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Box 1

 Container
Call Number: PP 648

Contains 39 Results:

List of Contents, September 2021

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

A full list of collection contents including bibliographic details.

Dates: September 2021

Curriculum Vitae/Resume, 1980-2019

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Karen Severud (Pearson) Cook’s 1980 resume includes her cartographical work history. The 2019 resume focuses on library work.

Dates: 1980-2019

Cartographer and Illustrator (1) [with slides], September 1972 - 1982

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes maps of early European settlement of Virginia and of an early mission in Alaska, slides of maps for a lecture on the Geology and mineral deposits in Alaska, along with a spiral bound copy of the “State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Professional Report 81: Snow Avalanche Atlas, Seward Highway, South-Central Alaska” by G.D. March and L.G. Robertson, in which Cook created all of the maps.

Dates: September 1972 - 1982

Cartographer and Illustrator (2), 1982-1984

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Includes DENA’INA ELENA, a publication of the Alaska Native Language center in which Karen (Pearson) Cook created all of the maps, and the following publications in which Cook created all of the maps and diagrams: Geologic Hazards of the Fairbanks Area, Alaska, Short Notes on Alaska Geology, and Alaska’s Resource Inventory 1984.

Dates: 1982-1984

Cartographer and Illustrator (3), 1985-2000

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Includes an issue of Earth Science in which Cook created the map on page 23, a photocopy of a map produced for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, copies of The American Geographical Society’s Focus in which Cook designed and produced the map illustrations, two self-guided tour maps of the Douglas County, Kansas area that Cook researched and created, and a pamphlet entitled “Aesop, Minerva’s Olive” for which Cook...
Dates: 1985-2000

Cartographic Handbooks, March 14, 1982-1983

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of Handbook for Geologic Cartography and a photocopy about its development and design.

Dates: March 14, 1982-1983

Reports about Conferences, October 1992-2004

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Reports on conferences in Berlin and Freiberg, Germany, along with programs from the conferences, and a report on a conference in Portland, Maine.

Dates: October 1992-2004

Book Reviews, 1988-2021

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of book reviews, most of which were published in Oxford University’s Imago Mundi.

Dates: 1988-2021

Obituaries and Biographies of Cartographers and Map Librarians, 2005-2018

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Obituaries and remembrances for Arthur Robinson and Barbara McCorkle and a biography of August Peterman (1822-1878).

Dates: 2005-2018

Exhibitions: Catalogs and Published Reports, 1981-2015

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Includes an exhibition catalog for a University of Nebraska map exhibit “Portraits of the World” and photocopies of catalogs and reports of exhibitions created by Cook at the University of Nebraska and University of Kansas Libraries.

Dates: 1981-2015

German Renaissance Geography Books Illustrated with Topographical Views and Maps [with slides], 1972-1982

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

A photocopy of the published article along with numbered notecards and slides for the lecture “Cartographic Implications of the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493,” and two photocopies of articles on maps in German Renaissance Geography books.

Dates: 1972-1982

History of Color in Cartography: General, 1980-1987

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

A 50-page typewritten manuscript written by Ulla Ehrensvaard and edited by Karen Cook called “Color in Cartography: An Historical Survey” and a 23-page published version.

Dates: 1980-1987

History of Map Design and Production: Mechanization in the 19th Century, 1983

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

A typewritten pre-publication and a post publication form of “Mechanization and the Area Symbol.”

Dates: 1983

Cartographic Information Sources, 1990-1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Includes scientific, geological, and international map source lists that Cook contributed to or compiled and wrote entirely.

Dates: 1990-1995

History of Cartography: World War II, 1990

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

“Drawn by our special war artist,” an article published in The Map Collector.

Dates: 1990

"History of Cartography in America: Benjamin Franklin and the Snake that Would Not Die", 1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Includes two presentation versions and the published version of this essay in Images and Icons of the New World: Essays on American Cartography, The British Library Journal edited by Karen Severud Cook and a British Library Journal pamphlet advertising it as an upcoming publication, along with a color plate and a photocopy of the snake images used in the article.

Dates: 1996

Teaching Cartography: The Colorado Landscape Project, October 18, 1999

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Printed presentation dealing with cartography/GIS and classroom/library interfaces.

Dates: October 18, 1999

History of Map Design and Production: 19th and 20th Century Photomechanical Techniques, 2003

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

Photocopied article published in the Journal of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping.

Dates: 2003