Hey everyone! This is just a reminder that at 7pm tonight, the renowned map collector William C. Wooldridge is launching his new book at an event right here at The Mariners’ Museum! Published by the University of Virginia Press, Wooldridge’s Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War contains hundreds of maps and represents [...]
Hello again readers, and welcome back to the library’s blog. As I write this post, OpSail 2012 is drawing to a close in Norfolk, Virginia. This past weekend was a celebration of the maritime heritage and culture that is shared by so many nations of the world. The United States had proud representatives in the [...]
Recently we have been blogging about the effort to conserve and reconstruct the historic steamship United States. The ship, which was built right here in Newport News, has a special connection to this community. One Christopher Newport University student is taking this connection to heart. Sophomore Andrew Jelonek, a history major and avid fan of [...]
I left you in my last post with the purchase of the S.S. United States by the SS United States Conservancy in the summer of 2010. The Conservancy had saved the historic vessel from the scrapyard, but what do they plan to do with the ship? The donations from the “Save Our Ship” campaign allowed the [...]
We have commented in these pages on the great privilege it was to exhibit some of the Library’s beautiful charts of the Chesapeake Bay at the Library of Virginia for the Vorhees Lecture of the Fry-Jefferson Map Society. The lecture took place last Saturday Mar. 31, and we worked diligently last week to select examples [...]
Lately many of my blog posts have been about maritime news, particularly the Costa Concordia disaster. While these stories are very important, I am pleased to be able to share with you readers some exciting news. The Mariners’ Museum Library has been granted the great honor of displaying some of our rare maps and charts at [...]
Join us at the Library at noon on November 2 for this month’s Secrets in the Stacks. Library Director Mary Sellen will discuss the 1660 atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. The presentation will focus on the 20 maps from this title that are in the Library’s collections. Topics will include cosmology, geography, printing, and art. Be sure [...]
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday September 7, at noon for this this month’s Secrets in the Stacks. Tom Moore, Senior Curator of Photography and Photo Archivist, will share the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation Collection. This extraordinary collection of photographs visually illustrates the role of Newport News as one of the major military Ports of Embarkation [...]
The Mariners’ Museum Library invites you for a walk into the museum’s past. Please join Jennifer Anielski for a Secrets in the Stacks that will have you saying, “ I remember when …” as we look at photographs of the museum and park from yesteryear. As an added bonus, a few faces of the past [...]
You may not have heard of him yet, but William Willis was one of the world’s original extreme sportsmen, a man driven by a relentless passion for personal challenge and an inexhaustible capacity for facing adversity. From carrying out an improbable rescue in the jungles of French Guiana to embarking upon multiple crossings of the [...]
