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Map Collection
WACG Collection
Alex Powers
Alice Ballard Munn
Allen Taylor
Betty Anglin Smith
Carl Blair
Chet Goff
Chica Brunsvold
Darell Koons
Dixie Dugan
Eva Carter
John Gore
Martha Thomas.htm
Mack Miller
Perrin Lawson
Pete Przekop
Steve Jordon
Sigmund Abeles
Map Collection
This collection was a 1999 gift to the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B.
Chapin Art Museum from the George J. Bishop Family. George and Dorothy
Bishop, who are known in Myrtle Beach for their development of the former
shoppers' paradise Waccamaw Pottery, began collecting antique maps and
prints of the Carolinas in 1987. The 30 pieces in the Collection date
from 1606 to 1863 and include historic gems such as a map of Horry
District (1825) by Robert Mills who is regarded as the United States'
first architect, a hand-drawn map of Charleston Harbor (1861) during
the Civil War, and the map Mark Catesby included in his celebrated
Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands (1731).
The Bishop Collection also has historic prints of regional interest,
such as engravings of Francis Marion and Charleston-area Civil War scenes
from Harper's Weekly. Viewers of this collection delight in the artistic
appeal of the maps and prints, as well as their historic significance.
The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
3100 South Ocean Boulevard
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
phone 843.238.2510
fax 843.238.2910
artmuseum@sc.rr.com