Osher Map Library News Today

'A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America' is on view in Portland through June 29.

Osher, whose world-renowned map collection is housed at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, died Saturday.

As he wound down his medical career, Harold Osher rekindled a childhood interest in maps and made one of the world's finest collections.

See Britian's The Len Price 3 in Portland on Thursday.

Digitally preserving venerable, old pictures, documents and artifacts is Kristen Gwinn-Becker's business as founding CEO of HistoryIT.

Lynn is joined today with Susan, as usual, and their nephew Louis Miller who is a Cartography Reference and Teaching Librarian at the Osher Map...

The Osher Map Library has selected Lucie Hollan from the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to be one of the final Top Twelve in their annual Illustrated Mapmaking Contest. Students were invited to illustrate an original, creative, and...

KENNEBUNK Fashion exhibit promotes global health The Brick Store Museum will open its new summer exhibition, “Wrapped in Blue: Fashions to Promote Global Health,” Tuesday at 117 Main St. The museum worked with curation partner organization Partners for World Health to exhibit 11 fashions made completely of “blue wrap,” the polypropylene fabric used in hospitals […]

USM's Osher Map Library offers an exhibit on the Northeast's textile mills, including Bates Manufacturing in Lewiston, whose economic power for 100 years changed life in scores of cities and towns.

The Greater Portland Chapter of the Maine Genealogical Society is offering a free online (Zoom) meeting on Saturday, Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. The guest speaker will by Roberta Ransley-Matteau of the Osher Map Library who will present “Getting By: The Immigrant Working Class on Main Street in Biddeford, 1880-1932.” The program is about immigrant […]