as a medical oddity. He is one of the first complete mummies brought to the United States.
A conservator trained in restoring ancient artifacts removed him from his coffin Friday and began using cotton swabs dabbed in saliva to wipe away salt deposits from his face. The salt has been slowly seeping out of his tissue, a result of the mummification process.
Mimi Leveque, the conservator, also used a tiny brush to wipe the film of white salt and used a small vacuum cleaner to remove the fine dust from skin darkened by mummification resins.
“I suppose you could say it was something very similar to a facelift, maybe more; maybe he is getting a facial in a spa, perhaps,” she said.
Experts are also expected to do minor repair and stabilization work on his coffin. The whole process is expected to take three days.
The mummy and his coffin will then be moved to a special horizontal case, in which they will lie next to each other, in the Ether Dome, a surgical amphitheater where William T. G. Morton demonstrated the first public surgery using anesthetic on Oct. 16, 1846.
Padihershef was a 40-year-old stonecutter in the necropolis in Thebes, an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile, in what is today’s Luxor.
“He was probably someone who was employed to open up the ground and to create the tombs for the kings in the Valley of Kings,” said Leveque, who specializes in Egyptian antiquities.
The mummy was a gift from a Dutch diplomat who was happy with Boston’s hospitality. The artifact’s arrival created quite a stir, and trustees of the hospital leased it to an entrepreneur who charged visitors $2.50 each to see it during a tour of American cities that extended as far south as Charleston, S.C., officials said.
No one knows exactly how the man who became a mummy lived or died. Experts are exploring those questions through a conservation project supported by the hospital and donors.
He had been greeting visitors to the hospital from his upright, open sarcophagus. He was removed from his case in March and taken on a patient stretcher to the imaging suites in the hospital, where technicians subjected him to full body X-ray and CT scanning.
Experts were surprised to see a broom handle embedded at the base of his head and running through his torso in what likely was a crude attempt to stabilize his head. There are no records to indicate when the repair was done and by whom, the hospital said on its website.
The study was intended to produce images that could be compared with those gleaned from exams conducted in 1931 and 1976 and to determine the condition of his bones. Those earlier tests revealed his bones had interrupted growth lines that indicate a severe childhood illness that resulted in stunted growth.
They also showed the mummy still has the brain in his skull, a rarity because it was typically removed to eliminate the chance of decomposition.
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Closeup of the record player in one of the rooms on the rock ‘n’ roll floor of Seattle’s Hotel Max. Image courtesy of Hotel Max.
SEATTLE (PRWEB) – Hotel Max, downtown Seattle’s home away from home for musicians, art lovers and the creatively inclined, has partnered with the city’s most influential independent record label, Sub Pop Records, to upgrade all 19 guest rooms on the hotel’s 5th floor. Each room has been equipped with Sub Pop band posters, turntables, label-curated vinyl records, and Sub Pop music videos on the in-room televisions. Timed to coincide with Sub Pop’s 25th anniversary this summer, Hotel Max’s launch of this new permanent Sub Pop floor celebrates the label that broke the city’s signature sound in the 90’s and has since nurtured the diverse Pacific Northwest scene that keeps music-obsessed travelers flocking to Seattle.
The guest room corridors at Hotel Max all feature large-scale black and white images from different Seattle photographers. The hotel’s 5th floor is a natural home for this project as it showcases work by Charles Peterson, whose camera captured the raw passion and power of Seattle’s music scene in the late ’80s and ’90s and whose photographs helped define the early Sub Pop aesthetic on the label’s record covers for Nirvana and Mudhoney. Installation of the Sub Pop floor at Hotel Max extends the experience that begins with these corridor photos into the guest rooms by highlighting the evolution of Seattle’s most notorious record label and sharing current Sub Pop releases with guests of Hotel Max.
Each guest room on the Sub Pop floor now features framed poster art from bands on the label’s current catalog. The posters are accompanied by a museum-like card with a QR code that enables guests to use their smart phone to visit the label’s website and order posters and music online. With posters from artists like Mogwai, Iron and Wine, Wolf Parade, Fleet Foxes and more, guests can ‘sleep with’ and get to know a different band every time they visit Hotel Max.
