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October 5, 2002
The Fall meeting was held in conjunction with the Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of Cartography and coupled with a  joint meeting of the TMS and the Philip Lee Phillips Society of the Library of Congress. The blockbuster weekend included not only two and half days of outstanding presentations on the mapping of the Gulf of Mexico, but a series of events, receptions, luncheons and diners.

  • Dennis Reinhartz: "Divided by Empire, United by Tourism: The Tourist Maps of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin."
  • Heather Wanser: 
  • Gregory McIntosh:
  • John Crain:
  • Archie McDonald:
  • Katherine Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner"

April 5-6, 2002
The Spring Meeting held at The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas. The Friday night event, April 5th, was hosted by members Marvin and Shirley Applewhite of Mineola who opened their home for a tour of the grounds, dinner and a peek at their map collection. 

  • Darrell McDonald: "Using Geographic Information Systems to Map Historic Sites."
  • Joan Kilpatrick: "Texas's 'Adopt-A-Map' Program."
  • Royd Riddell and George Tobolowsky: "Two Perspectives on Map Collecting: The Dealer and the Collector."
  • Gregory Schadt: The Woodlands, Texas" A Case of Innovative Mapping for Town Planning."
  • Gayle Young: "Can You Fix This?"
  • Gary Spurr: "Maps of Conquest: Indian and Spanish Maps of Meso America."

 

October 6, 2001
The Annual Fall Meeting held at The University of Texas at Arlington, Sixth Floor of the Central Library. Speakers included:

  • John Long: "An Atlas Design Evolves: The Case of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries."
  • Gerald Saxon; "Making Cartographic Connections."
  • Tim Bressler: "John Ogliby and His Atlas."
  • David Finfrock: "Tour of NBC-TV Fort Worth Weather Station."
  • Kit Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner."

October 7, 2000
The Annual Fall Meeting held at The University of Texas at Arlington, Sixth Floor of the Central Library. Speakers included:

  • Bert Johnson: "Vintage Cartography: The Art of Maps on Wine Labels."
  • Henry Taliaferro: "The English Map Trade in the Late Seventeenth Century."
  • Alice Hudson: "West is West: Images of the West on Maps of the East."
  • David Rumsey: "Bringing Historica Maps Online."
  • Judith tyner: "Hidden Cartographers: The Role of women in the Map Trade."
  • Kit Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner."

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April 3, 2000

Spring Meeting held at the South Shore Harbour resort, In Clear Lake, Texas. Speakers Included:

  • Mark Allen: "JWF DesBarres and the Neptune Atlas."
  • Carrington Weems: ""Who really Discovered America?"
  • John Hébert: "Historica Maps of the Library of Congress."
  • Kamlesh Lulla: "NASA and the Mapping of the World."
  • Tom Woodfin: "Maps for Capitalists: Location, Location, Location."
  • Kit Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner."

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October 16, 1999
Fall Meeting held at The University of Texas at Arlington, Sixth Floor of the Central Library. Speakers included:

  • David Farmer: "Cartography in Disguise: Maps in Western Promotional Ephemera."
  • Dan Hampton: "Mapping Early Texas by Private Land Surveys."
  • Ron Grim: "Deutsch in Amerika: Emigration as depicted in Cartographic Images."
  • Richard Francaviglia: "From Monte Grande to the Cross Timbers: Representing the Cross Timbers in Maps."
  • José Delgado: "The Cartography of the Falkland Archipelago as the Primary Source of Historical Reference."
  • Kit Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner."

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April 9-10, 1999
Spring Meeting held in San Antonio hosted by the Alamo Library. [Program to be posted shortly].

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Saturday, October 3, 1998
Fall Meeting held at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. Presentations were given in the sixth floor parlor of the Central Library. Speakers included

  • John Miller Morris, "Table Land Cartography:  Spanish and American Mapping of the Old Llano Estacado"
  • Lisa Davis-Allen, "A National Palette:  Dutch Identity Through Maps and Paintings"
  • Jeff Dunn, "Automobile Road Maps: 20th Century Icons"
  • Chris Scotese, "A Look at Earth History Through Maps"
  • Katherine Goodwin, Kit's Cartographic Corner

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Saturday, April 25, 1998
Spring meeting held in Austin, Texas, in the auditorium of the Capitol Extension. Speakers included:

  • Robert Martin: "Maps of Stephen F. Austin,"
  • Jack Jackson, Robert Weddle, Richard Francavigia: "Historic Maps of the Texas Coast," (Round Table Discussion)
  • Patricia Ingram and Kenneth Grant: "Preservation & Conservation of Maps,"
  • General Land Office and the Texas State Library: "Behind the Scenes Tours-Map Collections." Tour of both facilities.

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Saturday, November 8, 1997
The Annual Fall Meeting held at The University of Texas at Arlington in the Sixth Floor Parlor of the Central Library. Speakers included:

  • Ron Tyler: "Bird's Eye Views of Texas Towns and Cities"
  • Ben Huseman: "Sir H.J. Ware and Foreign Intrigue in the 19th Century Pacific Northwest"
  • Larry Francell: "A Map to the Klondike Gold Rush"
  • Gerald Saxon: "Map Collections in the Lone Star State: A Personal Journey"
  • Lewis Armstrong: "The Web of Historical Cartography: A Demonstration of Historic Maps on the Internet"

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Saturday, April 12, 1997
Spring meeting held again at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.   The program, from 10:00-4:00 included four sessions.  In addition, Ralph Ehrenberg of the Library of Congress gave a special presentation following the meeting in the library's bibliographic instruction lab. He used the library's internet facilities to demonstrated the Geography and Map Division's new web site for maps. Speakers included:

  • Dennis Reinhartz: "Braggadocio and Other Texas Map Postcards."
  • Ralph Ehrenberg: "Looking Toward the 21st Century: New Services at the Geography & Map Division, Library of Congress."
  • Paul Gervais Bell: "Cartographic Confessions."
  • Katherine Goodwin: "Kit's Kartographic Korner: Special Maps from Members Collections."

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Saturday, November 23, 1996
The first program and organizational meeting of the Society was November 23, 1996, from 10:00 - 4:00, on the sixth floor of Central Library at The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. There were five presentations and the meeting included a tour of UTA's Cartographic History Library. Speakers included:

  • Robert S. Martin: "Contours of Texas Cartography:  Explorers, Empresarios, and Entrepreneurs."
  • Marty Davis: "Confessions of a Mold Eater by an Eclectic Cartographic Collector."
  • Lewis Buttery: "A Mystery Map of Texas."
  • David Buisseret: "New Directions in the History of Cartography."
  • Katherine Goodwin: "Do Not Spindle or Mutilate: What Every Owner Needs to Know About Preserving Old Maps."

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