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I am delighted to be able to post this announcement to Va-Hist:
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Mapping the Civil War
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: Lecture Hall
FREE, but reservations required. Please call 804-692-3813.
Richard W. Stephenson, retired head of the Geography and Map Reading
Room at the Library of Congress and specialist in American Cartographic
History, will deliver the 2005 Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Lecture
on the History of Cartography. He will discuss types of Civil War maps,
information on the major cartographers of the time and the problems they
had producing accurate maps for the military. He was co-editor of
Virginia in Maps: Four Centuries of Settlement, Growth, and Development
published in 2000 by the Library of Virginia. A reception will follow
the lecture.
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