All guest rooms on the Sub Pop floor have also been equipped with Crosley record players and a selection of vinyl records curated by Sup Pop for guests to play during their stay. The first installation includes records by The Shins, METZ, Father John Misty, Flight of the Conchords and more. Sub Pop will periodically update this in-room record collection with new releases, giving guests at Hotel Max a unique experience each time they visit.
Also new, guest room televisions on the Sub Pop floor and in all 163 rooms in the hotel now feature a Sub Pop TV channel available only in Hotel Max that broadcasts current and classic Sub Pop music videos pulled from the label’s archives. With favorites by artists like Band of Horses, Beach House and The Head and The Heart, it is a musical experience available nowhere else in the world.
Rooms are now available on the Sub Pop floor at Hotel Max and guests can book online at www.hotelmaxseattle.com. Room assignments are based on availability; blackout dates may apply.
About Hotel Max:
Located at 620 Stewart Street in downtown Seattle, just six blocks northeast of Pike’s Place Market, the 163-room Hotel Max is at once a urban escape and a nontraditional art gallery where modern design gracefully interplays with original works of art and photography to create a one-of-a-kind experience. Hotel Max offers indulgent but essential amenities like Provenance Hotels’ signature Pillow, Spiritual and iPod menus and a “You Got It” button on every hotel phone for the most whimsical desire or typical need. Hotel Max can be reached by calling 206-728-6299 or found online at www.hotelmaxseattle.com, www.facebook.com/hotelmaxseattle, www.twitter.com/hotel_max.
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Closeup of the record player in one of the rooms on the rock ‘n’ roll floor of Seattle’s Hotel Max. Image courtesy of Hotel Max.View inside a room on the rock ‘n’ roll floor of Seattle’s Hotel Max. Image courtesy of Hotel Max.
DENVER (PRWEB) – The 29th Annual Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair will take place Aug. 2-3 in Denver. The largest even of its kind between Chicago and California, the show welcomes dealers and collectors of vintage and rare books and paper goods, including postcards, maps, art prints, old travel brochures, posters, ads and ephemera from decades – and centuries – past.
This year’s theme, “To Have and To Hold,” offers more reasons to attend the fair. Special presentations on collections and how to care for them will take place over the weekend. They include:
The Art of Collecting (Friday, 6:30pm). Chris Lane, the print and map expert for PBS’s program Antiques Roadshow, will discuss a consideration of what it means to collect, with reference to antique prints and maps.
Caring for your Collection (Saturday, 11am). Learn best practices for keeping your collection in prime condition. Join a panel of experts as they discuss conservation of: textiles, paintings, decorative and historic objects and books and paper.
Preservation Station (Saturday, 1pm). Karen Jones will present demonstrations on basic book care and handling and an opportunity to ask questions about collection care.
Hosted annually by the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), the fair has built a reputation as one of the nation’s leading antiquarian book fairs. Says chairperson Lois Harvey, “We work hard to make this a very enjoyable experience for both our exhibitors and attendees. The exhibitors often come so far and expend so much time and money to bring their best stuff to Denver, that we want to go the extra mile to make them feel welcome. And because we continue to attract the nation’s best booksellers, the fair continues to be a cultural boon to Colorado.
The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair takes place August 2-3 at the Denver Mart, I-25 at 58th Ave. (exit east). Advanced tickets are available through Eventbrite (http://www.RMBPF2013.eventbrite.com). Admission is $10 for Friday evening’s preview (includes Saturday re-admission) and $5 on Saturday. Parking is free. Show hours: Friday 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association is an organization of used and rare book dealers in the Rocky Mountain west area. The organization’s members are dedicated to stimulating book collecting, promoting ethical trade in all facets of the antiquarian book business, and educating the public in the field of antiquarian books.
Virginia’s Tidewater region is rich with history. This photographic reproduction of a 1585 painting by John White depicts a Chesapeake Bay warrior attired in a way that suggests a later description in Capt. John Smith’s 1624 ‘Generall Historie.’ Image considered to be in the public domain in the United States.WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (PRWEB) – Following 125 years of service to the preservation of Virginia’s antiquities as the Colonial Capital Branch of Preservation Virginia, the Williamsburg based historical society is expanding its services into the new organization of the Tidewater Virginia Historical Society.
