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Archives: Previous Meetings of the New York Map Society

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Saturday, May 10^th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Strategies for Collecting Old Maps

Michael Buehler

Guest speaker Michael Buehler will discuss strategies for collecting old maps, including conditions and costs as well as establishing a relationship with a dealer.

Mr. Buehler is an antiquarian dealer specializing in antique and rare maps of New England and the North East. Map dealing for Michael is not only a business, but also a passion which he enjoys sharing with others. He is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABBA), the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MARIAB), the Boston Map Society, the Washington Map Society, as well as the North American Historic Print Collectors Society.

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Saturday, April 12^th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Adriaen Block, the Discovery of Long Island Sound
and the New Netherlands Colony: What Drove the Course of History?

Joop Varekamp

Adriaen (Aerjan) Block (ca. 1567, Amsterdam – buried April 27, 1627, Amsterdam) was a Dutch private trader and navigator best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson. He is noted for establishing early trade with the Native Americans, and for the 1614 map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which Nieu Nederlandt (“New Netherland”) is first applied to the region. He is credited with being the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River and to determine that Manhattan and Long Island are islands.

Johan (“Joop”) Varekamp is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Sciences, Chair of the Earth and Environmental Studies Department, and Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Extra Meeting (see details below)

Wednesday, March 12^th at 6:30 pm

Mapping Hazards in America: Earthquakes, Coastal Storms, and Sea Level Rise

Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Syracuse University

Professor Monmonier will use a variety of maps to explore cartographic strategies for coping with earthquakes, coastal storms, and rising sea levels. Environmental cartography can be a platform for informed discussion of ethical issues related to restrictions on living or investing in high-risk areas.

This event is open to the public and admission is free.

Meeting Details: Please note that this special event is in addition to the New York Map Society's regular monthly meetings.

New York Society for Ethical Culture
Ceremonial Hall
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
New York, NY 10024

Saturday, March 8^th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Ireland in Maps: History Through Controversy

Michael O. Shannon

Professor Shannon will review the history of Ireland before mapping; ancient to modern sources; Ireland as seen through the views of outsiders; the cartographic role of colonialism in preserving and obliterating the past; the role of antiquarianism in sustaining the historic artifact; the development of the Ordnance Survey and its impact; and thematic mapping in Ireland today. We will view examples drawn from the time of Ptolemy, Norden, Mercator, Hondius, Vrients, Blaeu, Petty, Scale and others.

Professor Shannon is Professor Emeritus of Lehman College, City University of New York, former chief librarian, a current member of the City University Institute for Irish American Studies, the Columbia University Seminar on Irish Studies, the American Conference for Irish Studies, and is author of Modern Ireland, The Irish Republic, Northern Ireland, and other works. He has also been a member of various geographic and cartographic organizations. His other interests include urban planning, the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, military mapping, and maps on fabric.

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Saturday, February 9^th, 2008 at 2:30pm

A Bird's Eye View of Southeastern New England & New York
— and —
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations

Ron Grim & Vincent Virga

Guest speaker Ron Grim's talk will focus on Boston, nearby towns, and areas from Southern New Hampshire to New York State.

In the second part of the program, Vincent Virga and Ron Grim will talk about the production and content of Cartographia, which offers a selection of 200 maps from the collection of the Library of Congress. The book is not available for sale at the Library, but attendees who already own a copy are invited to bring it to the meeting, where Virga and Grim will be happy to sign it.

Mr. Grim is the Curator of Maps at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. Formerly, he worked at the Library of Congress in the Geography and Map Division. Photo editor Vincent Virga has worked on more than 150 books and is the author of two novels.

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Saturday, January 12^th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Mysterious Mapmakers: Exploring the Impossibly Accurate
16th-Century Maps of Antarctica and Greenland

Leslie Trager

New York Map Society member Les Trager will discuss maps published in the 16th century that clearly show Antarctica and Greenland. Yet no known explorer had reached either place at that time. Les will try to answer a few intriguing questions: From what maps did those early cartographers copy? Who made the surveys in the first place?

Mr. Trager is a lawyer in New York City, and a member of the Explorers Club and the Mercator Society.

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Saturday, December 8^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Maps in Symbolic Graphic Art: Notes from the Op-Ed pages

David Suter

Artist/illustrator David Suter will discuss the use of the map as a symbolic form in his work as an illustrator for The New York Times, Time Magazine and other publications.

