Becky Cooper Knihy

Armed with blank maps that she printed by hand, Becky Cooper hit New York City, she handed strangers she met the gray outline of their island and asked them to map their Manhattan. Mapping Manhattan includes 75 maps from both anonymous mapmakers and from notable New Yorkers, and will also contain a blank map that can be filled out by the reader.

1969: the height of counterculture; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.