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Subject:  'Mapping the Americas' exhibition
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005
From: tony campbell <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Discussion group for map history <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps-L


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John Wilson Room, Special Collections Exhibition

"Mapping the Americas: the Pacific Northwest Before Lewis & Clark"

November 1-December 31, 2005.

The John Wilson Room, Special Collections contains numerous rare historic
atlases and maps, including these three rare sheets which, prior to
discoveries made during Lewis and Clark's famous expedition, inaccurately
depict the Pacific Northwest: Amérique septentrionale dressée sur le
relations les plus modernes des voyageurs et navigateurs ou se remarquent
les Etats Unis, by Robert de Vaugondy (published in Paris, c. 1783); Carte
d'Amerique, divisees en ses principales parties, by Guillaume de L'Isle
(Amsterdam, 1774), and Charte von Nord America: nach den neuesten
Bestimmungen und Entdeckungen, by Christian Gottlieb Reichard (Weimar,
1804).

Please visit the Room during our open hours and take a look at these
beautiful hand-colored, but geographically incorrect, maps owned by very few
public collections.

The John Wilson Room, Special Collections is within Multnomah County
Library's Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave., Portland, Oregon.

Hours for the Special Collections hours are:

Tuesday:        2:30-5:30
Wednesday:      3:30-7:00
Friday: 10:00-2:00
Saturday:       2:30-6:00

Please contact me off list for more information.

    Jim Carmin
    John Wilson Room Librarian
    Multnomah County Library
    Room 2M-C
    801 SW 10th Ave.
    Portland, OR 97205
    503-988-6287 (phone)
    503-988-5226 (fax)
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