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BAUM TOUR OF EGYPT TOPIC OF SLIDE LECTURE.(Neighbors Madison)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20031120
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Syracuse University Library Associates will hold an event called "Up the Nile in Style: L. Frank Baum's Grand Tour of Egypt."

David Moyer, an Egyptologist and Baum expert, will speak at 4 p.m. today in 1916 Room, E.S. Bird Library.

This slide lecture re-creates a 1906 "Grand Tour" of Egypt by L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," and his wife, Maud.

Baum, an amateur photographer, documented their trek with photos, now in the possession of his great-grandson, Robert Baum. In this lecture, Moyer ...

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