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> Saturday 20 May 2006
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> A Century of Automobile Road Maps
> By: The Geographic Society of Chicago
> Time Start: 10:30:00 AM- Time End: 12:00:00 PM
> Contact: Winnie Lu
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> Phone: (847) 251-1400, ext 0
> Fax: (847) 256-5601
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> The arrival of the automobile on the American scene in the 20th century was a
> major force in shaping the nation's geography and culture. At the same time,
> the automobile road map became one of the most widely used types of maps in
> history. Join James Akerman, Director of the Herman Dunlop Smith Center for
> the History of Cartography at the New berry Library, as he reviews the first
> century of this often overlooked but indispensable artifact of the car culture,
> from the earliest examples designed for intrepid travelers to the most recent
> digital navigation systems. Along the way we will discover how road maps did
> not merely tell us how to get from place to place but also who we are as
> Americans.
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> Location: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., Chicago. (Accessible)
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> Cost: $6 per person at the door (Mention you saw this notice in Global Chicago
> and receive a $2 discount.) College and high school students free with ID.
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> Refreshments provided.
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Angie Cope
American Geographical Society Library
UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201

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