The Portolan

Issue #27 - Spring 1993

ARTICLES

The Articulate Traveler: Johann Georg Kohl and American Historical Geography. By Michael P. Conzen.

Civil War Mapping. A summary by Charlie Schwarz of the joint presentation to the Society of Peter Roper and John Knoerl.

Women in Mapmaking. A summary by Michael Miller of a presentation to the Society by Alice Hudson.

Corcoran School of Art: Etching and Engraving. A summary by Jim Gearhart of a talk and demonstration to the Society by Scip Barnhart.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

A regular feature in The Portolan, this is a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography. By Eric W. Wolf.

SHORTER ITEMS

1. Washington Map Society Summer Get-Together – August 1993.

2. Exhibitions and Meetings, July 1993 - May 1994.

3. The Write Way. Guest Editorial by Walter W. Ristow.

4. Washington Map Society Officers and Board for 1993-1994.

5. Opening of Competition for First Annual Walter W. Ristow Prize for Cartographic History and Map Librarianship (Washington Map Society).

6. Travels: Encounters with Elena S. Pini and Sigfried Feller.