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Philip Lee Phillips Map Society of the Library of Congress Friends of the Geography and Map Division Winter 2016 Volume XIV, Number 1 Find Us Online: www.loc.gov/phillips Inside this issue: @LOCMaps hp://blogs.loc.gov/maps/ News and informaon about the premier map collecons of the Library of Congress. Chief’s Report 1 Hippest Night- spots in Jazz-age Harlem 2 Russian Civil War Maps 4 Women’s History Month at G&M 6 Upcoming Con- ference: Facts or Fictions 7 The World’s Most Secret State 8 Philip Lee Phillips Members Acknowledge- ments 9 Chief ’s Report 2015 Before I provide my annual report on the Geography and Map Division, I want to thank you on behalf of Phillips Society Steering Committee Chair George Tobolosky, Vice Chair Dianne Garrett Powell, and the other members of the Committee, for your contribu- tions to the Division’s friends group dur- ing the past year. Your total donations of $55,885 once again supported the publication of four newsletters and two new issues of our popular Occasional Papers series, our Spring Conference, and several map purchases. In addition, your financial support helped fund Map- ping the West with Lewis and Clark, a publi- cation based on the Division’s unique Lewis and Clark Collection. I would also like to take this oppor- tunity to personally thank editor Ryan Moore who revitalized the Phillips Socie- ty’s publishing program four years ago. Since that time, Ryan wrote, edited, and published sixteen newsletters and eight Occasional Papers, a remarkable body of work that contributed significantly to boosting the Society’s membership and support. His creative design and writing style continues to generate enthusiastic praise from members. Ryan will continue to edit and pub- lish the Occasional Papers, but another staff member will prepare future issues of the newsletter as Ryan turns his atten- tion to the pressing need of processing the Division’s large backlog of Special Cartographic Collections and creating electronic finding aids. Ryan holds mas- ters degrees in history and library science from Cleveland State University and Kent State, respectively. Map Library Technician David Ducey, who joined the Division’s editorial board last summer, will remain with the publication. Issues of our newsletters and The Occasional Papers can now be found on the web at LOC.gov/Phillips, which was recently redesigned by Ryan and webmaster Diane Schug-O’Neill. Another change to our Society’s outreach program relates to our Spring Conference that has become increas- ingly costly and time-consuming to produce. With the approval of the Steering Committee, we have substitut- ed the annual conference with a series of guest lectures by noted speakers on topical subjects spread throughout the year. Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, launched this lecture series on February 24 with a talk on crowd- source mapping of North Korea (see page 8). Online maps, map stories, and social media provide the most effective Continued on page 3 From the left, Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Division Chief Ralph Ehrenberg, and Mrs. Elaine Ng (see page 3).

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Philip Lee Phillips Map Society

of the Library of Congress

Friends of the Geography and Map Division Winter 2016

Volume XIV,

Number 1

Find Us Online:

www.loc.gov/phillips

Inside this issue:

@LOCMaps

http://blogs.loc.gov/maps/

News and information

about the premier map

collections of the Library of

Congress.

Chief’s Report 1

Hippest Night-spots in Jazz-age Harlem

2

Russian Civil War

Maps

4

Women’s History Month at G&M

6

Upcoming Con-ference: Facts or Fictions

7

The World’s Most Secret State

8

Philip Lee Phillips Members Acknowledge-ments

9

Chief ’s Report 2015 Before I provide my annual report on the Geography and Map Division, I want to thank you on behalf of Phillips Society Steering Committee Chair George Tobolosky, Vice Chair Dianne Garrett Powell, and the other members of the Committee, for your contribu-tions to the Division’s friends group dur-ing the past year. Your total donations of $55,885 once again supported the publication of four newsletters and two new issues of our popular Occasional Papers series, our Spring Conference, and several map purchases. In addition, your financial support helped fund Map-ping the West with Lewis and Clark, a publi-cation based on the Division’s unique Lewis and Clark Collection.

I would also like to take this oppor-tunity to personally thank editor Ryan Moore who revitalized the Phillips Socie-ty’s publishing program four years ago. Since that time, Ryan wrote, edited, and published sixteen newsletters and eight Occasional Papers, a remarkable body of work that contributed significantly to boosting the Society’s membership and support. His creative design and writing style continues to generate enthusiastic praise from members.

Ryan will continue to edit and pub-lish the Occasional Papers, but another staff member will prepare future issues of the newsletter as Ryan turns his atten-tion to the pressing need of processing the Division’s large backlog of Special Cartographic Collections and creating electronic finding aids. Ryan holds mas-ters degrees in history and library science from Cleveland State University and Kent State, respectively. Map Library Technician David Ducey, who joined the Division’s editorial board last summer,

will remain with the publication.

Issues of our newsletters and The Occasional Papers can now be found on the web at LOC.gov/Phillips, which was recently redesigned by Ryan and webmaster Diane Schug-O’Neill.

Another change to our Society’s outreach program relates to our Spring Conference that has become increas-ingly costly and time-consuming to produce. With the approval of the Steering Committee, we have substitut-ed the annual conference with a series of guest lectures by noted speakers on topical subjects spread throughout the year. Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, launched this lecture series on February 24 with a talk on crowd-source mapping of North Korea (see page 8).

Online maps, map stories, and social media provide the most effective

Continued on page 3

From the left, Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Division Chief

Ralph Ehrenberg, and Mrs. Elaine Ng (see page 3).

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The Philip Lee Phillips Map So-

ciety of the Library of Congress is

named in honor of Philip Lee Phillips

(1857-1924), the first Superintendent

of Maps at the Library of Congress

when the Hall of Maps and Charts

was established in 1897.

The group is a non-profit, volun-

tary association whose objective is to

develop, enhance, and promote the

work of the Geography and Map

Division by advancing its publication,

education, exhibition, preservation

and acquisition programs.

For membership information

please contact our staff below.

PLP Newsletter Staff

Ralph E. Ehrenberg

Managing Editor

[email protected]

202-707-1992

David Ducey

Editor and Layout

[email protected]

Peter Devereaux

Copy Editor

Colleen Cahill & Jennifer Somosky

Members Acknowledgments

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Nightspots in Jazz-Age Harlem

The Cotton Club with The Cab Calloway orchestra “one of the fastest stepping revues in New York”; the Savoy Ballroom, the “house of Happy feet”; “Reefer man”, selling “Marihuana Cigarettes, 2 for $25”; and “Nothing happens before 2 A.M. Ask for Clarence” are just a few of the street scenes and local slang that can be found on this unique piece of Americana.

This map was drawn years before Campbell would become the first nation-ally recognized African-American illustrator and prominent member of Harlem’s cultural renaissance. He would go on to have his work published in mass-market magazines, including Playboy and Esquire. The Library of Congress holds over twen-ty-four illustrations by Simms Campbell, but this is the only known map that he drew.

Madison Council funds made this Black History Month 2016 Acquisition possible.

By Robert Morris Cartographic Acquisitions Specialist

In the city that never sleeps, knowing where to go to stay awake required a

map drawn by a man in the know. A Night-Club Map of Harlem was drawn by E.

Simms Campbell and published in the first issue of Manhattan: A Weekly for Wakeful

New Yorkers on January 18, 1933. The map captures the energy and vitality of that era

in numerous small cartoon vignettes and illustrations of Harlem.

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Chief ’s Report 2015 Story continued from page 1

ways for linking today’s readers to our collections. To this end, we expand-ed the use of our website during the year. The Division’s online collection of some 50,000 map sheets was visit-ed 3.4 million times by 2.7 million unique visitors who viewed 10.7 mil-lion map images. An additional 630,000 hits were recorded by our Places in the News and Places in History map story websites that target K-12 teachers and students. They were produced by Diane Schug-O’Neill and Ed Redmond.

Our social media footprint was expanded to include both a Twitter account (@LOCMaps) with over 12,000 followers, and a blog, Worlds Revealed: Geography & Maps at the Li-brary of Congress, with forty-six post-ings since Library Technician Carlyn Osborn started it in November. We anticipate that our online traffic will increase substantially next year with our revitalized web presence.

Division outreach included host-ing or co-hosting three major scholar-ly and public programs. These in-cluded The Society of Woman Geog-raphers Annual Spring Symposium; Traditions and Transitions: Celebrat-ing the 125th Anniversary of the U. S. Board on Geographic Names, orga-nized with the assistance of Jacquel-ine Nolan; and Finding the An-tipodes: A Cartographic History of Polar Mapping and Exploration (May 14-15), sponsored by the Phillips So-ciety and organized by John Hessler. In addition, the Division cosponsored seven evening lectures with the Wash-ington Map Society, organized by Ed Redmond and held in the Division’s Research Center Media Corner. John Hessler also taught a week-long University of Virginia Rare Book School course on the art and science of cartography in the Division.

During the year, we acquired nearly 39,000 maps, 1,123 atlases, 3,096 geospatial data files, and 235 publications under the direction of acquisitions officer Robert Morris through donations, purchases, copy-right deposits, library transfers, and official deposits.

The most significant additions involved reassembling the portfolio of maps created by Johann Schöner in 1517 and housed in the Waldburg-Wolfegg Castle in Germany for some 350 years. Library benefactor Jay I. Kislak generously transferred owner-ship of the only known copy of Mar-tin Waldseemüller’s printed Carta Ma-rina (1516), a manuscript sheet of West Africa, originally bound with it, and the portfolio’s housing. The pur-chase of Albrecht Dürer’s star chart of the southern hemisphere, Imagines coeli Meridionales, dated c. 1516, was finalized in October. These maps, along with Waldseemüller’s 1507 printed world map, which was pur-chased by the Library in 2005, reunite one of the great cartographic treas-ures of the Renaissance.

Over one-third of the cartograph-ic acquisition budget of one million dollars was used to purchase geospa-tial digital data covering Russia and the Caucasus region (2011-2013), the Indian sub-continent, and the Ukraine.

Min Zhang and her Cartographic Materials Cataloging Team created 6,568 new cataloging records, includ-ing 2,811 special on-demand catalog-ing requests, primarily for the Divi-sion’s digital scanning program. With the addition of Marzieh Rafi and Set-suko Means near the end of the year, we have begun to catalog several vast, hidden collections in Persian, Arabic, and Japanese.

Cartographer Jacqueline Nolan and GIS analyst Timothy St. Onge produced nearly fifty maps and geo-graphic analysis reports for Congress, the Congressional Research service, the Law Library, and Library Services. These cartographic products focused on energy, national security, unem-ployment, public health, tribal issues, the climate, national and state infra-structure, state industries, and human-itarian responses.

The Reference and Research Team provided Geography and Map orientations for 3180 persons in 240 group visits, including Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for Communica-tions and Information, and Mrs. Elaine Ng, CEO of the National Li-brary Board of Singapore (pictured on page 1).

Several critical vacancies were filled during the year, bringing the total number of full time staff to thir-ty-six. Long time staffers Carlin Rene Sayles and Diane Schug-O’Neill were promoted to Collections Management Team Leader and Scan Lab Coordina-tor, respectively.

By Ralph E. Ehrenberg

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The Russian Civil War Commemorated in Set of Dynamic Maps

As an old regime is replaced by a new one, so too its regalia and symbols of authority are dismantled and replaced by revolutionary ones, and lend them-selves to the reconstruction of society. This phenome-non was no less evident in Russia, which underwent a revolution in 1917 that sent repercussions throughout the remainder of the twentieth century. The nation’s new communist rulers relied on the language of politi-cal identity to create a new state. This revolution in power incurred a revolution in the nation’s cultural language, one which involved a variety of expressions – not just words and text – but symbols, icons, plastic and theatrical arts, festivals, ritualized slogans and be-havior, flags, posters, and even maps.

The Library’s Geography and Map Division holds a little studied, yet striking series of ten Soviet

propaganda maps that reflect this seismic political and cultural shift in the world’s largest country. Issued as posters in 1928 by the Division of Military Literature of the State Publishing House of the Red Proletariat, the maps commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution and the subsequent Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War from 1918-21. Vibrant, dynamic, and political, the maps highlight specific episodes and major events of that period, and were designed to be displayed in schoolrooms, offices, factory floors, and other public venues. They emphasize the Bolshevik’s precarious hold on power in the turbulent years that witnessed Russia’s transformation into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Part of a larger program communicating propaganda through art, the maps blend revolutionary elements, which symbolized a prescribed course for a new Communist society, with older traditions of Russian art, notably icons and folk art. They appear to be the first set of uniformly drawn and thematically coherent propaganda maps issued by the Soviet state, and continue the Russian tradition of widely disseminating political information by way of striking visual images, uni-versal symbols, and pictorial rhetoric that would be comprehensible to a population being educated in preparation for the creation of a new Soviet industrial state.

Considering their historical content, as well their aesthetic value, one can interpret them as manifestations of a desire to forge a new Soviet national identity. Russia lay at a critical junction in its history in 1928, old Russia being re-placed by the world’s first Communist-governed nation. Joseph Stalin and his followers required support for their radical new policies in industry and agriculture, which were not universally accepted. The country was also facing challenges in the way it stood out as a new and potentially powerful state, as well as in the ways the Russian people viewed themselves in political and cultural arenas. The maps, in a literal sense, were graphic images used as part of a plan to promote a new Soviet identify via the writing of its own revolutionary history, to vindicate claims to territories of the former Russian em-pire newly incorporated into the fledgling Soviet state, and to define Soviet geo-political space.

By Michael Klein and Anthony Mullan

Senior Reference Specialists

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This map, the third in the series, is titled in translation Plan of the Entente to Suffocate the Soviet Regime, May-October 1918. It illustrates the spontaneous up-rising of the roughly 40,000 Czech troops stranded in Siberia in the spring of 1918. Their options for egress lim-ited, they chose to stay in Russian and fight on behalf of the local anti-Bolsheviks. Within a matter of weeks they managed to occupy a significant stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway, thus providing the Allies of World War I with a windfall for fighting the Central Powers. Though the Czech uprising was spontaneous, the Soviets continued to maintain that it had been fomented by the Entente – essentially the Allies -- to help overthrow the Bolshevik Revolu-tion of October/November 1917. With the end of the First World War in November 1918, Allied intervention, though short-lived and negligible, transitioned to as-sisting the anti-Bolshevik governments. The Allied presence in Russia is emphasized by seven flags hoisted over Omsk and Chelyabinsk — those of France, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Imperial Russia, and the newly-formed Provisional Govern-ment of Siberia. Battle ships heading towards ports in norther Russia and Vladivostok depict the Allied incursion. The rela-tively small area in red surrounding Moscow suggests that the outcome of the revolution was still uncertain.

This map, the sixth in the series, is titled in translation Denikin’s Campaign on Moscow, and focuses on the largest but flawed counterrevolutionary campaign of the Civil War: General Anton Denikin’s attempt to drive his troops over a thou-sand miles from the southern base of operations in an effort to capture Moscow in July-October 1919.

Opposition began almost immediately after the October/November 1917 Communist Revolution. Counterrevolu-tionary forces, commonly known as the Whites, launched major offensives in the spring, summer, and fall of 1919 on three

separate fronts. Ultimately all were driv-en back by superior Red forces. The change in the tide of war is reflected in its northwestern and eastern theaters, where Red Army soldiers are viewed mounting counterattacks against their White opponents, colored green. Alt-hough Bolshevik success during this period was never assured, proponents managed to spread their influence over a sizable chunk of the country by fall 1919. The extent of their success is il-lustrated by the backdrop consisting of the Soviet star, which intensifies in gra-dations of revolutionary red as it moves further from Moscow, the seat of Soviet power.