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Saturday, November 3^rd, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Deforming History: A Phenomenological and Computational Study
of the 1507 and 1516 World Maps of Martin Waldseemüller

John Hessler, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress

The sources used for Waldseemüller's 1507 and 1516 World Maps have been a source of speculation since their discovery by Joseph Fischer in 1901. Guest speaker John Hessler will describe computer-based research at the Library of Congress which reveals very different geographical sources for each map. For the 1507 map, Waldseemüller may have had access to currently unknown information, while the 1516 map reveals error patterns consistent with Portolan chart sources. Hessler will discuss the methodology of the computer models and their general applicability to historical cartography and present these new results in the context of the known documentary evidence regarding Waldseemüller. He will also discuss the argon encasement of Waldseemüller's 1507 map by the Library and his new book and translation of Cosmographiae Introductio, The Naming of America, to be published by the Library of Congress in December.

A “Second Degree Polynomial Warp” of Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta Marina Manuscript (Sheet 6).

After Mr. Hessler's presentation, New York Map Society member Dr. Alfred Moldovan will display a copperplate map Palestina Moderna et Terra Sancta, published in Florence, Italy in the late 15th century. The map was copied from Petrus Vesconte's map of Palestine first published in the early 14th century.

NOTE: This meeting is on the first Saturday of the month, instead of our usual second-Saturday schedule.

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Saturday, October 13^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Early Sea Charts and The Norse Discovery of America:
New evidence in the Search for Vinland?

Neil Good

Mr. Good will discuss how the 1689 edition of The English Pilot: The Fourth Book, and other early nautical and topographic charts might provide over-looked clues which add support to the long held theory that the coastline of Cape Cod and Nantucket Sound are described in the 13th century Vinland sagas.

“A Correct Map of the Coast of New England” From The English Pilot, 1758 edition

(From the Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library)

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Saturday, September 8^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

A Geographic Bicentennial

John Cloud, Historian/Geographer, NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)

The oldest scientific agency in the U. S. government, NOAA is descended from the Survey of the Coast, which Thomas Jefferson authorized in 1807. The Survey began as an exercise but became an institution, the Coast Survey, later known as the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and since 1970, as NOAA. Under Ferdinand Hassler's direction (1832-1843), the very first initiative of the Survey was to establish a geodetic network around New York's harbor and bay. This presentation on the cartographic treasures of the Survey will include imagery from a recent scanning project of Coast Survey records in the National Archives, including many original manuscript maps and rediscovered telescopic views of pastoral New York that have not been seen in more than a century.

John Farley's 1844 engraved telescopic view of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. Sheet 1 of the Survey's Map of the Approaches to New York Harbor and the Environs.

NOTE: This month's meeting will be in the lower-level Auditorium in the Library's South Court Celeste Bartos Education Center. Stairway and elevator are just inside the door to the Education Center.

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Saturday, August 11^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930

Joseph Garver, Reference Librarian at the Harvard Map Collection

Mr. Garver's presentation is based on his new book, Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930. (Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions 2006). The book traces the cartographic history of coastal Massachusetts from the first crude representations of the land and sea to detailed plans and charts based on rigorous geodetic surveys. Earlier this year Mr. Garver curated an exhibit of maps from his book at Harvard's Map Collection, and he is currently at work on his next book—a cartographic history of Rhode Island (Commonwealth Editions, summer 2008).

For further information on Harvard Map Collection exhibits please see their website at http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#hmc.

Surveying the Shore is available on amazon.com.

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Saturday, July14^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

A Summertime Social

1:30 pm: “Brown Bag” It: Bring your own sandwich and soda and meet the rest of us for lunch at the south end of the Library's outdoor terrace on Fifth Avenue. If it's raining, just proceed to the Library Map Room (Room 117) and we'll have our lunch there instead.

2:30 pm: Our invited guest speakers this month are you, our members and guests. Society president Sy Amkraut will lead an informal round-table discussion in which we can all discuss our personal collections and interests, compare notes, offer assistance to others, and chat about your—and our—plans for the future.

