Midwest Archives Conference Records, 1972-2021

Subseries: 8C. Other Regions, 1871-1976
Scope and Content Note: This subseries includes the correspondence, reports, and photographs from expeditions and explorers who journeyed to locations other than polar regions, ranging from the United States, Asia, Africa, and South America. It includes materials from explorers such as Isaiah Bowman, Victor Von Hagen, and William Morris Davis, who led the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912. Additional photographs from some of these expeditions may also be in the AGSL Photograph Collection; please consult a staff member for more information.
Africa
Box   265
Folder   11
Ansorge, William J., summary of itineraries in Angola, 1903-1910

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Box   270
Folder   1
Chaillé-Long, Charles, correspondence, 1879-1910, undated

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Box   265
Folder   16
Cook, O.F., Liberia, 1893
Box   265
Folder   12
Du Chaillu, Paul B., correspondence, 1892-1903

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Box   265
Folder   16
Holub, Emil, South Africa, 1893

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McKiernan, Gerald
Box   270
Folder   2
biographical sketch, undated

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Box   270
Folder   3
Box   270
Folder   4
correspondence, 1875-1878

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Box   320
diary and narrative journal, 1874-1879

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Physical Description: 3 volumes 
Box   265
Folder   13
geographical notes, 1874-1878

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Box   270
Folder   5
Box   272
Folder   13
photographs, 1878-1879, undated

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Box   265
Folder   14
portions of journals, 1874-1879

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Box   265
Folder   15
Box   270
Folder   6
Asia, Von Hagen, Victor W., Royal Persian Road, 1968-1976

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Box   265
Folder   17
Bolivia, Peck, Annie S., expedition to Bolivian Andes (not funded), 1899-1912

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Brazil
Fawcett, Percival H., Brazil Expedition: 1925
Box   265
Folder   18
correspondence, 1924-1927

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Box   270
Folder   7
proposal, 1925, undated

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Box   265
Folder   19
request for financial support, 1919

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Rice, Hamilton
Oversize Folder   96
annotated maps and charts, 1919-1923
Box   270
Folder   8
seventh expedition to the Amazon, 1924-1925

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Box   265
Folder   20
Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition: 1913-1914, photograph, copy, 1914

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Canada
Bryant, Edward S., Labrador Expedition: 1908
Oversize Folder   97
maps, annotated, 1907-1916, undated

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Box   265
Folder   21
narrative and notes on trip, 1908, 1931

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Box   440
negatives, Mt. Komaktorvik, 1908

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Physical Description: 24 nitrate negatives 
Access Restrictions: Access to the nitrate negatives is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copies.
Box   265
Folder   22
"Northeastern Part of Labrador and New Quebec" by A.P. Coleman, 1921

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Box   265
Folder   23
notebooks, 1908

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Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   321
Box   275
Folder   4
photographs, panoramas, 1908

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Box   265
Folder   24
Comer, George, Hudson Bay, 2nd book journal, 1905

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Box   265
Folder   25
Forbes, Alexander, Labrador Expedition, incl. "Log of the Ramah", 1930-1931

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Note: See also boxes 159-160
Box   270
Folder   9
Radford, Harry V., Expedition to Northern Canada, 1908-1911

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Box   265
Folder   26
Wood, Walter A., Yukon Expedition, 1939

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Central Borneo, Lumholtz, Carl
Box   322
coconut dipper (from Lumholtz?), undated
Box   265
Folder   27
miscellaneous, undated
Box   323
panoramas, 1915-1916
Box   324
tapa cloth (from Lumholtz?), undated
Physical Description: 1 bark cloth 
Colombia, Cabot, Thomas D., Cabot Colombian Expedition: 1939
Box   265
Folder   28
angle book of Walter A. Wood, 1939

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Box   265
Folder   29
Box   265
Folder   30
Guatemala-Honduras, Ashmead, Percy, Economic Survey: 1919, correspondence, 1919