The society’s territory stretches from east of the fall line, north to the Potomac River.
“What makes us unique is we will actively promote and partner with historical, archaeological and other similar non-profit organizations,” said Joe Burkart, the society’s inaugural president. “We’re already planning lectures, tours, educational programs and periodic social events as we did with the Colonial Capital Branch”
Because of the society’s history in preservation and historical education, its members serve as a resource to other historic societies looking for resources, guidance and education.
Among the society’s first projects is the creation of the History Museum Trail, a roadmap to lead residents and visitors to and from Williamsburg and along a rural path that showcases nearly 40 mostly small historic sites and museums. Literally.
It links many of the museums and historic sites along Virginia’s byways, encouraging visitors and residents to experience more of the region’s rich history.
The History Museum Trail will start in front of a computer or on a smart phone at http://www.tv-hs.org and feature an interactive web based map (with mobile applications) with information about each museum and historic site located within a short drive of Williamsburg. This trail will include travel directions to get seamlessly from one site to another, and places to lodge and eat along the way.
The first version of the trail’s web map is expected to be available online this summer.
“The Tidewater Virginia Historical Society’s vision to create a museum trail in the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck is an opportunity to showcase the region and contribute to local economies,” said Virginia Del. Keith Hodges. “Through sales, income and employment, the museum trail positions the area for unprecedented growth.”
The Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula are already destinations for many vacationers utilizing the region’s vast natural resources to boat and play along the Chesapeake Bay’s waters.
“The vision of these dedicated volunteers,” Hodges said, “will create a natural road map to enable visitors to navigate our beautiful and historic peninsulas.”
In addition to the History Museum Trail, the Tidewater Virginia Historical Society is planning a public archaeology project, where the community will be invited to dig with the archaeologists. Thanks to a partnership with the Fairfield Foundation on the Middle Peninsula and York County, a new archaeological dig will kick off to explore a former Carter’s Grove slave quarter in New Quarter Park. Details about the project and how the public will be able to participate will be available at a later date.
Learn more about the Tidewater Virginia Historical Society at http://www.tv-hs.org. For more information, email information@tv-hs.org.
Victor VI disc phonograph. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Bunte Auctions Services Inc. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Amelia “Foxtrot” Raley isn’t a typical Austin DJ. She has no laptop, speakers or need for an electrical outlet. Instead, Raley lugs two 1900s-era phonographs and a crate of vintage records to her gigs and literally cranks out the nostalgic tunes of yesteryear.
At a recent Austin Mini Maker Faire event, Raley’s old-timey DJ set lured a group of wide-eyed children around her booth. “This record player is more than 100 years old,” Raley told the curious faces. She hand-cranked the phonograph’s small lever like manually rolling down a car window and dropped a thick needle that landed in the grooves of her old 78 revolutions per minute record. Then, out of the phonograph’s big horn boomed the sweet 1917 tune My Fox Trot Girl by the era’s famous saxophone ensemble the Six Brown Brothers.
Some of the taller kids poked their small heads in the horn for an irresistible peek inside a machine unlike anything they’d seen before. “It’s louder than I thought,” one of them said. The shorter kids tiptoed just enough to stick their hands in the bell. Almost immediately they smiled when they felt the vibrations of the music buzzing through their fingers.
Raley launched the Austin Phonograph Co. last summer after her friend Devaki Knowles suggested that she DJ at her outdoor wedding ceremony. A fellow lover of all things vintage, Knowles threw a laid-back old-fashioned wedding and loved the idea of the atmospheric songs of the past as part of her big day. The park didn’t allow amplified music, so Raley’s no-electricity-required phonographs turned out to be a perfect solution.
Knowles, a photographer with Fun Loving Photos, met Raley through a monthly vintage party series that Raley helped organize at Swan Dive.
“I knew she had great taste,” Knowles told the Austin American-Statesman. “From the tablecloths she uses to the hairstyle she wears, it’s genuine and very Austin.” Guests were so receptive to the authentic phonograph idea that Raley decided to launch a business that’s now taken her across the Texas Hill Country for weddings and private events.
