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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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    Neil Sheehan map collection The collection consists of 72 maps, and the most unique among them is an annotated map of the Battle of Tan Canh that occurred during the U.S. drawdown from the war in 1972. The other items include a disbound atlas of South Vietnam; various maps of North and South Vietnam; and U.S. military maps of South Vietnam and Cambodia. The materials appear to have...
    • Contributor: Sheehan, Neil - Vann, John Paul
    • Date: 1964
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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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    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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    Hammond World Atlas Corporation archive of print records and samples of printing methods The Hammond World Atlas Corporation archival collection consists of map sculptures, printing separations, and business records (index cards) that document the 100-year publishing history of the company. Hammond was known for its extensive line of world, historical, school, and thematic atlases, but the company also issued a wide variety of other cartographic items, including maps, globes, and transparencies during the last 100 years. It...
    • Contributor: Hammond Incorporated
    • Date: 1900
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    Elmo N. Pickerill map collection The collection consists of four air route atlases and one airport map of locations in the United States.
    • Contributor: Pickerill, Elmo N. (Elmo Neale)
    • Date: 1931
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    G.E. Mueller map collection The collection consists of 17 maps transferred from the G.E. Mueller papers, 1876-2012. Mueller collected tourist, road, and air route maps published between 1952 and 1983. Most maps show locations in Central America; other maps depict places in the United States and Europe. Mueller was an engineer, administrator of U.S. manned space flight program, and corporate executive.
    • Contributor: Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin)
    • Date: 1952
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    Thomas R. Yanosky collection, 1928-1996 The Thomas R. Yanosky Collection relates largely to his cartographic and artistic careers and accomplishments. Included are items documenting is contributions to shaded-relief mapping, as well as his study of color and design in cartography; materials pertaining to his experience as an instructor at the Army Map Training Center; and samples of his own artwork. A second section of the collection contains materials relating...
    • Contributor: Yanosky, Thomas R. (Thomas Raphael)
    • Date: 1928
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    Paul E. Mortimer map collection The collection consists of an aeronautical map of Germany from 1938 published by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium and a letter to the donor, Paul E. Mortimer.
    • Contributor: Mortimer, Paul E. (Paul Eugene)
    • Date: 1938
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    Wallace R. Brode map collection Collection of 6 maps from the Wallace R. Brode Papers. The materials include maps of the 1936 Russian solar eclipse, a World War II bombing map of the Leuna works in Germany, tourist maps of Yugoslavia and Russia, and a U.S. State Department map showing areas restricted to travel by Soviet citizens.
    • Contributor: Brode, Wallace R. (Wallace Reed)
    • Date: 1936
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    Francis R. Valeo map collection, 1954-1980 The Francis R. Valeo Map Collection comprises twenty-six maps for the period 1954-1980, and no date, and cover mainly East Asia, specifically Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau
    • Contributor: Valeo, Francis R. (Francis Ralph)
    • Date: 1954
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    Waldo R. Tobler collection : the beginnings of computerized geographic information systems Materials from Waldo R. Tobler's time as an Assistant Professor to Professor at the University of Michigan from 1961 to 1977 and portions of his thesis when a student at the University of Washington from 1957 to 1961. Items in the collection include manuscripts, lectures, published papers, manuscript maps, early cartographic computer programs, and instructional materials.
    • Contributor: Tobler, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph)
    • Date: 1954
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    John W. Moyer map collection The collection consists of 17 maps owned by John W. Moyer that show India and also various world maps. Moyer contributed to the Library of Congress the photograph collection titled India and Her People.
    • Contributor: Moyer, John W. (John William)
    • Date: 1948
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    Heezen-Tharp collection Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp worked for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Observatory of Columbia University and mapped the ocean floor from 1957 to 1977. Heezen was geologist and Tharp was a cartographer. The collection consists of the textual materials, photographs, and scientific data. Related maps and globes are held by the Geography and Map Division and cataloged separately.
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1876
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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People map collection The collection consists of 2 maps and a map overlay. The map with the overlay depicts Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1960s and contains annotations that show "negro neighborhoods" that indicate population density. The other map is of Detroit, Michigan and presumbly dates from the 1960s.
    • Contributor: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    • Date: 1960
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    Samuel C. Phillips map and chart collection The collection consists of 32 maps and charts that depict Apollo missions and the Northern Hemisphere.
    • Contributor: Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran)
    • Date: 1947
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    Carl Chance Korean War map and papers collection Carl Chance was a lieutenant in the 180th Infantry Regiment in the Korean War. The map and collection illustrate the regiment's engagement with Chinese forces on July 13-14, 1953.
    • Contributor: Chance, Carl
    • Date: 1953
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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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    Joel L. Morrison collection : gray literature on the origins of computerized geographic information systems Joel L. Morrison was active in the development of geospatial data standards, bringing together diverse efforts within the United States to create the Spatial Data Transfer Standard. He compiled a large body of papers on the topic from professionals around the world. His collection of gray literature and white papers from 1963 to 2001 by cartographic and geographic experts from around the world. The...
    • Contributor: Morrison, Joel L.
    • Date: 1963
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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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    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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    Nicholas R. Chrisman collection : gray literature on the origins of computerized geographic information systems Nicholas R. Chrisman is a pioneer in the field of geographic information systems, known commonly as GIS. From 1972 to 1983, he worked at the Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis; he went to work in GIS research, instruction, and journal publications as an editor and writer. His forty-plus year career is represented in this collection of 41 archival boxes containing gray...
    • Contributor: Chrisman, Nicholas R.
    • Date: 1956
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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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    Richard M. Look map collection The collection consists of 218 maps that primarily depict Japan. Most items are Army Map Service (AMS) and tourist maps; other maps depict subways, parks, and cities. Additional maps depict locations in North America and Europe.
    • Contributor: Look, Richard M. (Richard Millard)
    • Date: 1691
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    Thomas F. Peel World War II map collection The collection consists of 14 maps that date to World War II. Some maps depict waritme situations in France and Germany and others show military bases in the United States. The collection also contains a celebratory campaign map the U.S. 13th Armored Division, known as the Black Cats. Peel annotated some of the maps.
    • Contributor: Peel, Thomas F. (Frederic)
    • Date: 1936