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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 21:54:04 -0600
From: Stroeve <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Chicago Map Society Meeting: 15 Feb
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THE CHICAGO MAP SOCIETY
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610-3380


FEBRUARY MEETING (Note date change)

Place:   The Newberry Library, Towner Fellows' Lounge
Time:    5:30 - 7:00 PM, Tuesday, 15 February 2000
Program: Seymour Schwartz, M.D.
         "The Anatomy and Physiology of a Map Collection"

Seymour Schwartz is probably most widely known as a
celebrated surgeon and the editor-in-chief of Principles
of Surgery, a textbook now in its seventh edition.  We
map folk, though, know him as one of the great scholar-
collectors, in the tradition of Henry Wagner, Carl Wheat,
and Louis Karpinski.  Dr. Schwartz's collections of
American maps have formed the bases for two important
books: The Mapping of America (co-authored by Ralph
Ehrenberg and published in 1980) and The French and
Indian War, 1754-1763 : the imperial struggle for North
America, which appeared in 1994.  For his presentation,
Dr. Schwartz borrows the language of medicine to meditate
on his own career as a collector and the process of
collection-building itself.

As usual, we will gather at 5:30 for refreshments, with
the talk beginning at 6:00.  Free to Chicago Map
Society members; $5 for others.
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