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Upcoming Exhibitions
Military Mapping Maidens
March 5 - November 14, 2027
This traveling exhibition, created by Museum Pros, LLC, features the story of 224 young women who were recruited by the Army Map Service in 1943 to research and draw maps by hand for the Allied war effort in World War II. The exhibit is narrated through the personal experiences of Bea Shaheen McPherson, a Kent State University alum, who was encouraged to take a 60-credit hour course in cartography. Completion of the course, designed by pioneering female cartographer Edith Putnam Parker and taught at Kent State by Professor Edna Eisen, opened the door for McPherson to apply for civil service employment with the Army Map Service, which today has grown in the National Geospatial - Intelligence Agency.