Meeting Report: Some members met for a pleasant pre-meeting lunch on a beautiful day under the trees of the Library's East Court. We then adjourned to a NYPL classroom to introduce ourselves and each attendeed spoke of his or her own cartographic interests. We heard fourteen entertaining and impressive cartobiographies from a very eclectic group.

At future meetings we will schedule a discussion about an interesting cartigraphic item such as an antiquarian map or globe or some other unusual item that will be displayed to members and guests.

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Field Trip: Saturday, June 9^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

The Hudson and Its Watershed: The Making of a Map

Connie Brown, Cartographer

Ms. Brown has created a map of the Hudson River Watershed and the Beacon Institute's Program Coordinator Patti Dunne, has created an exhibit that leads the visitor through the fascinating process of map making with all of the layers, traditions and decisions that go into making a map. The Beacon Institute is located at:
199 Main Street
Beacon, NY 12508
1-845-838-1600

A Beacon Institute van will meet the 12:51 pm train when it arrives at 2:17 pm. Look for the van in the station parking lot.

Round-trip fares from Grand Central Terminal to Beacon, New York:

• $ 23.00 Regular fare, purchase ticket at station
• $ 21.86 Regular fare, purchase web ticket
• $ 15.00 Senior/Disabled fare, purchase ticket at station
• $ 14.26 Senior/Disabled fare, purchase web ticket

The Beacon Institute's website is at http://www.thebeaconinstitute.org/home/.

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Saturday, May 12^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Is the Lenox Globe Older than the 1507 Waldseemüller Map?

Peter Dickson

Since its acquisition in 1911, the Lenox Globe has been among the most treasured items in the New York Public Library's collection. Nearly 130 years ago, Franklin da Costa declared it to be the oldest post-1492 globe, the oldest globe to show any portion of the New World, and moreover the first cartographic instrument to show the entire continent of South America. No subsequent discoveries of maps and globes have shaken these conclusions. However, the Lenox globe's historical significance merits greater public appreciation if da Costa and other scholars are correct that this globe was made before the famous Waldseemüller world map of 1507. Peter Dickson will review the historiography of the discussion and analysis of the Lenox globe which has received relatively little attention since the 1920s.

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Saturday, April 14^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Field Trip: Sterling Memorial Library

Abe Parrish, Interim Curator, Yale Map Collection

Society members will meet at the Sterling Memorial Library located at Yale University. We will meet at our usual time of 2:30 in the Nave and be escorted up to the 7th floor for our meeting. Abe Parrish, Interim Curator of the Yale Map Collection will conduct the lecture and the meeting will run until about 4:30. Among the treasures Mr.Parrish might show us are maps, globes and globe gores by Vincenzo Coronelli, the George Washington atlas, a Bleau globe, maps by Ben Franklin, and copper and wood engraved plates and blocks. He will also discuss Yale's initiative to get their maps completely cataloged, digitized and made available to the public.

Directions, transportation information and further information about the Sterling Memorial Library are located on their web site at http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/sml/

Round Trip Train Fares, New York City-New Haven:
  Amtrak (Penn Station): $73 Adult, $62.05 Senior
  Metro North (Grand Central): $28 Adult, $18.50 Senior

IMPORTANT NOTE: Registration for this members-only event is now closed. Due to security requirements, members whose names are not on the attendance list will not be admitted. Please have two forms of identification available.

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Saturday, March 10^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

United States of America v.
Edward Forbes Smiley III

Kim Martineau, Staff Writer, Hartford Courant

Ms. Martineau began her reports on the E. Forbes Smiley III case immediately after his X-acto knife was discovered on the floor at the Yale University Library. Since then, she has covered the continuing investigation, and was present when Smiley was sentenced. At this month's meeting, she'll offer members and guests an overview of the complete case.

NOTE: This month's meeting will be in the lower-level Auditorium in the Library's South Court Celeste Bartos Education Center. Stairway and elevator are just inside the door to the Education Center.

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Saturday, February 10^th, 2007 @ 3:00 pm

From Waterside to Landside—Early American Coastal Charts
and their Contribution to Landside Information

Alice Hudson, Chief, Map Division, The New York Public Library

Nautical charts may well be a forgotten resource for landside history. This meeting examines a series of charts, from those of John Seller and the English Pilot, Fourth Book, to Atlantic Neptune sheets, blueback charts, Mathew Clarks's first American-made charts and William Heather's glorious coastal masterpieces. In our 21st century need to categorize everything into separate niches, we may well ignore the nautical chart as a source for insight on American history. Ms. Hudson will describe the nautical chart as an informant on early American culture and history, focusing especially on the 1845 Coast Survey nautical chart of New York Harbor.

