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Fine Arts Library Features Exhibit on Explorer Roberts
May 3, 2010 - 1:49pm
Roberts, an Army civil engineer, traveled extensively in his capacity for the military, taking photographs and collecting ephemera and artifacts from his travels throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
AUSTIN, Texas (May 3, 2010) — The Fine Arts Library is hosting an exhibition tracking the life and work of Colonel Leo Bond Roberts.
An opening reception takes place from 5-7 p.m., Friday, May 7, in the Roberts Reading Room of the Fine Arts Library. The exhibit will be on view through July.
Roberts, an Army civil engineer, traveled extensively in his capacity for the military, taking photographs and collecting ephemera and artifacts from his travels throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The exhibit includes materials from all phases of Roberts' life: childhood, college years, officer during World War I, topographer and explorer during the 1920s and 30s, civil engineer, military engineer and planner during World War II and chief engineer of the Jones Beach Marine Theater on Long Island, NY.
Items include photographs, publications, military awards, lantern slides of travels in the Gobi Desert and in Ethiopia and African masks.
Items in the exhibition were generously donated to the Fine Arts Library by Roberts's daughter-in-law, Jan J. Roberts.
To attend the opening reception, please RSVP to Eve McQuade at emcquade@austin.utexas.edu or call 512-495-4363.
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