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Subject:        Holzheimer "Maps and America" Lecture for 2007
Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:30:10 -0500
From:   Christopher Baruth <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>


America’s Oldest Scientific Agency Subject of Lecture

The bicentennial of the Coast Survey, America’s oldest scientific
agency, will be celebrated with a presentation by historian John Cloud
on Wednesday, April 25 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society
Library, located on the third floor, east wing, of the UWM Golda Meir
Library.

Dr. Cloud is currently researching the history of the Survey of the
Coast (established 1807), which later become the Coast Survey, the Coast
and Geodetic Survey, and now NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration).

His talk, this year’s Holzheimer “Maps and America” Lecture, is titled
“‘And the Charts Themselves May Become the Best Future Historical
Authority’: Cartography and the Coast Survey, America’s Oldest
Scientific Agency.” A reception at 5 p.m. precedes the lecture.

The lecture series, initiated in 1990, is supported by Arthur and Janet
Holzheimer and co-sponsored by the UWM Libraries and the Friends of the
Golda Meir Library.  In conjunction with the talk, there will be an
exhibit in the AGS Library of maps and other materials relating to the
Coast Survey.

For more information or special needs, call (414) 229-6282.  The Golda
Meir Library is located at 2311 East Hartford Ave.

http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html