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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/11/15 1:50 PM, Angela R Cope
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Lorraine Sherry <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lorraine.sherry@comcast.net"><lorraine.sherry@comcast.net></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rocky Mountain Map Society<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Announcing Map Month May</font>
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#2E74B5">Mapping in the Early 20<sup>th</sup>
Century
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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt; line-height:107%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#2E74B5">RMMS Map Month: May 2015</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; line-height:107%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#2E74B5">A Joint Program by RMMS, Denver
Public Library, and the University of Denver</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; line-height:107%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Exhibits:</span></h2>
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<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">April
13<sup>th</sup> through June 28<sup>th</sup>.
“Mapping the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: Original Maps
from the Denver Public Library.”
</span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
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<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">5th
Floor Map Area, Western History/Genealogy
Department, Gates Reading Room, Denver Public
Library.</span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
20<sup>th</sup> century saw a revolution in maps used
for public consumption.
</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Maps
became more visually arresting because of better
graphics, color, and creative presentations.</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> This
exhibit provides an overview of the nature and variety
of maps of Colorado from 1900 onward, including
cities, mountains, tourist destinations, and
commercial publications. Of special interest are maps
by the Clason Map Company, a Denver based cartography
and printing enterprise.</span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">March
30<sup>th</sup> through June. “Pictorial Maps of
the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: Popular geographic
information presented for beauty and amusement.”
University of Denver,
<span style="color:#222222; background:white">Anderson
Academic Commons.</span></span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
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<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
1920s ushered in a new style of cartography that
almost caricatures traditional maps. Designed by
modern commercial artists, these maps were designed
for tourism, commercial advertising, or to illustrate
the news and other themes. Known as “Pictorial Maps”,
they integrated narrative, geography, and a sense of
humor in a way that was both useful and visually
striking. This exhibit, drawn from the private
collection of Wesley Brown, follows the innovative
style of pictorial mapping from the 1920 through the
1980s.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt; line-height:107%;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lectures:</span></h2>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">May
4: 6:30 PM – Jim Akerman.
</span></b><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#222222; background:white">“A Luddite's view
of the history of cartography in the 20th century.”</span></b><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Denver
Public Library, Conference Room 2.</span></b><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#222222; background:white"></span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
Twentieth Century was arguably the most transformative
century in the history of cartography since the
Renaissance. The 1900s saw the rapid expansion of
mapmaking in both the commercial and governmental
spheres, the emergence of cartography as a
professional and academic field, and the related
development of map libraries, map librarianship, and
the field of the history of cartography itself. A
century that began in the midst of an industrial
revolution in cartographic printing ended in the midst
of a digital revolution. For years experts and
prognosticators have been predicting the demise of the
paper maps. But neither the paper map – nor for that
matter, the manuscript map – has disappeared from the
scene. In his talk Dr. Akerman, Curator of Maps at the
Newberry Library in Chicago, draws on wide range of
maps to ask whether the technological, professional,
and social developments truly transformed mapmaking
and map use over the course of the past century; and
if so, if this is a good thing. He doesn’t have easy
answers to these questions, but like fellow Luddites,
he thinks they are worth asking.</span></p>
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serif;">
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
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serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">May
11: 6:30 PM – Susan Schulten, “How an artist
reinvented the map.”</span></b></p>
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0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">University
of Denver, <span style="color:#222222;
background:white">
Anderson Academic Commons, </span><span
style="color:black; background:white">Special
Events Room.
</span></span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">More
Americans came into contact with maps during the
Second World War than in any previous moment in
American history. From the elaborate and innovative
inserts in
<i>National Geographic </i>to the schematic and
tactical maps that filled daily newspapers, maps were
everywhere. While war has perennially driven interest
in geography, World War Two was different. The urgency
of the war, coupled with the advent of aviation,
fueled the demand not just for <i>more</i> but <i>different </i>maps. The
most important innovator to step into this breach was
actually not a cartographer at all, but an artist.
Beginning in the late 1930s Richard Edes Harrison drew
a series of elegant and gripping images of a world at
war, and in the process persuaded the public that
aviation and global war really had fundamentally
disrupted the nature of geography.</span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">May
18: 6:30 PM –</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
<b>Curtis Bird, “Pictorial Maps, a history and
overview.”</b></span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">University
of Denver, Anderson Academic Commons, Special Events
Room</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.
</span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
beginning of the 20th century marks amazing
developments in our precise understanding of the earth
and its complex geographical structures. And at this
same time the genre of “pictorial” maps charted a
different vantage of geography, looking at life,
culture and the perspectives that define areas to us.
While pictorial cartography can be colorful and
whimsical, full of illustrations, it can also pull
back the veil on culture and perception at the time.
In this talk we will look at several different
“streams” of pictorial map making that can define the
genre.</span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">June
1: 6:30 PM – Bill Wyckoff. “Promotional
cartographies: the Clason Map Company and the
American West, 1903-1931.”</span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Denver
Public Library, Conference Room 2.</span></b></p>
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107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',
serif;">
<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">George
Clason built the largest commercial map company west
of Chicago between 1903 and 1931. In his years as a
Denver-based map publisher and booster of western
economic development, Clason produced millions of road
maps, state maps, city maps, promotional circulars and
maps for mining companies, land companies, and state
and local governments. In this paper, Bill Wykoff
examines the business relationships Clason forged with
private companies and public institutions and how
textual and visual material within Clason’s maps
communicated enduring ideas about the West’s economic
potential and regional character. He suggests that
Clason’s maps formed a powerful cartographic narrative
focused on promoting development in the West that
reflected his own belief in progress and the merits of
individual effort within a largely capitalistic
economic system. He also examines how these same
economic principles shape Clason’s later career as a
writer of self-help essays on achieving financial
independence. These essays became accepted household
wisdom to millions of Americans between 1925 and 1950
and remain in print today. Bill Wyckoff suggests that
Clason’s cartography reflected the same economic
principles he made famous in his later essays about
saving money and building capital.</span></p>
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<b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">June
1: 5:30 PM and following Bill Wyckoff’s lecture</span></b></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Before
and after the lecture on June 1<sup>st</sup>, local
map dealers will have a selection of their inventory
on display and available for purchase.</span></p>
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