{"id":1788390,"date":"2020-02-10T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788390"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:16:50","slug":"major-collection-of-revolutionary-maps-donated-to-mount-vernon-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/major-collection-of-revolutionary-maps-donated-to-mount-vernon-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Collection of Revolutionary Maps Donated to Mount Vernon Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Lewis Evans, “A general map of the middle British colonies, in America” (1755). Map, 49 \u00d7 65 cm. Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection, Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mount Vernon\u2019s library is the recipient of a major donation<\/a> of 18th-century maps, images and other documents pertaining to the American Revolution that is valued at around $12 million. The Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection<\/a>, named for the private collector who donated them, features more than 1,000 items dating from between 1740 and 1799. Of those items, 292 have been digitized so far<\/a>. Mount Vernon\u2019s Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington<\/a> took possession of most of the donation last month. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mount Vernon\u2019s library is the recipient of a major donation of 18th-century maps, images and other documents pertaining to the American Revolution that is valued at around $12 million. The Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19,142,48,143,158],"class_list":["post-1788390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1700s","tag-american-revolution","tag-libraries","tag-thirteen-colonies","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":409,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/mapping-the-american-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the American Revolution","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The National Geographic website\u00a0has\u00a0an interview with Richard H. Brown\u00a0and Paul E. Cohen, authors of\u00a0Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783\u00a0(W. W. Norton, October 2015). In the interview, Brown\u00a0says\u00a0that \"some of the best collections of Revolutionary War maps have been among the least used. Historians tended to use the same\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"revolution","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/revolution-138x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":608,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/01\/we-are-one-in-colonial-williamsburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":1},"title":"‘We Are One’ in Colonial Williamsburg","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 January 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"We Are One: Mapping\u00a0America's Road from Revolution to Independence, an exhibition by\u00a0the Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center (it ran from May to November last year) is going on tour. First stop: Colonial Williamsburg. From\u00a0March 2016 to January 2017 it will appear at the\u00a0DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum\u00a0in Williamsburg, Virginia.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4395,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/05\/mapping-in-the-enlightenment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":2},"title":"Mapping in the Enlightenment","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 May 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Mapping in the Enlightenment: Science, Innovation, and the Public Sphere, an exhibition at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library, \"uses examples from the Clements Library collection to tell the story of creating, distributing, and using maps during the long 18th century. Enlightenment thinking stimulated the effort to make\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mapping-enlightenment-crop-179x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6036,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/11\/gift-guide-map-books-of-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":3},"title":"Gift Guide: Map Books of 2015","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"At about this time of the year I assemble a gift guide that lists some of the noteworthy books about maps that have been published this year. It's by no means a comprehensive list, but if someone in your life is just a little bit obsessed about maps (and if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Gift Guides"","block_context":{"text":"Gift Guides","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/gift-guides\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1806723,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/the-fitz-globe\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":4},"title":"The Fitz Globe","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 April 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Last month on the Library of Congress\u2019s map blog, Worlds Revealed, Julie Stoner shared the story of an educational globe with a unique mount invented by author and teacher Ellen Eliza Fitz. \u201cWhile working as a governess, Fitz imagined a new globe mounting technique, as seen in the globe above,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fitz Globe (Library of Congress)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/fitz-globe-218x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4373,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/maps-and-empire-new-books\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788390,"position":5},"title":"Maps and Empire: New Books","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Three\u00a0academic books out this month deal with the subject of mapping, surveying, and empire-building: The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence by S. Max Edelson (Harvard University Press) covers the period between the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution. From the publisher: Under orders from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History"","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/new-map-of-empire-99x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788393,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788390\/revisions\/1788393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}