The collection contains records of the Golda Meir Library's Office for Map History. The records date from 1986 to1992, though the bulk date from 1987 to1990. Records largely involve the office's involvement with producing Maps and the Columbian Encounter, a large-scale exhibition of original maps from UWM's American Geographical Society Library and several other institutions, that was designed to coincide with the quincentenary of the European discovery of the New World.
One folder contains records from 1986 to 1987 and documents, to a small degree, the foundation of the Office for Map History.