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Saturday, January 13^th, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

American Mapping of the Soviet Union, 1917-1960

Member Henry Serotin gave an informative lecture on America's attempts to map the Soviet Union from 1917-1960. He discussed how most mapping during this period came from military sources and how difficult it was to map such a large, secretive nation.

Prior to the presentation, members reviewed and approved the Society's new Bylaws, and our annual election was held. Our officers and board members for 2007 are:

• President: Sy Amkraut
• Vice President: John Woram
• Secretary: Heather Kinsinger
• Treasurer: Cathe Giffuni
• Counsel: Fredric Shauger
• Advisor: Alice Hudson

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Saturday, December 9^th, 2006 @ 2:30 pm

“Putting ‘America’ on the Map.”

Cartographic Historian Dr. Seymour Schwartz told us all about the controversy surrounding Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 woodcut map—the first to show America as a separate continent, and the first to display the name America. Dr. Schwartz also mentioned his soon-to-be published book, Putting America on the Map.

Meeting Report: Sy Amkraut opened our final meeting of the year in the Library's South Court Auditorium. During our short business meeting, Sy reported that in accordance with the by-laws and the decision of the Board, election of Society officers would be held at our next meeting on Jan. 13, 2007. It was decided that we would accept nominations at today's meeting, online until January 10, and at the January 13 meeting.

Alice Hudson nominated the existing Board for a second term:

• President: Sy Amkraut
• Vice President and Treasurer: Cathe Giffuni
• Secretary: Heather Kinsinger

Ms. Hudson cited the importance of continuity while our Society is still in a period of being reconstituted. Her motion was seconded and adopted.

Heather Kinsinger told us about our future programs and invited members to submit articles for the Features section of the web site to our web master, John Woram. E-mail:

Sy reminded us that annual dues of $20 are due starting next month and invited the 79 paid-up members and any prospective members to give their checks to Cathe Giffuni or leave them at the Map Room.

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November 15^th, 2006 — 6:00-7:30 pm

Special Event: Society of Daughters of Holland Dames & Mercator Society of the New York Public Library

Early Maps of Nieuw Amsterdam and Environs: Keys to our Genealogy and Local History

A Map Exhibit and Presentation by Alice C. Hudson, Chief, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. A reception in the Berger Forum will precede the lecture, and a visit to the Map Division will follow where a table exhibit of early mapping of Dutch Nieuw Amsterdam will be on view for this evening only. Meeting location:

The New York Public Library
The Berger Forum (Room 228)
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street

Admission: FREE, but RSVP required by November 3rd to 212-930-0589. Please leave name, number of attendees, after 4 rings.

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October 18^th, 2006. Reception @ 6:00 pm, Program @ 6:30 pm

Special Event: Mercator Society Meeting

“The Art of Mapping.” Cartographer and New York Map Society member Connie Brown will present the Library with a globe that she has crafted. Members of the New York Map Society are invited to attend. Meeting location:

The New York Public Library
Trustees Room (Room 206)
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street

Please R. S. V. P. Sarah Kimmerle (212) 930-0654 if you'd like to attend.

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October 14^th, 2006 @ 2:30 pm

New York Historical Society Field Trip

(Members Only): We will visit The New York Historical Society for a look at some of their treasured antiquarian maps. We'll learn about the provenance, history and other interesting features of some of the following maps.

Meeting Location:
New York Historical Society
West 77th Street & Central Park West
2nd floor Reading Room

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must register in advance to attend this event. To do so, please RSVP to:

Please add your name to the message body before sending.

Visit the New York Historical Society web site at http://www.nyhistory.org/ for general information about the Society.

For a $5.00 fee, you may visit the Society's exhibit areas before or after our meeting. There is a sandwich and snack restaurant in the basement of the building.

Meeting Summary:

A group of 25 of us gathered around a large table in the Library to examine some of maps in their collection, which were described by the Society's Miriam Touba. Some of us stayed to examine the maps more closely, while others visited other exhibits at the Historical Society.