Raley doesn’t just look the part—she lives a vintage-inspired lifestyle. Raley’s been fascinated with the 1920-30s since she was a teenager. One of the first things she did when she got an AOL dial-up Internet account was search for “flappers.” Today, she owns Sweet Ritual, an old-fashioned ice-cream parlor inside of JuiceLand in Hyde Park. She enjoys researching and reading about the era, and signs her emails with “compiled by electric stenographer.” She has collected old valentines, sheet music and vintage clothes for years.
“It made sense to collect the music, too,” she says. “I’ve been enamored by these outside horn machines (another term for phonographs) for a while.”
In 2008, Raley purchased her first phonograph. It was a reproduction, but it fueled her passion for the machines with its rich sound and elegant shape. Raley has owned a progression of phonographs throughout the years, even funding the purchase of one through a successful Kickstarter campaign. Most phonographs in good condition start at about $2,500. Raley plays two vintage 1902 and 1907 models and also owns a smaller one that’s built into a suitcase. Raley purchased the two bigger phonographs through a dealer at the Marburger Farm Antique Show in Round Top.
At Raley’s DJ events, guests can listen to anything from 1920s hot jazz to Texas swing, with records spanning from 1915 to about 1938. Sometimes you can find Raley perusing the record selection at local shops or on eBay, and other times record collectors contact her.
Unlike the 78s most people are familiar with, Raley’s 78s only play one song per side and are made out of shellac, so they weigh a little more than vinyl. Thick, sharp needles last for one record before having to be discarded. That means Raley usually buys a couple thousand needles at a time on eBay. A small compartment on Raley’s phonograph stores old needles headed for the trash.
When she shows up as the live entertainment at a wedding or art gallery opening, she says regular DJs are often taken aback. “Oh, gosh, you’re the real deal,” she remembers one DJ saying. But Raley doesn’t call herself a DJ to other DJs.
“No matter how many times people ask me, I still can’t scratch the record,” she says. Without the ability to mix, Raley says she has a little less creative input as far as the music she plays. She calls what she does DJing so people can understand and relate, but she considers her live entertainment more of a performance.
As vintage-inspired television shows such as Boardwalk Empire and movies such as The Great Gatsby seep into popular culture, the music and the fashions of the early 1900s have become hip. But although the trend has helped Austinites embrace her hand-cranked phonographs, Raley says she’ll still be writing letters on her old typewriter and cranking the tunes on her 110-year-old phonograph long after it fades.
An original costume sketch by Walter Plunkett, costume designer for the movie ‘Gone With the Wind.’ This mourning dress was designed for Ellen, Scarlett O’Hara’s mother. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com archive and Heritage Auctions.
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) – An exhibit of memorabilia from the movie Gone With the Wind is now at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City.
The exhibit “Real to Reel: The Making of Gone With the Wind” has memorabilia owned by James Tumblin, the former head of the Universal Studios makeup and hair department.
Included in the exhibit are several costumes, including Scarlett O’Hara’s dress from the Shantytown scene; Bonnie Blue’s velvet dress from her final scene; and the uniform that Ashley Wilkes wore when he returned home from the Civil War. Other items include production paintings and the typewriter that Sidney Howard used to write the script.
Also included from the 1939 movie is the Academy Award that Vivien Leigh won for her portrayal of Scarlett.
The exhibit continues through Dec. 31.
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An original costume sketch by Walter Plunkett, costume designer for the movie ‘Gone With the Wind.’ This mourning dress was designed for Ellen, Scarlett O’Hara’s mother. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com archive and Heritage Auctions.
Chapman’s New Sectional Map of Wisconsin published in 1868. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com and PBA Galleries.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Historical Society officials say they now have more than 3,000 digital versions of rare maps and atlases online.
The online catalog was helped by the Caxambas (Cax-AM’-bas) Foundation, which started donating in 2009 for the cataloging, preservation and digitization of the maps.
According to the historical society, it has 25,000 maps altogether but the collection had previously been neglected because the maps required specialized handling that most staff couldn’t provide.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison contributed staff to catalog several hundred of them, but at the time of the first donation thousands of maps could only be found through an antiquated card catalog. Hundreds more lay in random piles.
The donations also enabled catalogers to describe more than 4,000 maps and atlases for the campus online library catalog.
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Chapman’s New Sectional Map of Wisconsin published in 1868. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com and PBA Galleries.
