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83. Deák, Gloria-Gilda. “Picturing America, 1492-1899.” Vol. 13 no.2, (Autumn 1988), 1-76.
This issue of Imprint serves as the catalog for an exhibition of prints, maps, and drawings at the New York Public Library October 29, 1988 to February 18, 1989. The introduction discusses early cartographers; the print room of the Library; I.N. Phelps Stokes, the creator of the collection; and the history of printmaking in the United States. The catalog lists and reproduces eighty-two items. The subject matter of each is well described. A selective bibliography is included.