Date: September 18, 1986
Title: Spanish Mapping of their Empire up to 1700
Speaker: David Buisseret, Director, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: October 16, 1986
Title: Cartographic Demography of a Three-Flat
Speaker: Allen H. Meyer, President, Chicago Map Society
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Using maps, public records and other tools of investigation, Mr. Meyer will discuss with slides the known history and changes of an unlikely site.

Date: November 20, 1986
Title: Some Aspects of the Juan de la Cosa Map of the New World
Speaker: Paul Anderson, Illinois State University
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: December 11, 1986
Title: Members’ Show-and-Tell
Speaker: Members of the Chicago Map Society
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

This will be our now traditional Holiday meeting, which members bring one or two maps and offer to present them in a show-and-tell. There will also be a dinner.

Date: January 15, 1987
Title: Women’s Influence on Cartography in Early Modern Europe
Speaker: Mary Ritzlin
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: February 19, 1987
Title: Cartographic Images of the World on the Eve of the Discoveries
Speaker: Gerald Danzer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Dr. Danzer has recently been a fellow of the Library, and has been collecting much new material, some of which he will show us on slides.

Date: March 19, 1987
Title: Maps of the Holy Land
Speaker: Kenneth Nebenzahl
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: April 16, 1987
Title: Maps Uncovering Our Agricultural Past: Garfield Farm, A Case Study
Speaker: Jerome M. Johnson, Director, Garfield Farm Museum, LaFox, Ill.
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library

Date: May 21, 1987
Title: The Facsimile Process Used to Reproduce Maps in the Vatican Library Collection
Speaker: Anne Witte, Belvedere Press
Location: Fellows’ Lounge, The Newberry Library