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Two months after an antique map dealer was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison for stealing millions of dollars worth of rare maps, including 20 from Yale, the University is ...
was caught on a security camera tearing a colorful world map from an atlas in Yale’s rare books library. The inventory was finished in February, but Yale withheld the results, waiting for the ...
Smiley made off with $2.3 million in antique maps from Yale, Harvard, the New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, the British Library and the Newberry Library in Chicago. His arrest in ...
Marx Library is also home to Yale’s contemporary map collections, complementing the university library’s extensive collection of older and rare maps housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript ...
The man was E. Forbes Smiley III, a rare-map dealer, forty-nine years old, tall and stocky. The library was the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University. Smiley entered at the ...
“The Vinland Map is a fake,” said Raymond Clemens, curator of early books and manuscripts at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which houses the map. “There is no reasonable doubt here.
Genoni said she particularly enjoyed taking advantage of Yale’s many different libraries and departments. “You normally can’t see something from the map collection and the Beinecke and the Walpole in ...
The detailed map, punctuated by the dancers at the Savoy ... Library continues at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (121 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut) through ...
Yale now says someone duped a lot of people. “The Vinland Map is a fake,” Raymond Clemens, the curator of early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale ...