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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:44:29 -0600
From: Stroeve <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Chicago Map Society meeting 12 April
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Place:   The Newberry Library, Towner Felllows' Lounge
         60 W. Walton,  Chicago,  IL  60610
Time:    5:30 - 7:00 PM,  Wednesday  12 April 2000
         (please note change from usual meeting date)
Program: Ulrich Danckers
         "Maps that Lead to Chicago, 1507-1835"
More:    312-255-3689  and/or  [log in to unmask]

In most histories, the story of Chicago is pretty thin before 1835.
We know about DuSable and Fort Deraborn, but that's about it.  A
new book is about to change all that.
In 'Early Chicago', by Ulrich Danckers and Jane Meredith, with
contributions from John Swenson and Helen Tanner, the year 1835
is the end of the story.  In over 400 pages, the authors provide a
veritable encyclopedia of life in these parts before Chicago was
even chartered as a town.  One of its valuable contributions is a
list of maps showing Chicago, and this research will form the basis
of Dr Danckers' talk.  He will detail the progression of geographic
knowledge from the Gulf of St Lawrence to the Chicago portage region,
and will end with a sequence of new maps from the book to show the
growing settlement along the banks of the Chicaco River prior to
1835.
Signed copies of 'Early Chicago' will be available for purchase at
a discount.

non-member meeting fee $5
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