UVa Library Press Room
Lewis & Clark Exhibition
"The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814"
Contact: Charlotte Morford Scott at (434) 924-4254 or cwm6z@virginia.edu
Summary
Click here for the press release about the Library's latest exhibit, an exhibition of maps that Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark would have studied in preparation for the journey. The exhibition shows the evolution of how cartographers imagined the American West and is part of the University's Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project .
Images
Here are images and captions with downloadable files. Please contact Charlotte Scott if you have trouble downloading the format you want.
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Nicolas Sanson. Amerique Septentrionale. 1669. From Special Collections, University
of Virginia Library. Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814
book cover image courtesy of Howell Publishing. Shows California as an island but is also the first map to show all five of the Great Lakes. This image is also the cover of the exhibit catalog. |
web
(72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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"A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track" in History of the Expedition
under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. Paul Allen, editor. Philadelphia,1814.
From Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
The map published in official accounts of the trip: shows the Missouri River's connection to the Columbia River basin, thereby extinguishing the idea of a Northwest Passage to the Far East |
web
(72dpi)
newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
Interview Contacts
Interviews with the exhibition curator and Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Project directors are available. Please contact Charlotte Scott for arrangements.
More Links
Online version of exhibition: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark
University's Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark
Other Special Collections exhibitions available online: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits