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Women’s History Month at the Division During March of 2016, in honor of Women’s His-tory Month, the Geography & Map Division’s new blog, Worlds Revealed, featured weekly posts about the history of women in geography and cartography. Women cartogra-phers and geographers envisaged, engraved, drew, and printed every kind of map imaginable, from the mediocre to the magnificent, just like their male counterparts. From detailed city surveys, to colorful pictorial maps, women throughout history were involved in the production and consumption of geography and cartography.

There is a long tradition of women being intricate-ly involved with the largest map publishing houses. Wives, daughters, sisters, and widows took part at every level of production: engraving, printing, coloring, and publishing as ateliers utilized a large network of family members to cre-ate their maps. It was not uncommon for a widow to take charge of a publishing operation or inherit the guild rights upon the death of a husband.

Anna van Westerstee Beek (1657-1717), also spelled Beeck, was one of these successful women. In 1678 she married the art dealer and publisher Barent Beek and began a long career in the map publishing trade. Beek was granted a divorce by the local courts, after her husband deserted her and their seven children in 1693, and took over the business from her estranged husband.

We know of approximately sixty prints and maps published under her name between 1667 and 1717, and thirty of which are currently in the collections of the Geog-raphy and Map Division. Looking at the maps we have

attributed specifically to Beek, it is clear that she specialized in drafting city plans, charting naval invasions, mapping ground troop movements, and depicting battle lines. She picked the perfect time to enter the business of printing up-to-date maps of battle activity as the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 and spanned her entire career.

In the post-colonial United States, geography was considered a vital part of a child’s education. Early text-books published in the United States introduced young students to the fields of geology and mineralogy, the struc-ture of the solar system, and techniques for measuring lon-gitude and latitude. Among these was the popular work History of the United States, or Republic of America by Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870) that included an entire volume made up exclusively of maps. She was among the first Americans to offer educational opportunities to women and was an early proponent of the study of geography.

Willard’s pedagogical model at Troy Female Semi-nary was widely adopted by other colleges (including all-men schools) and her pupils moved throughout the United States establishing a network of schools to educate more women. Her approach to geography was groundbreaking in many different ways. As opposed to starting with global geography or the composition of the universe, she urged her fellow teachers to start on a more local scale. “Instead of commencing the study of maps with the map of the world, which is the most difficult to understand,” she and her co-author William Woodbridge wrote, “the pupil here begins, in the most simple manner imaginable, to draw a map of his own town.”

World’s Revealed also examined the work of the women involved with military mapping during World War II who were called “Military Mapping Mavens” or “Millie the Mappers.” In 2012, Nancy Goddin Miller, daughter of a “Millie the Mapper,” donated a collection of her mother’s drawings and exercises to the Geography & Map Division, as well as her grandfather’s field surveying instruments. Her mother, Vivian Virginia Johnston Goddin, produced these works as a part of her cartographic training in the Army Signal Corps at Aberdeen Proving Ground between 1942 and 1943. Without any prior formal training in draft-ing or cartography, Goddin became a certified draftsman for the Army Signal Corps and continued to make maps long after the war ended.

Women helped develop maps for the Battle of the Bulge, drafted topographic maps using aerial photography (photogrammetry), and compiled maps and charts just like Vivian Goodin. Some federal agencies, according to the

Continued on page 8 Vivian Virginia Johnston Goddin (left) and her team.

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Facts or Fictions: Conference Notice Debating the Mysteries of Early Modern Science and Cartography –

A Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta Marina

A conference celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1516 Carta marina (pictured below) will be held in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium on October 6 and 7, 2016. The morning of the first day will focus on some of the most mysterious scientific and cartographic questions of the medieval and early modern periods, including is-sues with maps like the Vinland Map and Marcian F. Rossi’s Map with Ship, with the afternoon looking at new scholarship on the Carta marina and its broad cultural context. The second day will feature a multi-media presentation created by the Galileo Museum in Florence in collaboration with the Geography and Map Division, covering all aspects of Waldseemüller’s life, historical context, and cartography he and his associates produced. On the evening of October 6, the 2016 Annual Jay I. Kislak Lecture on the History of the Early Americas will be delivered by best-selling author and historian of science Dava Sobel (author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter). Her lecture will focus on the early history of celestial cartography, which is also the subject of her new book to be released the week of the lecture. In the past this annual lecture has featured many best-selling authors and intellectuals like Charles Mann, Jared Diamond, Michael Coe, and MacArthur Fellow David Stuart. Facts or Fictions combines the Kislak Lecture and a celebration of the acquisition project that brought back togeth-er the Waldseemüller/Schoner materials in the collections of the Library. The Schoner Sammelband, containing both Wald-seemüller’s 1507 and 1516 Maps, as well as globe gores by Johannes Schoner, and the earliest printed star-chart by Albrecht Dürer, were recently donated to the Library by Madison Council member Jay Kislak. Late in 2015 the Library obtained the Dürer chart from the Prince of Wolfegg, which was the final missing piece of the original Sammelband as it was bound togeth-er by Johannes Schoner in Nuremburg in 1517. The conference will also feature talks from historians of early science, philosophy, and literature contextualizing some of the most profound cartographic mysteries of the early modern period. Sponsorship for the conference is provided by the Jay I. Kislak Family Foundation and the Gray Family Memorial Fund. Speakers include historians Kirsten Seaver on the Vinland Map, Ben Olshin of the Rossi’s Map with Ship, Chet van Duzer and Don McGuirk on the Carta marina, Joaquim Alves Gaspar on portolan charts, and Stephanie Wood on the Pue-bla-Tlaxcala contrived maps and manuscripts. There will be a special presentation by the Library of Congress’ Conservation Division on the science behind the preservation and encasement of the Waldseemüller maps. By John Hessler

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Revealing the World’s Most Secret State

North Korea has been called the Hermit Kingdom, but it cannot hide its activities completely from the spying eyes of satellites and the reports of defectors.

On February 24, Curtis Melvin of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Ryan Moore, a special-ist in the Geography and Map Division, addressed the history of North Korea and the mapping of its economy using open-source satellite imagery. The lecture titled “North Korea Uncovered: The Crowd-Sourced Mapping of the World’s Most Secret State” marked the inauguration of the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society’s new lecture series. More than 100 persons attended this interesting look at one of the world’s most secretive societies, which was held in the Library’s Mumford Room.

Mr. Moore traced some of the influences of North Korea’s current policies to pre-modern Korea’s isolationism, the Japanese occupation from 1910-1945, and the Korean War. He presented several maps from the Library’s collections that illustrate the psychology and disposition towards the outside world of a regime that has been trying to build a long-range missile.

He noted the importance of the military that guard the regime’s interests. North Korea’s armed forces are extreme-ly large in relation to its population; some 7.7 million people are in military or paramilitary service out of 24 million.

Mr. Melvin, who received a master’s degree in economics from George Mason University, also addressed the econ-omy that supports the regime, and its massive armed forces. Since 2006, he has been mapping governmental administrative boundaries and the locations of North Korean commerce and industry, as well as its infrastructure, including rail, major roads, and the nation’s electric grid. Information is gathered from defectors, diplomats, and official North Korea reports, which may announce the opening of a factory or a reconfiguration of a city’s boundaries. The data is then plotted on Google Earth.

A current development Mr. Melvin has been investigating is the special economic zones established by the Kim Jong-un regime to facilitate increased trade with China. He noted the very significant cost of building infrastructure for the zones.

Mr. Melvin’s Digital Atlas of the DPRK can be viewed online at 38 North.org. The publication has resulted in Mr. Mel-vin being barred from entering North Korea, a place he has visited in the past. Mr. Melvin hopes it will assist policymakers and diplomats develop strategies to improve the very strained and often tense relationship with North Korea.

By Ryan Moore

Special Collections Specialist

Women’s History Month at the Division

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Civil Service Commission, preferred to have women do drafting, computing, and photogrammetry because of their skill and aptitude. In a 1945 monograph the cartographer Hubert A. Bauer proclaimed that “with several years of excellent work to their credit, women’s place in cartography appears to be established.” “Millie the Mappers” and “Military Mapping Maidens,” with their expertise and talents, have helped pave the way for future generations of women to enter the fields of cartography and geography.