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September 9^th, 2006

Asteroid Occultation Maps

Charlie Ridgeway will speak about Asteroid Occultation Maps. For more information visit his Occultation Maps for North America web site at: http://digitalmagic.i8.com/Astronomy/Occultations/

“Astronomers have used maps for years. These are the sky maps and globes that we saw on our field trip to Arader Galleries. But there are also lesser known to the general public terrestrial maps that show where events such as eclipses and occultations will be visible from terra firma. Traditionally those maps have come as printed products in yearly astronomical handbooks and monthly publications. This month we will take a look at how the digital age, and Google in particular, has changed that. Since the talk will focus on the use of maps in locating asteroid occultations, we will make a brief segue into the Near Earth objects.”

NOTE: Are you interested in going to the Miami Map Fair or a trip to London? We'll talk about both possibilities at this month's meeting.

Meeting Summary:

Charlie Ridgway's power point talk outlined the exhaustive amount of data astronomers have to interpret to locate the best geographical location to witness occultations, and how the astronomical community's use of maps to that end has changed in recent years, particularly with the advent of internet mapping applications, was very impressive.

Charlie and his cool buddies around the world are joined in a collaborative effort to be in the best spot to record lunar and asteroidal occultations. They first calculate the best geographical location and then race to the spot. With the data they gather they can then identify double stars and scientists can calculate the shapes of Near Earth Objects and their orbits.

Charlie also talked about some of the huge craters on earth that were caused and could be caused in the future by asteroids and meteors when they strike our planet. The collision can result in catastrophic changes in climate and mass extinction of living organisms. He told us of several proposed plans for preventing the catastrophe by slightly changing the orbit of the object or even blowing it up.

Sy Amkraut opened the meeting in Classroom B at NYPL at 2:45 to allow time for those stuck in traffic to attend. We had an attendance of 20.

The following handouts were available:

• Copies of two recent articles from the Times about NYC maps,
• The Fall/Winter 2006-07 Map Classes at NYPL. Online info is available at: http://nypl.org/research/calender/class/hssl/schedule.cf
• The Miami International Map Fair. For info: mapfair@historical-museum.org
• The Cummings Nov.3-4th symposium at Chapel Hll, NC, “Maps for the New Nation.” http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/maps
• A copy of the recently sent list of names, e-mail address and area of interest for each member. Members were encouraged to amend, add or delete information for a more accurate e-mail list that will be e-mailed shortly.

Heather Kinsinger described a number of excellent field trips that are available to us in the New York metropolitan area. No action was taken.

We welcomed new member Edwin Sapp, who found us on our web site. Cathe Guffani informed us that she has received checks from eight other new members.

John Woram told us about his new web site about forgeries and fakes. http://www.galapagos.to/fakes/

The meeting was adjourned after Charlie's talk.

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August, 2006

The New York Map Society did not meet in August.

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July 15^th, 2006

The City Hall Area from Indian Village to Skyscraper

The New York Map Society and the Map Division of the New York Public Library are pleased to sponsor a walking tour of New York's City Hall Park area. The tour will show the changes of geographical features and human transformation over the ages. For example, we'll see:

• Amerindian Village of Werpoes,
• African Burial Ground,
• Collect Pond,
• 19th century Five Points,
• Skyscrapers of newspaper row,
• 20th century Foley Square.

The tour will be conducted by Dr. Philip E. Schoenberg, a New York Map Society member and adjunct professor of American History at Borough of Manhattan Community College. For further information, please telephone (718) 591-4741. The fee is $15.

Meeting place is inside Blimpie's Restaurant.
38 Park Row, between Spruce & Beekman Streets (opposite City Hall Park)

Map showing 38 Park Row

Meeting Summary:

Ten of us met this morning for a two-hour plus walking tour of the City Hall Park area, conducted by New York Map Society member Dr. Philip E. Schoenberg, an adjunct professor of American History at nearby Borough of Manhattan Community College.

