Summary Information
Olive Jackman Thomas Papers
1931-1939
- Thomas, Olive Jackman, 1891-1958
Green Bay Mss 91; PH 2114
4.4 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 331 maps) and 0.1 c.f. (1 folder) of photographs
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Olive J. Thomas, professor of geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; consisting of drafts, notes, maps, and other materials gathered for her Ph.D. thesis on the geography of the Green Bay, Wisconsin area.
English
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Biography/History
Olive Jackman Thomas was born in Chicago in 1891. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Chicago in 1913 and a M.S. degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin in 1924. In 1913 Miss Thomas began teaching in the Hillside Home School at Spring Green, Wisconsin. She also held teaching positions at the Milwaukee-Downer Seminary from 1915 to 1918, the Milwaukee-Downer college from 1918 to 1928, the University of Rochester from 1928 to 1931, the Whitewater State Teachers College from 1934 to 1943, and finally at the Milwaukee State Teachers College from 1943 until her death in 1958. Miss Thomas was co-author with Ray Hughes Whitbeck of the book, The Geographic Factor: Its Role in Life and Civilization, published in 1932.
Scope and Content Note
This collection of papers consists of materials which Miss Thomas gathered and produced in the course of her thesis work for the Ph.D. degree in geography at the University of Wisconsin. Between 1931 and 1934, Miss Thomas was a Graduate Fellow and an Assistant in Geography at the university and it was during this period that this study was begun. The thesis was never finished in final form, but all of the research was completed and several rough draft editions of the paper are included in the collection. The title of the thesis was “A Chorographic Study of the Green Bay Portal; A Geographic Analysis of the Green Bay-De Pere Region of Wisconsin.” Though this is a geographic study, there is more than a little historical material. The study attempts to trace the development of the Green Bay area from the time of the earliest settlement up to the middle 1930s.
The collection consists of various drafts of the thesis from the earliest rough draft up to and including the drafts which were submitted chapter by chapter for approval, but which did not constitute a final edition. It should be noted that these various drafts, though essentially the same, do differ in content as well as mechanics. Some of these drafts contain mounted photographs of the area.
The balance of the collection consists of research notes, both organized and unorganized, which contain a great deal of information about the Green Bay area which is not included in the text of the thesis; miscellaneous articles and speeches which were a by-product of the thesis; some correspondence relative to the topic; various charts and graphs; some miscellaneous printed material; and maps which were either produced or collected by Miss Thomas in the course of her study. There were also a good many loose and unidentified negatives and contact prints. Some printed materials were also removed from the collection and sent to the library.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Frederick I. Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, July 1959.
Contents List
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Green Bay Mss 91
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Thesis drafts
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Box
1
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Introduction to Chapter IV
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Box
2
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Chapter IV to Chapter V
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Box
3
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Chapter V to Chapter VII
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Box
4
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Correspondence, 1906, 1932-1939
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Box
4
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Miscellaneous printed matter
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Box
4
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Charts and graphs
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Box
4
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Miscellaneous articles and speeches
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Box
4
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Miscellaneous unorganized notes
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Box
5-7
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Organized research notes
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PH 2114
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Negatives and contact prints
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