Jacques M. May papers, 1943-1960.

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Jacques M. May papers, 1943-1960.

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This collection contains professional and personal papers of Jacques M. May when he was the director of the Medical Geography Department at the American Geographical Society. The collection includes research for the Atlas of Diseases, which was a series of maps, or plates, published by the American Geographical Society during the 1950s. Medical statistics, preliminary maps, epidemiology of diseases, bibliographies, and academic studies of diseases are included as research for the Atlas of Diseases. The Atlas of Diseases was originally to contain 25 plates; only 17 were published. Each plate corresponds to a specific disease, or group of diseases. Other professional activities of Jacques M. May are documented in the collection, along with a small amount of personal correspondence and family photographs. A detailed finding aid is available on the web site of the UW Milwaukee Libraries.

2.5 cubic ft. (6 boxes)

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6939238

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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American Geographical Society of New York

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The American Geographical Society, also known as the AGS, is an organization of professional geographers, founded in 1851 in New York City. It was founded by a group of New Yorkers, among them philanthropists, historians, publishers and editors. They included George Folsom, Henry Grinnell, Henry Varnum Poor, Hiram Barney, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, S. De Witt Bloodgood, John Romeyn Brodhead, Joshua Leavitt and Archibald Russell....

May, Jacques M. (Jacques Meyer), 1896-

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Jacques M. May was born in Paris, France on January 27, 1896. He had several careers, including physician and surgeon, medical geographer, and nutritionist. He received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1925. After serving in the Second World War, May was asked to lead the newly formed Department of Medical Geography at the American Geographical Society in 1948. The main effort made by this department was to publish the Atlas of Diseases. May left the society in 1960, and began ...