It was truly a rewarding experience. We were shown the changes in geographical features and told about the human transformation of the area over the ages: the Amerindian village of Werpoes, the African Burial Ground, George Washington's Collect Pond, the 19th century Five Points, early 20th century skyscrapers, newspaper row, 20th century Foley Square and the maps inlaid into the pavement at the south end of City Hall park. We learned interesting information about the residents. Stories about Boss Tweed and how and why The New York Times was out to “get” him, about why the purchase from the Amerindians of Manhattan by the Dutch was fraudulent, about why the huge statue of Justice is missing her blindfold, all about the subway system, the water system, etc. Each of us received an 18-page handout with maps and photos that we used to follow the discussion. A copy of this handout will be on file at the New York Public Library, together with a copy of Phil's 71-page City Hall Area Geography.

Dr. Schoenberg's feature article Evolution of City Hall Park and Foley Square offers some historical background details about the area.

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June 10^th, 2006

The meeting was held at the Arader Gallery at 1016 Madison Ave. Members who arrived early viewed extremely interesting and rare antiquarian maps that adorned the walls of each floor and were in drawers on the fourth floor.

Sy Amkraut opened the meeting at 2:30 PM to about 30 members, and reported that John Woram had agreed to reactivate our newsletter The Rhumb Line. The newsletter will be posted on the New York Map Society's web site, and members are invited to submit articles to be considered for publication.

Plans for future field trips and presentations were discussed, and Sy requested members to e-mail him their areas of interest in cartography so he could include the information in the upcoming membership list that he is preparing to distribute to the membership.

Graham Arader then told us about experiences he had in his 35 years in the map trade. It was an informative and entertaining story. At the end of Graham's formal presentation, some members met at Serafina's restaurant for a late social luncheon, while others remained behind to chat with Graham about the Gallery and his other interests.

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May 13^th, 2006

President Sy Amkraut opened the meeting of the New York Map Society in the South Court classrooms of the NYPL at 2:30 PM, with an attendance of 22.

The next meeting, on Saturday June 10th at 2:30PM will be held at the Graham Arader Gallery located at 1016 Madison Ave, between 78th & 79th St. Those who come early will have the opportunity to view the maps and prints that adorn the walls of this 2-story Beaux Art building. Graham will tell us of “My 35 Years in the Map Business.” After the meeting we will adjourn to Serafina Fabulous Pizza at 1022 Madison.

This a members-only event. Bring your $20 membership fee and join us on June 10th.

Sy informed us that he would only send e-mail invitations to paid up members and to those others that made a specific request. However, the information would be available on our web site.

We were informed of David Rumsey's lecture, “Thinking Locally, Mapping Globally” on Monday, May 22nd and of the Swann auction that would be held on Thursday June 15th at 10:30 AM.

We agreed to plan for a Field Trip in July. We will not meet in August. Charlie Ridgway will tell us about asteroids at our September meeting. It will include some very dramatic visuals from NASA.

It was agreed that all paid up members be given a list of the names of the entire membership with their e-mail addresses. No one objected to having their name on the list.

Heather Kinsinger gave a report on the progress of our web site.

John Woram in his presentation, “The Virtual Map Collector,” demonstrated how it is possible to put our personal map collections on a web site or on a hard drive and manipulate the images in very interesting ways.

The meeting was adjourned about 4 PM.

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April 8^th, 2006

At 2:30 pm Sy Amkraut opened the meeting and Heather Kinsinger read the minutes from the previous meeting. We had an attendance of 14.

Sy asked for suggestions for field trips.

Fred Shauger will try to arrange a visit to the Graham Arader Gallery at 29 E. 72nd St., New York, NY.

Heather Kinsinger will contact the American Map Company in Maspeth, Queens.

Alice Hudson suggested a visit to the Swann Galleries later this year. She also suggested a trip to the New York Historical Society's library.

Mike Starr suggested a group trip and joint meeting with the Washington Map Society. He will look into the possibility.

Sy informed us that we still had not informed over 60 members of the reactivation of the Society because we did not have their e-mail addresses. Mike Starr volunteered to supply Miklos Pinter's e-mail address. Sy agreed to inform all others by snail mail before the next meeting.

On the subject of having meetings during July and August, Alice reminded us that the Society normally doesn't meet during those months.

Sy Amkraut then introduced Wendy Brawer. Wendy discussed her nonprofit organization, Greenmap.org. She made a video presentation to encourage economically-sustainable green projects using maps. We all applauded her talk, the work she is doing and personal commitment she has brought to this effort.

The meeting was then adjourned at 4 pm.