The African Historical Graphics Archive

Sebastian Munster – Totius Africae tabula & descriptio uniuersalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa. Basel. 1542

[Compare with:]

Sebastian Munster – Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova, Complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Enarrationis Libros VIII.  Basel 1540

The African Historical Graphics Archive is designed to record, conserve and present historical maps and graphic images of Africa and its peoples for advanced scholarship, public exhibition and curriculum development on African history throughout the world.

T.C. Weiskel, Research Director

Presentation to the Africana Librarians at Boston University

[Slides & Illustrations from presentation]

For background material on problems of meta-description in the electronic cataloging of digital material see:

• “Some Historical Sources on the Impact of Electronic Librarianship Upon Scholarly Research:  The Need for a Coordinated Bibliographic Protocol (1985-91)”

Background:

See related

• Harvard University – History Design Studio – 2019 Group Exhibit – Maps, Stones & Plants…”
• Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade [Directory web page.]
• ‘My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves’ – BBC News
• Recalling Some Aspects of America’s Immigration Policies in Black History Month | EV & N – 238 – CCTV
• A Tribute to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. …a Cambridge~Global Living Legend
• Old Maps & New Narratives: Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade
• The Globalization of Food Production and the Origins of Africa’s Food Crisis
• Castles and Dungeons on the Coasts and Islands: Retracing Some Steps in the Atlantic Trade
• The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch – Part 1
• The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch – Part 2
• Old Maps, Picks and Shovels: Steps Toward An Archaeology of the Atlantic Slave Trade 
• Historical Cartography and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Trade

as well as selected related topics in the digital humanities:

• History in the Digital Age: New Technologies, New Data, New Insights, New Questions
  
• Preservation and Access: Rare & Valuable Historical Documents in the Age of the iTech
• The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory
• From Gallery to Reality (… and Back): The Display of Art and the Art of Display in the Digital Age

Lecture – Dr. Judith Carney – Boston, African Studies Association event at Afriterra, 22 November 2019

See also a selection of African cartographic collections linked together for research and teaching through “The Africa Map Circle” including the Bodleian Library in Oxford and numerous important university and private map collections in the United States:

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