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Subject: AGS Lecture Commemorates Louisiana Purchase
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 103 13:05:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christopher Baruth <[log in to unmask]>
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      AGS LIBRARY LECTURE COMMEMORATES LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Commemorating to the day the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase,
Dr. John Hébert, Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of
Congress, will give a talk on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 in the
American Geographical Society Library entitled "Charting Louisiana:
18th Century French Mapping of the Mississippi Valley, or How the
Louisiana Territory Came to be Defined."  His talk, this year's
installment of the Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series Maps and America,
will be supported by an exhibit of relevant maps.

Dr. Hébert is the consulting editor of a newly published atlas,
Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps.  His other
publications include The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective
Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900 in the Collections of the Library of
Congress; Panoramic Maps of Anglo-American Cities; Population Maps of
the Western Hemisphere; and The Library of Congress Hispanic and
Portuguese Collections: An Illustrated Guide.

He was project director of the Library of Congress's Christopher
Columbus Quincentenary Program for which he curated the exhibition
"1492: An Ongoing Voyage."  He also was responsible for the
publications associated with the exhibition, The Hispanic World,
1492-1898 and 1492: An Ongoing Voyage, which he edited.

Dr. Hébert's lecture will begin at 6 p.m., preceded by a reception at
5 p.m.  The American Geographical Society Library is located in the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Golda Meir Library, 2311 E.
Hartford Avenue.

The lecture is sponsored by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer, and
co-sponsored by the Friends of the Golda Meir Library and Alliance
Française de Milwaukee.

Christopher Baruth
AGS Library