By Carlyn Osborn

Library Technician

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Acknowledgements

Waldseemüller Circle: $50,000—or more (cumulative)

Roger S. Baskes William B. Ginsberg David. M. Rumsey J. Thomas Touchton

Ptolemy Circle: $10,000—$49,999 (cumulative)

W. Graham Arader III Richard H. Brown Wesley A. Brown Ralph E. Ehrenberg Jenkins Garrett

Holzheimer Fund John F. Jameson

Jay Lester

Muriel & Norman B. Leventhal Family

Glen & Ellen McLaughlin Foundation

Nebenzahl-Spitz Foundation

Norfolk Southern Foundation

R.D. Parsons Isadore M. Scott

Julie & George Tobolowsky Fund

Alan Voorhees Eric W. Wolf William C. Wooldridge Abe Zale Foundation

Mercator Circle: $5,000—$9,999 (cumulative)

Richard B. Arkway, Inc. Assocation of American Geographers

Joseph Fitzgerald Warren Heckrotte Jewish Federation of Cleveland

Samuel H. Kress Foundation

MacLean-Fogg Company MapRecond Publica-tions

Albert H. Small Patricia M. van Ee

Luke A. Vavra Donald & Barbara Zale Family Fund

Lewis & Clark Circle: $1,000—$4,999 (cumulative)

ADC The Map People Christopher M. Baruth H.J. Baum Sanford H. Bederman John R. Bockstoce

William M. Brennan Scott J. Brody Stephen A. Bromberg William H. Browder Margaret R. Brown

Christian Brun Rand Burnette Douglas L. Burrill Lawrence C. Caldwell California Map Society

Cartographic Associates, LLC

Jonathan C. Coopersmith

Andrew J. Cosentino John P. Cosgrove Brock R. Covington

Donald H. Cresswell Bruce M. Cummins Fred Czarra Dana G. Dalrymple Robert J. Davanzo

Robert G. David Dick DePagter Randall A. Detro Louis DeVorsey John W. Docktor

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Acknowledgements

Georgette M. Dorn Robert H. Einhaus Barbara A. Fine Michael W. Fisher James A. Flatness

David B. Forer Richard M. Fox John W. Galiardo Sarah E. Gay George D. Glazer

Thomas D. Goodrich Robert N. Gordon John R. Greene Ronald E. Grim Robert Grogg

Dennis M. Gurtz Ronald R. Gustafson William N. Harris Michael D. Heaston John R. Hébert

Alfred A. Herman Judith F. Hernstadt Priscilla R. Hexter Robert A. Highbarger Hinckle and Sons

Jon R. Holt Alice C. Hudson Murry Hudson Marcia J. Kanner Herschel Kanter

Jeffrey A. Katz Jay I. Kislak James A. Kissko Janet E. Lanman Ronald A. Lindquist

Maine Community Foundation

Frederick J. Manning Trust

Map Store Inc. Martayan Lan & Au-gustyn Inc.

Kenneth B. McConnell

Barbara B. McCorkle Donald McGuirk Iris M. Miller P.J. Mode Mark Monmonier

David J. Morgan Peter Morris Gary W. North James S. O'Brien Old Print Gallery

Old Print Shop, Inc. Harold L. Osher Frank T. Padberg Theodore W. Palmer Paulus Swaen, Inc.

Donald W. Perkins Charles B. Peterson Philadelphia Print Shop Roni L. Pick Kiky Polites

Jeremy D. Pool Peter J. Porrazo Jonathan Potter Ltd. Dianne G. Powell William L. Pritchard

Pamela Rau Dennis Reinhartz William B. Resor George Ritzlin (Maps and Books)

Mark Rosenbaum

Leonard A. Rothman Thomas F. Sander John A. Sandor Constantine B. Scarvelis Seymour Schwartz

Daniel T. Seldin Robert Shilkret Jeffrey M. Siegal Society for the History of Discovery

Lawrence R. Stack

Richard R. Stander Richard Stephenson M.A. Stiffman Robert W. Stocker Superior Radiator Coils

Linda W. Swain Swets-Information Ser-vices , B.V.

