{"id":1789168,"date":"2020-08-26T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789168"},"modified":"2020-08-26T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:35:25","slug":"smithsonian-magazine-explores-the-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/08\/smithsonian-magazine-explores-the-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian Magazine Explores the Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> has a very good piece summing up the case of the Carnegie Library rare book and map thefts<\/a>, coverage of which has made regular appearances<\/a> here on The Map Room. In 2017 Pittsburgh\u2019s Carnegie Library discovered that more than 300 rare books, maps and other items, worth around $8 million, had been stolen from their collection<\/a>. Library archivist Greg Priore, who had physical access to the items, and bookseller John Schulman, who acted as his fence, were eventually arrested and charged<\/a>; they pled guilty<\/a> to a reduced set of charges last January. With everything that\u2019s been happening, I missed their sentencing last June; the Smithsonian<\/em> piece provides the details: Priore was sentenced to three years of house arrest and 12 years of probation, Schulman to four years of house arrest and 12 years of probation, sentences that some consider unconscionably light.<\/p>\n

Previously: 314 Rare Books and Maps Stolen from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh<\/a>; New Details Emerging in Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts<\/a>; Arrests Made in Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts<\/a>; Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Theft Update<\/a>; Priore, Schulman Plead Guilty to Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine has a very good piece summing up the case of the Carnegie Library rare book and map thefts, coverage of which has made regular appearances here on The Map… 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":[48,264,1064,1247],"class_list":["post-1789168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-map-thefts","tag-pittsburgh","tag-priore-schulman","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788196,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/priore-schulman-plead-guilty-to-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789168,"position":0},"title":"Priore, Schulman Plead Guilty to Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 January 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Between 1992 and 2017, more than 300 rare books, maps and other items were stolen from Pittsburgh\u2019s Carnegie Library. News of the thefts broke in April 2018, and in July of that year former Carnegie Library archivist Gregory Priore and rare book seller John Schulman were arrested and charged. Yesterday\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":1786008,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/arrests-made-in-pittsburgh-rare-book-and-map-thefts\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789168,"position":1},"title":"Arrests Made in Pittsburgh Rare Book and Map Thefts","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Arrests have been made in the case of the rare books and maps stolen from the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, the New York Times and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. 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