Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of the American Southwest
Exhibition
Based on an exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum and The University of Texas at Arlington Library, this Humanities Texas traveling exhibition spans the mapmaking enterprise, beginning with the earliest known map to show the Texas edge of the Gulf (1512) and ending with an 1873 map of Texas showing the right of way granted to railroads. For more information, please contact the Rice County Historical Society at 620.257.3941.
May 22–
June 19, 2014
June 19, 2014
Rice County Historical Society
105 West Lyons
Lyons, KS 67554
105 West Lyons
Lyons, KS 67554
Map
Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride, by the first Royal Geographer of France, 1656. Ragsdale Collection.