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AGS Library Archives
AAG Archives The archives of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) is located at the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Information on the archives and a table of contents can be found on the AGS Library's AAG Archives web page.
The William O. Field Archives include papers of the glaciologist and lecturer, mostly dating from the late 1920s and early 1930s. Field specialized in Russian geography and culture. The collection includes notes, postcards, travel journals, photographs and motion pictures of his journeys throughout the Soviet Union, especially Georgia and its upper Svanetia (Swanetia) regions (43N, 42E), from 1928 until the 1970s. Field’s partially indexed photographs and movie film contain images of Moscow from 1929-1931 and Georgia in 1933. Please contact AGS Library staff members for more information on the archives.
The National Wetlands Inventory includes photo-transparencies, the subsequently-created wetland maps, and other documents used in the creation of the National Wetlands maps. This collection includes photos, maps and notes from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and selected records from Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Texas, as well as, a few Midwestern military base locations. For more information, see the National Wetlands Inventory web page.
The Atlas of Disease is a series of maps, or plates, published by the American Geographical Society during the 1950s. The AGS Library houses the atlas as part of its cartographic collections. The AGS Library also houses the papers of Jacques M. May, which include medical statistics, preliminary maps, epidemiology of diseases, bibliographies, and academic studies of diseases as research for the Atlas of Disease. A finding aid can be found on the UWM Libraries Archives web page. Comments or questions for the AGSL? Send them to agsl@uwm.edu or call (414) 229-6282. |
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