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 Denton Public Library—North Branch at 940.349.8200.
July 1–31, 2014
Map
Le Nouveau Mexique et La Floride, by the first Royal Geographer of France, 1656. Ragsdale Collection.