{"id":1824187,"date":"2024-01-11T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1824187"},"modified":"2024-01-11T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T00:23:24","slug":"harold-l-osher-1924-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/01\/harold-l-osher-1924-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold L. Osher, 1924-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harold L. Osher died on 23 December 2023<\/a> at the age of 99. (Today would have been his 100th birthday.) He and his wife Peggy (who died in 2018<\/a>) amassed a sizeable map collection, which they then donated to the University of Southern Maine; they went on to donate to and campaign for the map library that would bear their name<\/a>. More: Maine Public Radio<\/a>, WCSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harold L. Osher died on 23 December 2023 at the age of 99. (Today would have been his 100th birthday.) He and his wife Peggy (who died in 2018) amassed a sizeable map collection, which… 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":[581],"tags":[129,447],"class_list":["post-1824187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-maine","tag-osher","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1840818,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/05\/the-osher-map-librarys-2025-illustrated-mapmaking-contest-for-maine-elementary-students\/","url_meta":{"origin":1824187,"position":0},"title":"The Osher Map Library\u2019s 2025 Illustrated Mapmaking Contest for Maine Elementary Students","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 May 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"The Osher Map Library\u2019s illustrated mapmaking contest for elementary school students has been a thing since 2016. For the 2025 contest, some 350 entries from Maine fourth, fifth and sixth graders were received. They\u2019ve been narrowed down to twelve finalists; the winners, who get prizes, will be determined by public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art"","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1808238,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/new-osher-exhibition-vacationland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1824187,"position":1},"title":"New Osher Exhibition: Vacationland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 July 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Vacationland: Mapping History in Maine, the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education\u2019s latest exhibition, \u201clooks at tourism through the lens of travel and transportation, quite literally the mapping of tourism in Maine from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. This exhibition invites you to think about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Tourist Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Tourist Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/tourist-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Banner image for the Osher Map Library\u2019s exhibition, Vacationland","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/osher-vacationland-1024x512.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/osher-vacationland-1024x512.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/osher-vacationland-1024x512.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/osher-vacationland-1024x512.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1703,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/a-look-at-the-osher-map-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1824187,"position":2},"title":"A Look at the Osher Map Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Edgar Allen Beem's essay in the May\/June issue of\u00a0Humanities serves as a good introduction to the\u00a0Osher Map Library, a major map collection housed\u00a0at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. 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The opening was also broadcast live on YouTube; if you missed it,\u00a0the archived video can be watched there. And if you can't get to Portland Maine,\u00a0The exhibition's\u00a0companion website is now live,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"John Murray, Map Shewing the Discoveries Made by British Officers in the Arctic Region, 1828. Map, 41.5 \u00d7 52 cm. 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