![Map of the world drawn by Giovanni Vespucci, nephew of America Vespucci, in 1526. At the Hispanic Society, NYC.](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Giovanni-Vespucci-map.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1)
Map of the world drawn by Giovanni Vespucci, nephew of Amerigo Vespucci, in 1526. At the Hispanic Society, NYC. Researching old manuscripts for a project for Acoma Pueblo and found this lovely old map hanging on the wall in the reading room.
![Astrolabe, 1450, in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Used to chart the stars and calculate time centuries before the clock.](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_2644.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1)
Astrolabe, 1450, in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Used to chart the stars and calculate time centuries before the clock.
![Lawlor family in New Vernon, NJ, just before sailing to Germany, February 1965 (L-R Frannie, Jack, Lizzie, Sarah, Nancy, Mary](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/HREF-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C195&ssl=1)
Lawlor family in New Vernon, NJ, just before sailing to Germany, February 1965 (L-R Frannie, Jack, Lizzie, Sarah, Nancy, Mary
![With my mother and sisters at the farm in Alabama, c. 1957: (L-R) Lizzie, Nancy, Frannie with Sarah on her lap, and me](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/FullSizeRender-1.jpg?resize=295%2C300&ssl=1)
With my mother and sisters at the farm in Alabama, c. 1957: (L-R) Lizzie, Nancy, Frannie with Sarah on her lap, and me
![Portrait my mother had taken in Miami, 1955, of herself surrounded by us: Lizzie (top l), Nancy (top r), Sarah (lower r), me (lower l)](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Frannie-us-4-portrait-Miami-1955.jpg?resize=300%2C247&ssl=1)
Portrait my mother had taken in Miami, 1955, of herself surrounded by us: Lizzie (top l), Nancy (top r), Sarah (lower r), me (lower l)
![Thinking of Frannie, my mother and subject of much attention in <em>Fighter Pilot's Daughter</em>, sketched here in a Saks ad for Intoxication perfume in 1945, when she worked in their advertising department.](https://i0.wp.com/www.marylawlor.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_4142.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1)
Thinking of Frannie, my mother and subject of much attention in Fighter Pilot’s Daughter, sketched here in a Saks ad for Intoxication perfume in 1945 when she was working in Saks’s advertising department.