Dedham's Place in the History of Bird's-Eye-View Maps: Speaker Series: April

Name: Dedham's Place in the History of Bird's-Eye-View Maps: Speaker Series: April
Start: April 16, 2025
End: 2025-02-12
Location: Dedham Museum & Archive (Dedham Historical Society)

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April 16, 2025 - Wednesday - 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Cost/Tickets/Registration

Speaker John Roman, contemporary map illustrator and author of The Art of Illustrated Maps (2015 Simon & Schuster /HOW Books), will discuss the popular, historic city- and town-view panoramic maps of the 1800s . . . with particular attention on Edwin Whitefield’s 1876 perspective view of Dedham, Mass. The evolution and process of the 19th-century’s bird’s-eye-view industry will be explored, as will Whitefield’s prolific career (1816-1892) as a landscape painter, architectural illustrator, botanical artist, and lithographer. Whitefield’s legacy of recording the charm of daily life in his art and maps will be honored though this pictorial presentation.

The April talk is preceded by the Dedham Museum & Archive’s Annual Meeting at 6:00 p.m. Members are invited and all are welcome. The talk will begin at 7:00 p.m., as usual.

Members Free
Non-Members: $10 (for the talk).
Purchase non-member entry through Venmo: @DedhamMuseumArchive, PayPal/Credit Card, or at the door.

This talk will be recorded and broadcast as the Third Thursday Webinar.
Register here for the webinar only , Thursday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m.

Location

Dedham Museum & Archive (Dedham Historical Society)
612 High Street
Dedham, MA 02026

Directions/Transportation/Parking

Street parking along High Street and at the Eastern Avenue free lot.

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Dedham Museum & Archive (Dedham Historical Society)

For more information

https://www.dedhammuseum.org/programs-events/speaker-webinar-series/