Surveying Northeastern Pennsylvania: Contextualizing the Flower-Walker Collection at the Tioga Point Museum

IF 0.3 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI:10.1080/15420353.2018.1468847
John J. Swab, Todd M. Babcock
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Local museums and historical societies often hold rare and unique cartographic resources that compliment larger map collections. A prime example of this is the Flower-Walker Collection at the Tioga Point Museum in Athens Pennsylvania. The museum holds a collection of over 800 hand-drawn, manuscript maps that depict in detail the development of Pennsylvania’s upper Susquehanna Valley from 1790 to 1940, a formative time period of land speculation and development in the United States’ history. The Flower-Walker collection is unique in that all maps in the collection come from a single family of surveyors who played a central role in documenting the settlement of the land. The Flower-Walker family’s rich tradition of surveying and commitment to preserving regional history, make this cartographic collection an exquisite case study of land speculation and development during the middle of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries of U.S. history.
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调查宾夕法尼亚州东北部:Tioga Point博物馆的花行者系列的背景
当地的博物馆和历史学会经常拥有稀有和独特的地图资源,以补充更多的地图收藏。宾夕法尼亚州雅典的泰奥加角博物馆(Tioga Point Museum)的Flower-Walker藏品就是一个典型的例子。该博物馆收藏了800多幅手绘、手稿地图,详细描绘了1790年至1940年宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎哈纳河谷上游的发展,这是美国历史上土地投机和发展的形成时期。Flower-Walker系列的独特之处在于,该系列中的所有地图都来自一个测量师家族,他们在记录这片土地的定居过程中发挥了核心作用。弗劳-沃克家族丰富的测量传统和对保存地区历史的承诺,使这个地图收藏成为18至19世纪中期美国历史上土地投机和发展的精美案例研究。
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Journal of Map & Geography Libraries
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is a multidisciplinary publication that covers international research and information on the production, procurement, processing, and utilization of geographic and cartographic materials and geospatial information. Papers submitted undergo a rigorous peer-review process by professors, researchers, and practicing librarians with a passion for geography, cartographic materials, and the mapping and spatial sciences. The journal accepts original theory-based, case study, and practical papers that substantially advance an understanding of the mapping sciences in all of its forms to support users of map and geospatial collections, archives, and similar institutions.
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