Map cataloging / Charles W. Buffum, Library of Congress. 1971

Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division

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Maps and atlases were among the first items acquired when the Library of Congress was established in 1800. It was not until 1897, however, when the Library of Congress moved into its own building, that a separate Hall of Maps and Charts was created to house the growing collection of 47,000 maps and 1,200 atlases. The division now occupies an area of 90,000 square feet in the Library's James Madison Memorial Building. The area is specifically designed and constructed to accommodate a variety of c...

Buffum, Charles Walbridge, 1900-1991.

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Karrow, Robert W.

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Robert William Karrow, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5 August 1945, and educated in the public schools of Hartland, Wisconsin. He received the B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1968 and the M.S.L.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1971. Since July 1971, he has been employed at the Newberry Library, first as Map Cataloger, from 1975 as Curator of Maps, and, from 1989, as Curator of Special Collections. He is the author of...