April 6, 2017–October 15, 2019
Briscoe Center for American History, Austin, Texas
Weatherby Gallery
Some of the finest examples from the late T. Karman Weatherby’s collection of more than 4,000 maps, engravings, and related materials, donated to the Briscoe Center by his family in 2013, are now available to researchers. The selections for this rotating exhibit showed visual evidence of changing national borders and state boundaries in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries, and the growth of Texas through the Republic era and into statehood. These examples vividly illustrate ways in which nations and states viewed themselves geographically and across time, and how mapmakers and publishers chose to communicate a sense of place and population.
