Golda Meir Library Office for Map History records, 1986-1992.

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Golda Meir Library Office for Map History records, 1986-1992.

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Descrption: The collection contains records relating to the Office for Map History, a unit of the Golda Meir Library. There are a few records relating to the administration of the Office, but the majority of the records relate to the Office's mounting of the major exhibition Maps and the Columbian Encounter. The exhibition ran from 1989 to 1992 and displayed a number of original 13th-17th century maps in order to demonstrate the use of maps as instruments of discovery, power, and cultural dominance. Finding aid available in the Archives.

.2 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6955950

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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Golda Meir Library. Office for Map History.

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In 1986, J. Brian Harley of UWM's Department of Geography proposed the establishment of a "Center for American Cartography." The Center would complement the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), a unit of the Golda Meir Library, by providing a focus for geographical and historical research and allowing the solicitation of federal and private funds for a number of different cartographical activities. It would be an interdisciplinary center for advanced research on the role of maps and map...

Golda Meir Library. American Geographical Society Collection

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Harley, J. B. (John Brian)

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