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From the Library of Congress:

PHILIP LEE PHILLIPS ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Visualizing the Nation’s Capital: Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 18-19 May 2012

“Plan of the City of Washington,” engraving, March 1792 (Wikimedia Commons)

Visualizing the Nation’s Capital: Two Centuries of Mapping Washington, D.C. is the first conference devoted to mapping the nation’s capital, covering the period from Pierre-Charles L’Enfant’s 1791 Plan of the City of Washington to the present. Participants include historians, archaeologists, building and landscape architects, urban planners, cartographers, geographers, land surveyors, Library of Congress specialists and Anthony Williams, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. The conference is presented by the Library and the Philip Lee Phillips Society, which was established in 1995 as an association of collectors, geographers, historians and map enthusiasts, with a shared interest in supporting and promoting the programs and activities of the Library’s Geography and Map Division. The conference is free and open
to the public. Reservations are needed; contact
SpecialEvents@loc.gov or call 202-707-1616.

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Friday, 18 May 2012 (Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building) (more…)