Date: September 20, 1979
Title: George Cram and the American Perception of Space
Speaker: Gerald A. Danzer, Professsor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

This is the second in the series of lectures on Chicago Mapmakers that the Society’s members have been working on.

Date: October 18, 1979
Title: Reinterpreting History through Cartography
Speakers: Adele Hast and Jacqueline Peterson, Research Analysts, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History Project, The Newberry Library
Location: Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library.

Date: November 15, 1979
Title: Rand McNally—Mapmaker (to 1900)
Speaker: Peter McQueen, Rand McNally & Co.
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: January 17, 1980
Title: Lithographers, Printers, and Mapmakers of Chicago, 1850s & 1860s
Speaker: Grant Dean, Acquisitions Librarian, Chicago Historical Society
Title: Rufus Blanchard: Early Chicago Map Publisher
Speaker: Marsha Selmer, Map Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: February 21, 1980
Title: Making Modern Globes: A Slide and Lecture Tour of the Replogle Globe Company
Speakers: Members of the staff of Replogle Globe Company
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: March 20, 1980
Title: A Tale of Two Maps, or Why There Were Only Thirteen Colonies in the American Revolution
Speaker: John H. Long, Project Supervisor, United States Historical County Boundary Data File Project, The Newberry Library
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: April 17, 1980
Title: A Member “Show and Tell”
Speakers: Members of the Chicago Map Society
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: May 3, 1980
Title: Finding Your Way by U.S. Geological Survey Map, Magnetic Compass, and Solar Compass
Speaker: James Marshall, Professional Land Surveyor, Schaumburg, Ill.
Location: Kettle Moraine State Park, Eagle, Wisc.

This is a map reading field trip with a six-mile hike.

Date: May 15, 1980
Title: Cartographic Truth
Speaker: David Woodward, Director, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library