Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood

In the Governor’s Gallery at the State Capitol

Jan 5, 2012 through May 4, 2012

From a Spanish government that never quite knew where to draw its northern colony’s borders to a Mexican government that disagreed with where the lines eventually were drawn to a Texas Republic that wanted to claim the Rio Grande, Santa Fe, and much of eastern New Mexico, the U.S. government eventually managed to carve out the trusty rectangle we now know as New Mexico.

Between the Lines: Culture and Cartography on the Road to Statehood opens Thursday, January 5 and will be on view through May 4, 2012, in the Governor’s Gallery on the fourth floor of the state Capitol. The exhibition, part of the state’s 2012 Centennial celebration, explores explores how cartographers interpreted New Mexico’s land, its physical and political boundaries, and the cultural minglings of Native, Spanish, Mexican, and American people.

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Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova

Provincia de Nuevo Mexico

Three-dimensional map

Recreational Map of New Mexico

Presentation of the World Circle

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway map

1873 Map of the Territory of New Mexico

New Mexico Standard Oil Map

Le Nouveau Mexique appelé aussi Nouvelle Grenade et Marata

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