Henry G. Taliaferro Norman J. Thrower Daniel H. Trachtenberg

Leslie Trager Richard Umansky Herman J. Viola Steven J. Vogel James V. Walker

Ann H. Wells Ieda S. Wiarda John A. Wolter Alberta A. Wood Rosalind L. Woodward

World View Antique Maps, LLC

Cordell D. Yee

Lewis & Clark Circle (Cont.): $1,000—$4,999 (cumulative)

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Acknowledgements

John P. Andrews Richard S. Baum Paul G. Bell Judith Blakely Don Brodie

National Council for

Geographic Education

Jacqueline Nolan Richard Phlederer Jack Spain

Mason-Dixon Circle: $250—$999

Map Fellows: $100—$249

Leland J. Blair Boston Rare Maps Inc. Alan C. Brody Deborah A. Chovanec Deepak Bhattasali Trust

Dwight B. Demeritt Paul T. Dziemiela Matthew H. Edney Evelyn Edson John English

Donald R. Falken Woodard E. Farmer John A. Fondersmith Stephen R. Fox Hunter M. Gaunt

Glenn S. Gerstell Marvin Gottlieb John M. Gubbins Robert J. Haber Lorna Hainsworth

Mary H. Hale Stephen R. Hanon Barry Harrelson Donald A. Heald John Huennekens

Hubert O. Johnson Juniper House Library Publications

Jack Kane Samuel Kendell Matthew Kirks

Joseph F. Kocian Peter Kouchzlzkos Peter A. Kroehler Clarence Kylander Christopher W. Lane

Harry C. Langelan Frank R. Lapena Walter G. Lewis Junius C. McElveen Robert McLean

Paul M. Mich Michael Miller Douglas G. Moore Richard D. Moore Reynolds Moore

Margaret C. Oberle Jeff O'Neal Thomas J. Overton David T. Painter Mary Pedley

Reinhard Perhab Ptolemaeus David B. Reed Kathleen M. Register Robert G. Rhodes

Jerry Schuessler Roberta I. Shaffer Fredric Shauger John R. Short Joseph J. Snyder

Susan Swanson Juliet Sweetkind-Singer R.E. True James T. Turner Judith Tyner

Carol Urness Vladimiro Valerio Richard R. Vondrak James W. Whitehead David Lee Williamson

Associate Map Fellows: $50—$99

William Brandenburg Kevin J. Brown David R. Budge Benoit J. Caron Coash Family Trust

Ronald F. Cold Karen S. Cook Donald C. Dahlman James R. Dyson Gary L. Fitzpatrick

William P. Gotschall Gerald L. Greenberg Thomas Hall George S. Jackson Steve Jones

Dewitt W. King Lillian E. Kovac Mary L. Larsgaard Marianne M. Mckee Robert J. Moir

Peter Morales Mary N. Morrow Renee Vanhoy David R. West Daniel Youd

John D. Zittel

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Steering Committee

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Ex Officio

Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Chief, G&M

John R. Hébert, Chief, G&M , 1999-2011

John A. Wolter, Chief, G&M, 1978-1991

Academic Advisors

George Tobolowsky, Texas (Chair)

Dianne G. Powell, Texas (Vice Chair)

Wesley A. Brown, Colo.

Robert David, Fla.

William B. Ginsberg, N.Y.

Arthur Holzheimer, Ill.

Jay Lester, N.C.

Glen McLaughlin, Calif.

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Ill.

Richard Pflederer, Va.

Seymour I. Schwartz, N.Y.

J. Thomas Touchton, Fla.

James Walker, Ore.

Ronald Grim, Boston Public Library

Alice Hudson, New York Public Library, Ret.

Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University

Mary Pedley, Univ. of Michigan

Dennis Reinhartz, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Ret.

Susan Schulten, Univ. of Denver

Norman J. W. Thrower, Univ. of California at LA, Ret.

Cordell D. K. Yee, St. John’s College, Annapolis