{"id":1835155,"date":"2024-11-30T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1835155"},"modified":"2024-11-30T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:40:00","slug":"alice-hudson-1947-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/11\/alice-hudson-1947-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Hudson, 1947-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alice Hudson, who from 1981 to 2009 was chief of the New York Public Library\u2019s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division<\/a>, and as such responsible for one of the world\u2019s significant map collections, died on 6 November 2024 from complications of kidney disease. She was 77. The New York Times<\/em> published her obituary<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alice Hudson, who from 1981 to 2009 was chief of the New York Public Library\u2019s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, and as such responsible for one of the world\u2019s significant map collections, died… 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":[48,47],"class_list":["post-1835155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-libraries","tag-nypl","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1368,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/encountering-map-dealers-hudson-arader\/","url_meta":{"origin":1835155,"position":0},"title":"Encountering Map Dealers: Hudson, Arader","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Atlas Obscura\u00a0profiles map\u00a0collector and dealer Murray Hudson. \"Today, Murray Hudson owns what is said to be the largest private collection of for-sale antique maps, prints and globes in the world. 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