Also included are tourist maps, such as the popular Cook's Tours, that helped define the West as a tourist destination. Heading West comprises approximately 175 objects drawn primarily from the Map Division's collection of 6,000 sheet maps and atlases of the American West, supplemented by materials from the General Research Division, the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History, and Genealogy, and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Included in the exhibition are maps by renowned cartographers such as John Arrowsmith, Baron Von Egloffstein, and G.K. Warren alongside maps published by the U.S. War Department and the Army Corps of Engineers and maps created for the Railroad Survey. Mapmakers, Performing Artists, and the American Frontier is the companion volume for Heading West and its complementary exhibition, Touring West. Neglected American Explorer and Mapmaker Stephen H. Long and His Rocky Mountain Expedition, 1819-1820.
Admission is free.
Admission is free.