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Subject: : Maps Lecture in Richmond
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:16:16 -0500
From: Ricardo Padron <[log in to unmask]>
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Saturday, March 10, 2007
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2007 Alan M. and Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of
Cartography
*1 PM
Lecture Hall
The Library of Virginia
Richmond, VA
FREE EVENT, but reservations required. Call 804-692-3900.
Dr. John Hebert, chief of the Geography and Map Division at the
Library of Congress, and Dr. Helen C. Rountree, Professor Emerita of
Anthropology at Old Dominion University and the author and editor of
numerous works on the Native Americans of the East Coast, will
deliver the fourth annual Voorhees Lecture on the History of
Cartography. Dr. Hebert will look at John Smith’s map of Virginia as
an active promotional device for acquiring territory and Dr.
Rountree will discuss John Smith as a mapmaker who mapped what he
saw, but selectively.
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