Read the passage below:
Long before her 1968 appointment as chief conservator at the Maritime Museum, Nora Campbell had developed a fascination with eighteenth-century nautical charts. In 1954, while working as a young apprentice at a commercial bookbindery, she first encountered a damaged 1775 map of the Chesapeake Bay. Before beginning the delicate physical restoration of the parchment in 1958, Nora spent four years cross-referencing its geographical markers with colonial survey logs. It was during this preliminary research period, in 1956, that she uncovered a faded cartographer's signature beneath the map's decorative border. Decades later, in 1972, Nora published a definitive monograph on colonial cartography using the extensive notes she had compiled during that initial discovery.
According to the passage, which of the following events occurred FIRST chronologically?
- ANora uncovered a faded cartographer's signature beneath the map's border.
- Nora encountered the damaged 1775 map of the Chesapeake Bay.Answer
- CNora began the delicate physical restoration of the parchment.
- DNora was appointed chief conservator at the Maritime Museum.