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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
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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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    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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    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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    Luther E. Grim and Dorothy H. Grim map collection The collection consists of 32 pictorial, tourtist, and road maps published between 1942 and 1964. The materials depict the moon and various locations in the United States. Several of these maps were designed for classroom instruction. Publishers include Armour and Company, General Drafting Company, Esso Standard Oil Company, among others. Included is an envelope from the Armour and Company addressed to Mrs. Dorothy H....
    • Contributor: Grim, Luther E. - Grim, Dorothy H.
    • Date: 1942
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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Board of Geographic Names map proofs collection The collection consists of 19 map proofs by the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey. The maps contain handwritten annotations and stamps to correct or update placenames.
    • Contributor: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    • Date: 1939
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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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    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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    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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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Arctic Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 370 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Arctic 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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    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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    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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    Bertha Schooler Sohn map collection The collection consists of seventy-five maps depicting locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
    • Contributor: Sohn, Bertha Schooler
    • Date: 1932
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    Hal Shelton manuscript map collection The Hal Shelton collection contains 33 manuscript maps, an exhibit flyer, and an interview with Shelton on two audio tapes. NASA employed this collection of maps by Shelton to index photos of Earth taken on early space missions. The maps represent Shelton's use of natural colors that added realism in the depiction of landforms while retaining orthographically accurate position and scale for each feature....
    • Contributor: Shelton, Hal
    • Date: 1949
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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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    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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    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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    Copeland railroad survey collection H.H. Copeland and Son commissioned the materials that contain information about railroads in the United States from 1917 to 1958. The collection includes maps and data concerning railroad traffic density, tables on ton miles, freight density and traffic distribution, and other railway related tables and calculations. H. H. Copeland and Son were an investment house in existence from the late nineteenth century to around...
    • Date: 1917
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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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    Glenn R. Fackler World War II map collection The Glenn R. Fackler World War II map collection contains 11 reproductions of maps from the publication titled Eleven war maps with the dates of important events in World War II. The book was published in 1945 by the Geographia Map Co. of New York. The donor's reproductions were not large enough to completely cover the contents of the maps. Three textual documents are...
    • Contributor: Fackler, Glenn R. - Gross, Alexander
    • Date: 1945
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : World/Miscellaneous This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 5890 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the ocean floor represented in worldwide depictions and also contains miscellaneous materials. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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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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    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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    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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    Richard Edes Harrison maps and papers collection Maps, including manuscript maps, professional and personal papers of cartographer-artist Richard Edes Harrison that highlight his influence on popular cartography from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection includes examples of work from Fortune, Life, Time, and the U.S. government, among others. It consists of illustration boards, tracing sheets or paper sheets, photoreproductions, and proof prints or printed sheets. Most items are manuscript materials...
    • Contributor: Harrison, Richard Edes
    • Date: 1920