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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:43:47 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: New Exhibit
 
 
 
 
 
The Harvard Map Collection and The Boston Map Society are pleased to
announce its upcoming exhibit: ERWIN RAISZ: 100 YEARS OF ART & SCIENCE IN
CARTOGRAPHY. The exhibit will include manuscript drawings, maps,
journals, and publications of Harvard's most prominent mapmaker.
 
 
Erwin Josephus Raisz was born in Hungary in 1893 and spent most of his
life in the United States as a cartographer and taught at Columbia,
Harvard, Clark, Virginia, Florida, and British Columbia. Among his
contributions he was the first to offer a course in cartography at
Columbia (1927) and joined the Institute of Geographical Exploration at
Harvard in 1931 and for twenty years taught cartography and was
responsible for the Institute's collection of maps. He was very active
professionally publishing his first edition of <italic>General
Cartography </italic>in 1938 as was appointed the first map supplement
editor for the AAG <italic>Annals</italic> in 1957.
 
 
This exhibit will be at Harvard's Pusey Library, in Harvard Yard, from
January 12 - July 1, 1999. The Library is open Monday - Friday 9 am - 5
pm. Further information is available by calling the Harvard Map
Collection at 617.495.2417.
 
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Harvard Map Collection                          HTTP://icg.harvard.edu/~maps
 
Harvard University                              Tel: (617) 495-2417
 
Cambridge, MA 02138                             FAX: (617) 496-0440
 
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