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Cartography -- History -- Study and teaching

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Records:

George F. Jenks map research projects collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 347
Overview

This collection consists of a wide variety of materials related to map production, generated and collected by George F. Jenks, a professor of geography at the University of Kansas from 1949-1986. The collection also includes publications written by Jenks and other research and teaching materials from his career.

Dates: 1933, 1947, 1951-1980s (bulk 1950s-1970s)

Personal papers of Karen Severud (Pearson) Cook

 Collection
Call Number: PP 648
Overview

Most of this collection concerns Karen Severud (Pearson) Cook’s research papers on the history of geography, cartography, and cartographers. There are also some of the maps and illustrations that she created and information on her own professional background.

Dates: September 1972 - September 2021

Research papers gathered for A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century English and American Geography Books

 Collection
Call Number: MS 287
Overview This collection contains research papers gathered by Barbara Backus McCorkle, 1977-2000, while compiling the book A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century English and American Geography Books, published in electronic format on the University of Kansas' platform ScholarWorks in November 2009. The papers include paper printouts of ESTC (English Short-Title Catalog) records for the books listed in the carto-bibliography and two sets of photocopies...
Dates: 1977 - 2000

Thomas Russell Smith papers and correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: MS 288
Overview

The earliest material in this collection are papers and correspondence of Thomas Russell Smith (1910-1996) including accounts of his travels with his family around the world in 1925-1926 and to Europe in 1929. The bulk of the collection consists of research notes, photographs, drafts, papers and correspondence about the history of cartography. There are also some notes from his course on the history of cartography.

Dates: 1925 - 1983