Subseries: 7D. Other Institutions, 1851-2006
Scope and Content Note: This subseries includes correspondence with other institutions, organizations, and societies, either of a geographic or scientific nature. The materials mostly deal with honors that were given to or by the AGS and events that the AGS participated in such as dinners, conferences, or other international gatherings. Contains correspondence, photographs, programs, and miscellaneous awards and certificates.

Geographic Institutions

Association of American Geographers

AGS reception, Washington, D.C.

Army Map Service, 1968

photographs, 1968

Soviet Geography: Review and Translation, 1968

first joint meeting, roll call, 1914

general, 1902-1928

joint meeting, attendees in front of AGS building, photographs, circa 1922

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notes on history, undated

register of participants, 1928
Physical Description: 1 volume 

Explorers Club

annual dinner, photograph, 1949

general, 1930-1937, undated

Fifth International Conference on Cartography, photograph, 1970

Geographical Society of Philadelphia

dinners, 1968-1969

presentation of Elisha Kent Kane medal to Finn Ronne, photograph, 1966

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Geographical Society of Rio de Janeiro, 1903

International Geographical Congresses

general, 1875-1934

3rd, Venice, Prime Meridian/Standard Time discussion, George M. Wheeler, 1883

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8th, United States

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• Henry G. Bryant, Eighth International Geographic Congress Scrapbook. AGSL Manuscript Collection 8.

group photograph taken in Philadelphia, 1904

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minutes to arrange congress, 1903-1904

scrapbook of congress, 1904
Physical Description: 1 volume 

12th, Cambridge, group photograph, incl. key, 1928

13th, Paris, pin, 1931

21st, New Delhi, photographs, 1968-1969

22nd, Montreal, photographs, incl. Livingstone medal presentation to Akin L. Mabogunje, 1972

27th, Washington, D.C., photographs, 1992

International Geographical Union, 1924-1935

Miscellaneous Scrolls, Honors, and Certificates presented to and by the AGS, 1868-1950

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Miscellaneous Societies

Antwerp, Royal Geographical Society of, Fernand de Jardin, 1901-1902

Australasia, Royal Geographical Society of, Thomas Elder, 1886

Bremen Geographical Society, M. Lindeman, 1879

California, Geographical Society of, J. Studdy Leigh, 1892

Canadian Geographical Society, Isaiah Bowman, 1930

China Geographical Society, Percy B. Trip, 1909

Dresden Geographical Society, Prof. Pattenhausen, 1913

Florence, mayor, Piero Torrigiani, 1898

Hungarian Geographical Society, invitation, 1922

La Paz, Geographical Society of, Manuel Ballivián, 1897

Lima, Geographical Society of, J. Balta, 1891-1913

Lisbon, Geographical Society of, Luciano Cordeiro, 1889-1896

Madrid, Geographical Society of, Francisco Coello, 1890

Mexican Geographical and Statistical Society, J. Miguel Arroyo, 1865

Mexican Geographical and Statistical Society, invitation, 1917

Pacific, Geographic Society of the, George Davidson, 1892-1905

Pan-American Geographical Society, Frederic W. Cook, 1933

Parahybano, Historical and Geographical Institute, invitation, 1916

Philadelphia, Geographical Society of, Henry G. Bryant, 1911-1912

Polish Geographical Society, Roger Battaglia, 1896

Russian Geographical Society, Pyotr Semyonov, 1895

Swedish Anthropological and Geographical Society, AGS, 1912

Tokyo Statistical Society, Hiromoto Watanabe, 1898

Toulouse, Geographical Society, J. de Rey-Pailhade, Documents sur L'Heure Décimale de la Convention Nationale, 1899

National Geographic Society

correspondence, 1889-1917

resolution offering condolences on the death of Charles Daly, signed by A.J. Henry and Alexander Graham Bell, 1899

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Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH)

dinner given by Fairchild Aviation Corporation, photograph, 1943

Quito meeting

exhibit display panels, 1959

negative, 1959

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Physical Description: 1 nitrate negative 
Access Restrictions: Access to the nitrate negatives is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copies.

photographs, 1959

Rand McNally Second International Cartographic Conference

group photograph, 1958

photographs, 1958

program and correspondence, 1958

Royal Geographical Society, 1873-1930

Sociedad Chilena de Historia y Geografía, 1936-1942

Société de Géographie

correspondence, 1866-1900

membership certificate of Chandler Robbins, 1899

Scientific Institutions

American Museum of Natural History, 1894-1914

American Numismatic and Archeological Society of the City of New York, award given to AGS, 1881

American Society of Photogrammetry, dinner, photograph, 1938

Anglo-American Association, banquet in honor of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Isthmus of Panama, 1886

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British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting, photograph, 1924

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Chicago's World Fair, advisory committee, 1928-1931

Columbia University, incl. proposed summer school of geography, 1906-1912

Foreign Military Studies Office, hosts AGS, 2006

General, miscellaneous societies A-M

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Joseph Leidy Commemorative Meeting, 1923

American Academy of Arts and Letters, invitation, 1923

American Museum of Natural History, invitations incl. Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921-1934

American Numismatic Society, invitation, 1930

American Philosophical Society, invitations, 1892-1927

American Russian Institute, Cheluskin Arctic Expedition ceremony, 1934

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, celebration, 1930

Argentina, Society of Natural Sciences, exchange of publications, 1916

British Association for the Promotion of Science, annual meeting, 1876

Charge d'Affaires of Mexico, invitation, undated

Illinois, University of, invitation, 1931

Ireland, Royal Geological Society of, donations, 1879

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invitations, 1923-1930

Minnesota Historical Society, invitation, 1880

General, miscellaneous societies N-Y

National Academy of Sciences, invitations, 1924-1928

New York and Liberia Emigration and Agricultural Association, constitution and by-laws, 1851

New York, Board of Education, invitation, 1931

New York, College of the City of, invitation, 1928

New York University, invitation, 1927

Ohio, Western Reserve and Northern Ohio Historical Society, information card, undated

Padua, University of, invitation, 1922

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, invitation, 1924

Royal Geological Society, E. Wethered, 1882

Scientific Societies of Washington, D.C., joint commission, 1896

Smithsonian Institution, invitation, 1923

U.S. Department of Agriculture, pamphlet, 1896

Witwatersrand, University of, invitation, 1933

Yale University, invitation, 1921

Geological Society of America, 1935-1936

International Congress for the Study of Polar Regions, 1906

International Congress of Americanists, 1890-1923

International Council of Scientific Unions, 1932-1934

International Geological Congress, 1913-1933

International Joint Conference with the World Academy of Art and Science, photographs, 1970

International Polar Year, 1930-1933

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, honorary degree ceremony, photograph, 1939

National Academy of Sciences, annual meeting, Washington, D.C., group photograph, 1931

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Pan American Scientific Congress, Lima, 1924

Pan American Society, presentation of Order of the Liberator to Thomas W. Palmer, photographs, 1946

Russian Scientists, Geographers, and Explorers, photostat, undated