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Summary Information
Jacques M. May Papers
1943-1960
- May, Jacques M. (Jacques Meyer), b. 1896
AGSL Manuscript Collection 3
2.5 cubic ft. (6 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, American Geographical Society Library (Map)
This collection contains professional and personal papers of
Jacques M. May when he was the director of the Medical Geography Department at the American
Geographical Society. The collection includes research for the Atlas
of Disease, which was a series of maps, or plates, published by the American
Geographical Society during the 1950s. Medical statistics, preliminary maps, epidemiology of
diseases, bibliographies, and academic studies of diseases are included as research for the
Atlas of Disease. The Atlas of
Disease was originally to contain 25 plates; only 17 were published. Each plate
corresponds to a specific disease, or group of diseases. Other professional activities of
Jacques M. May are documented in the collection, along with a small amount of personal
correspondence and family photographs.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-agsl-agslmss0003
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