This program is not reflected in the library's map division because it is still taking shape.
"We do not have a rare-book mentality in this map division."
The map division is undergoing renovations and will reopen in December.
Family Vacation's primary interest was a travel magazine published by General Drafting, not the map division, which the new owner said was a money loser.
He noted that General Drafting's map division had relied heavily on a contract with Exxon.
The old maps on the shelves of the library's geography and map division pulled me again into cartography's rich past.
In 1970, at 23, Ms. Hudson started to work for the map division, a place where curiosity can sweep one away.
On display are more than 50 maps and atlases from the New York Public Library's map division.
Browse the maps clicking in a map division to see its name.
In 1997, she was honored by the Library of Congress as part of the 100th anniversary of its geography and map division.
