Maine Historical Society - Programs Podcast

Speaker: Matthew Edney, Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine; Recorded January 22, 2015 - Matthew Edney, Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine, uses the collections of the Maine Historical Society and USM’s Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education to analyze urban maps as cultural documents and interpret Portland’s spatial history from the colonial era through the nineteenth century. Early maps of Portland manifest the duality of Portland, as a conventional city and a port city. View Slides (PDF) as you listen to podcast .