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    John Fox World War II map collection A collection of 17 photomaps (Mosaic No. 41) created by the 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion of the Eighth Air Force. The photomaps depict the German cities of Coblenz (Koblenz), Bendorf, and Neuwied, and the surrounding area. The photomaps were created during World War II.
    • Date: 1944
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    Frank Farrell map collection Frank Farrell served in the Marine Corps as an interrogator and prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Shanghai, China. His collection includes a map from World War II that depicts the military situation in China, maps of Guangxi Province, and various tourist maps. Some maps have annotations on the reverse in English and French and other maps are in Chinese.
    • Contributor: Farrell, Frank
    • Date: 1930
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    Inter-Service Topographical Department World War II map collection The Inter-Service Topographic Department collection contains 1045 maps, aerial photographs, and drawings from World War II. The ISTD (1940-1946) was a joint British army and navy program that supplied topographic intelligence for all combined British military operations. The department was created following the failed British invasion of Norway (April 9 - May 9, 1940), during which British army and navy intelligence units operated independently...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Inter-Service Topographical Department
    • Date: 1940
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    Muriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
    • Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
    • Date: 1538
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    Charles P. Taft map collection, 1948-1966 19 cartographic items for the period 1948-1966, and no date, including maps, map order forms, map indexes, and a tourist guide.
    • Contributor: Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps)
    • Date: 1948
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Antarctica This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 716 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Antarctic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Paul Swazuk World War II map and papers collection Paul Swazuk served as a corporal in the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He participated in the D-Day parachute operations in Normandy, France, glider landings in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. His unit liberated a concentration camp, and after the war, he served in the Amercian sector of occupied Berlin. The collection consists of...
    • Contributor: Swazuk, Paul
    • Date: 1942
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    Town plan maps of Oregon City maps issued by the Oregon Department of Transportation showing highways, streets, parks, railroads, schools, public buildings, section corners, water features, land features, and various boundaries.
    • Contributor: Oregon. Department of Transportation
    • Date: 1986
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    Everett Strait Hughes map collection Everett Strait Hughes was a colonel in the artillery of American Expeditionary Force in World War I. During World War II, he served closely with Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe. The collection contains two maps with annotations showing the American zone of occupation in Germany in 1919 and of its headquarters in Coblenz, Germany.
    • Contributor: Hughes, Everett Strait
    • Date: 1919
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    Otto A. Ewaldsen World War II map collection Otto A. Ewaldsen served in the U.S. Army 650th Engineer Topographic Battalion during World War II. He authored the book Mapping was our mission: the military history of the 650th Engineer Topographic Battalion during Word War II, August 1942 to April 1946: from Camp White Oregon to Japan. The collection consists of maps of Japan, photocopies of American military bases in Oregon that appeared...
    • Contributor: Ewaldsen, Otto A.
    • Date: 1943
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    Tasker Howard Bliss collection of World War I maps and related materials The map collection was amassed by General Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930) during his World War I military service and then as a U.S. representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
    • Contributor: Bliss, Tasker Howard
    • Date: 1815
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    Aaron Schoen World War I map collection Aaron Schoen was a Second Lieutenant in the American 3rd Division, 18th Field Artillery during World War I. He was attached to a French unit to study their methods of ballon and airplane observation. He marched into Germany with the French, and the maps document their advance across Europe. The maps contain his annotations and included among them is a captured German map.
    • Contributor: Schoen, Aaron
    • Date: 1917
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    Jack Eshe World War II aeronautical charts collection Jack Eshe was an American B-17 bomber pilot in World War II. He donated a collection of 13 G.S.G.S aeronautical charts of Great Britain, France, and Germany. The charts were published during the war. Also included in the collection is a "Time Distance Computer, Type 4... Property of the U.S. Army." It was used to compute true altitude and true air speed.
    • Date: 1942
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    Anthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers collection Anthony A. Faranda served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was attached to the 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in the South Pacific Theater. The collection consists of captured Japanese maps, textual documents concerning military map creation and printing, and wartime photographs.
    • Contributor: Faranda, Anthony A. (Anthony Albert)
    • Date: 1943
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Atlantic Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 9600 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Atlantic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Arthur J. Goldberg celestial chart and map collection The collection consists of two celestial charts published by National Geographic and seven tourist maps that depict locations in the Mid-Atlantic states, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Golderberg, the compiler, had a career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.
    • Contributor: Goldberg, Arthur J.
    • Date: 1959
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    McConnell's Economic Surveys collection The McConnell's Economic Surveys collection is a set of manuscript maps and plans that primarily concerns economic development projects in the City of Los Angeles and southern Califorina from 1920s to 1970s. The surveys were conducted by Cormac McConnell on behalf of various businesses and other entities in order to anticipate construction costs and the likely profitability of business situated in a said geographic...
    • Contributor: McConnell's Economic Surveys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
    • Date: 1920
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    Herold J. Wiens collection, 1939-1971 Consists of pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, facsimiles, and photographs of aerial views showing all or part of China during the period of World War II. The collection also consists of technical drawing equipment, notes, charts, atlases, some books, personal folders, letters, correspondence, and other miscellaneous items.
    • Contributor: Wiens, Herold J. (Herold Jacob)
    • Date: 1941
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    Laura Wood Roper map collection The collection consists of four maps that depict locations in Chicago, San Francisco, Staten Island, and Hartford, Connecticut. Frederick Law Olmsted helped create each of the maps.
    • Contributor: Roper, Laura Wood - Olmsted, Frederick Law
    • Date: 1871
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    William H. Littlewood map collection The collection consists of nine maps of the Osaka-Kobe area of Japan, one World War II-era map of the United States that includes military insignias, 17 issues of The Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, and two Swedish government documents. William H. Littlewood, the compiler, was a chief oceanographer with the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office and science attaché with the U.S. Foreign Service.
    • Contributor: Littlewood, William H.
    • Date: 1774
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    Charles Oscar Maas map collection, 1920-1997 The collection consists of four maps that depict New York, steamboat lines in North America, Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal. Maas, the compiler, was Lieutenant Commander, USNFR, Assistant Naval Attache to the American Embassy in Paris, France.
    • Contributor: Maas, Charles Oscar
    • Date: 1920
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    Charles B. Peterson III road map collection, 1911-2007 The Charles B. Peterson III road map collection contains maps collected by Charles B. Peterson III dating from 1911 to 2007. The maps cover locations in the United States, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Peterson, as a child, began collecting maps from gas service stations and later wrote letters to publishers, in which he requested maps. Peterson described each map...
    • Contributor: Peterson, Charles B. III (Charles Buckley)
    • Date: 1911
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    Peter L. Stark World War II map collection The collection consists of three items, which includes a guide to reading aerial photography, a book of photomaps of Central Luzon, and an AAF Cloth Chart of the East China Sea.
    • Contributor: Stark, Peter L. (Peter Leroy)
    • Date: 1942
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Indian Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 1311 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Indian Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    J. Neilson Barry manuscript maps collection tracing the exploration of Lewis and Clark in the Pacific Northwest The collection consists of J. Neilson Barry's map studies of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and his map studies of the route of John Colter, a member of the expedition.
    • Contributor: Barry, J. Neilson (John Neilson)
    • Date: 1936