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Subject:        : Maps Lecture in Richmond
Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:16:16 -0500
From:   Ricardo Padron <[log in to unmask]>
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    Saturday, March 10, 2007
    *
    2007 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of
    Cartography
    *1 PM
    Lecture Hall
    The Library of Virginia
    Richmond, VA
    FREE EVENT, but reservations required. Call 804-692-3900.

    Dr. John Hebert, chief of the Geography and Map Division at the
    Library of Congress, and Dr. Helen C. Rountree, Professor Emerita of
    Anthropology at Old Dominion University and the author and editor of
    numerous works on the Native Americans of the East Coast, will
    deliver the fourth annual Voorhees Lecture on the History of
    Cartography. Dr. Hebert will look at John Smith’s map of Virginia as
    an active promotional device for acquiring territory and Dr.
    Rountree will discuss John Smith as a mapmaker who mapped what he
    saw, but selectively.