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AGS Library Event to Highlight Two Views of the Cartography of War:
Battle Maps of the Civil War and an Icon of the Global Struggle of WWII.
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The Holzheimer Maps and America Lecture, of 2005 will be “A Hard Road to
Travel: Maps and Mapping of the American Civil War.”

This talk, to be held on Wednesday, April 27, 2005, will commemorate the
140th anniversary of the end of the Civil War (on the 183rd birthday of
General Ulysses S. Grant).  The speaker will be Earl B. McElfresh, a
cartographer and Civil War author and map historian from Olean, NY.  Mr.
McElfresh is the author of Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War (Abrams,
1999), as well as a number of maps of Civil War battlefields.

In addition to the lecture, the AGS Library will feature an exhibit of
maps of, from and relating to, the Civil War.

The AGSL will also take the opportunity to rededicate its copy of “The
President’s Globe,” a 50-inch globe, on permanent loan from Memorial
Library, UW-Madison.  The first copies of this globe were produced in
1942 for President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to aid in
their coordination of the war effort.  Our globe, one of only 19
produced, has been restored with a grant from Arthur and Jan Holzheimer,
the sponsors of the Maps and America lecture series.  The globe’s map
was created by the Office of Strategic Services under the direction of
Arthur Robinson, who later became a well-known professor of geography
and cartography at UW-Madison.  Robinson passed away in October 2004 at
the age of 89.

The Lecture will be held in the American Geographical Society Library,
located on the 3rd floor, east wing of the Golda Meir Library at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  The street address is 2311 E.
Hartford Avenue.  The time of the lecture is 6:00 pm, with a reception
beginning at 5:00.  The program is free and open to the public.

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Christopher Baruth, Ph.D.
Curator, American Geographical Society Library
Editor, Current Geographical Publications, Online Geographical Bibliography
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http://leardo.lib.uwm.edu
(414) 229-6282
(800) 558-8993 (toll free)
(414) 229-3624 (fax)
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