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| A Newsletter of the Texas Map Society Vol V No 2 Winter 2002 | ||
Table of Contents: Vol. V, No. 2, Winter 2002
Map Society to Breeze into Galveston
By Katherine R. Goodwin
Preview of the upcoming Spring Meeting at Galveston. The meeting, held on
October 3rd and 4th, includes a Friday evening event and an outstanding slate of
speakers for Saturday.
The Third Coast Blows into UTA Libraries
By David Buisseret and Katherine R.
Goodwin
Report on the Garrett Lectures and the joint meeting of the Texas Map Society
and the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress. The article
contains a number of pictures from the Garrett Lectures and the joint map
society's meeting
Map Collections in the Lone Star State
By Gerald D. Saxon
Saxon, the Associate Director of Libraries at the University of Texas at
Arlington, reports on the map holdings at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston in
this series of reviews of prominent cartographic collections in the state.
Feature Map
By David Finfrock
TMS member, Finfrock writes on a map from his collection that was featured in
this issue was featured in Gentleman's Magazine in June of 1763.
Off the Map: The President's Column
By John Crain
TMS President, John Crain, relates a true story about a Texas treasure
map!
TMS Officers and Board Members
Current listing of Officers and Board members with contact
information.
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The Neatline is published semi-annually by The Texas Map Society, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497. For more information contact: Kit Goodwin, editor, Texas Map Society, UTA Libraries, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas 76019-0497. Phone: 817-272-5329, fax: 817-272-3360, e-mail: goodwin@uta.edu. Texas Map Society members who helped produce this issue are David Buisseret, John Crain, Maggie Dwyer, David Finfrock, Kit Goodwin, Richard Francaviglia, and Gerald Saxon. A Neatline is the outermost drawn line surrounding a map. It defines the height and width of the map and usually constrains the cartographic image. |