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Himalayas, De Terra, Helmut, Expedition to the Himalaya and Karakorum
Box   270
Folder   10
correspondence, 1930-1933, undated

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Box   275
Folder   5
Box   265
Folder   31
Mexico, Lumholtz, Carl, Expedition to Mexico, 1890-1895

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Miscellaneous
Box   265
Folder   32
Beebe, William, 1923-1925

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Bryant, Henry G.
Box   325-326
around the world trip, vols. 3-4, circa 1908

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Physical Description: 2 photograph albums 
Box   327
expedition to St. Augustine River, Labrador, 1912

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Physical Description: 1 photograph album 
Box   328
Labrador trip, 1891

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Physical Description: 1 photograph album 
Box   329
scrapbook of Peary-Cook clippings, 1909-1920
Physical Description: 1 volume 
Box   330
trip to Lappland/Scandinavia and surrounding areas, 1910

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Physical Description: 1 photograph album 
Box   265
Folder   33
Byrd, Richard E., Trans-Atlantic Flight, flag carried on trip, 1927

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Box   265
Folder   34
Explorers and Expeditions, correspondence and summary of expeditions

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Galliéni, Joseph Simon, Madagascar lecture, 1905
Heath, Edwin R., Bolivia, Heath River, 1910
Pöch, R., Kalahari expedition, 1909
Prynne, Charles M., African expedition of W.N. McMillan, 1903
Riker, C.L., Newfoundland, international breakwater, 1912
summary of AGS expeditions: 1878-1923, undated
Box   265
Folder   35
Riis, Serge M., Riis Expedition-Darwin Centenary Commemoration, 1936

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Mt. Everest, British Expedition
Box   272
Folder   14
photographs from the book The Conquest of Everest, 1954

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Box   437
Folder   10
photographs from the book The Conquest of Everest, negative, 1954
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative 
Box   265
Folder   36
New Guinea, Mjöberg, Eric, 1917-1919

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Box   265
Folder   37
Patagonia, Davis, William Morris, financial support, 1904

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Peru
Box   270
Folder   11
Bingham, Hiram, Yale Peruvian Expedition, 1912

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Miller O.M., Peruvian Expedition
Box   265
Folder   38
correspondence, 1927-1928

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Box   265
Folder   39
Box   270
Folder   12
Shippee, Robert and Johnson, George R., Peruvian Expedition, 1930-1931, undated

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Von Hagen, Victor W., Inca Highway Expedition
Box   331
AGS flag, 1953-1954
Box   437
Folder   10
negative, 1953-1954
Physical Description: 1 safety film negative 
Box   438
negatives, 1953-1954

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Physical Description: 11 nitrate negatives 
Access Restrictions: Access to the nitrate negatives is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copies.
Box   272
Folder   15
photographs, 1953-1954

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Box   265
Folder   40
press releases, 1952-1955

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Somalia, Smith, Arthur Donaldson, Expedition to British Somaliland
Box   265
Folder   41
correspondence, 1898-1900, undated

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Box   270
Folder   13
manuscript map, undated

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South America
Bowman, Isaiah
Box   265
Folder   42
Central Andes Expedition, 1913-1914

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Box   265
Folder   43
Copiapó Mining Co., journal by James Saunderson, 1827-1906

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Box   332
diary, original, 1907

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Box   265
Folder   44
diary, photocopy, 1907

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Box   333
diary, typed and carbon copies, 1907
Box   334
notebooks, 1911-1941, undated
Box   265
Folder   45-47
notes, 1911-1913, undated

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Box   413
Folder   10-15
photographs, incl. photos from Desert Trails of Atacama, circa 1907-1913

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Box   266
Folder   1
rhizome specimen found north of Tiahuanaco, 1913
Jefferson, Mark, European Colonization in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
Box   266
Folder   2
correspondence, 1917-1925

