LOAN EXHIBIT

The 2009 loan exhibit features colonial and early American maps of Rhode Island’s landscape from the collections of the Newport Historical Society. Learn about Newport’s early history through this never before seen exhibition which includes the 1770's Charles Blaskowitz map.

On display this year in a loan exhibit entitled “Delimiting the Land” are eight maps from the NHS collections. Included are Samuel Easton’s manuscript record of land plots in Westerly (1735), a map originally drawn by John Speed in England and printed there in 1676 depicting the wild frontier of New England, and an artistically rendered 1748 map of Daniel Gould’s farm in Middletown. Also on display will be the NHS’s copy of the 1777 Blaskowitz map of downtown Newport, an embroidered map of the colonies, and a plan of Aquidneck Island’s 19th century coal mine.

Loan Exhibit Presentation
Saturday, August 8, 2009 11am

Paper conservator Elizabeth Coombs will discuss her work restoring the maps in the loan exhibit as well as general preservation techniques of paper-based objects. She will conclude the program by answering questions about how individuals can preserve paper antiques.

The presentation will take place in the exhibit space at 11am and will last about 45 minutes.