Vicki Ferrini

Library of Congress

Thursday, November 21, 2024, 11:30 pm EST
Thomas Jefferson Building - LJ 11910 1st Street SE, Washington, DC 20540

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Celebrate Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day at the Library of Congress. The Library’s celebration includes a talk by Vicki Ferrini of Columbia University on the history of ocean mapping, a display of oceanic collection items, and interactive games and activities that explore map-making and navigation through the centuries.

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Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas

Red poppy, or Papaver rhoeas, from an unpublished manuscript titled English medical botany : or coloured figures of British medical plants with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth, to which are added occasional remarks, by Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., 1822. Image courtesy of Yale University.