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Box   266
Folder   3
Box   266
Folder   4
Marbut, Curtis Fletcher, soil investigation, 1923

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Tibet
Box   266
Folder   5
Hedin, Sven, correspondence, 1920-1921

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Box   270
Folder   14
Lamb, Gene, Expedition to Northern Tibet, 1931-1934

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Nichols, Francis H., Expedition to Lhasa
Box   266
Folder   6
biography, 1904, undated

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Box   270
Folder   15
correspondence from Nichols, 1903-1904

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Box   266
Folder   7
documentation regarding Tibetan manuscript, 1906-1915

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Box   270
Folder   16
finances and settlement of estate, 1902-1908

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Box   271
Folder   1
financial support, 1902-1905

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Box   266
Folder   8
list of items given to AGS, undated

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Box   266
Folder   9
Box   271
Folder   2
safety of Nichols, 1904

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Box   271
Folder   3
summary of expedition, undated

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Box   266
Folder   10
Rockhill, William Woodville, correspondence, 1890-1907

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United States
Bowman, Isaiah
Box   266
Folder   11
Far West, field notebook, 1930

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Box   334
Western Trip, notebooks, 1921-1932
Note: See also box 182, folder 18
Box   266
Folder   12-13
Burg, Amos, Colorado River Trip, postcards, 1938

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Box   266
Folder   14
Dall, William H., Alaska, letter of introduction, 1875

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Davis, William Morris, Transcontinental Excursion of 1912
Box   336
bronze medallion, rubbing, and photographs, 1912

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Box   271
Folder   4
Box   275
Folder   1
Box   266
Folder   15
clippings and articles, 1912, undated

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Box   266
Folder   16
correspondence
Box   266
Folder   17-29
Box   267
Folder   1-8
Box   268
Folder   1
23 Oct 1912 - 14 Nov 1914

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Box   268
Folder   2
dinner and reception
Box   271
Folder   5
Box   268
Folder   3
invitations and programs, 1912

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Box   275
Folder   1
photograph, 1912
Box   271
Folder   6
Box   268
Folder   4
guidebook, copy, 1912

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Box   268
Folder   5
instructions, undated

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Box   268
Folder   6
interview with William Morris Davis, 1911

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Box   268
Folder   7
itineraries, 1911-1912, undated

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Box   271
Folder   7
list of excursionists and payments, 1911-1912, undated

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Box   268
Folder   8
list of maps, undated

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Box   268
Folder   9
mailing information, 1912, undated

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Box   271
Folder   8
map of route, undated

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Box   268
Folder   10
memorial volume, undated

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Box   268
Folder   11
miscellaneous, 1912, undated

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Box   438
negatives, 1912

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Physical Description: 6 nitrate negatives 
Access Restrictions: Access to the nitrate negatives is restricted; researchers must use the digital access copies.
Box   268
Folder   12
photographs
Box   272
Folder   16
excursionists, 1912, 1932

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Box   272
Folder   17
miscellaneous copies, 1912
Box   275
Folder   1
Niagara Falls group shot, 1912
Box   272
Folder   18
photographs of expedition and maps, 1912

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Box   272
Folder   19-20
portraits, 1911-1912, undated

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Box   268
Folder   13
registration forms (blank), undated

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Box   268
Folder   14
Box   268
Folder   15
Powell, John W., Colorado River Expedition
Box   271
Folder   9
diary of John F. Steward, copy, 1922
Box   271
Folder   10
diary of John F. Steward, "Through the Canyon of the Colorado", 1871

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Box   272
Folder   21
photograph of camp by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, 1871/2

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Stuck, Hudson, Ascent of Mount McKinley (Denali)
Box   268
Folder   16
correspondence, data, and photograph, 1910-1913
Box   335
diaries of Hudson Stuck, 1913

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Physical Description: 2 volumes 
Box   271
Folder   11
Venezuela, De Booy, Theodoor, correspondence, 1918-1919

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