Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	Series: 2. Collections and Artifacts, 1723-2009, bulk 1851-1990
	Subseries: 2A. AGS Historical Material, 1851-2009 Scope and Content Note: This subseries consists of historical material about the AGS. Complied largely by John K. Wright, much of the material would end up being used by him in his book about the AGS: Geography in the Making (1952). Contains correspondence, clippings, AGS documents, and notes about the AGS.
Box 42 Folder 1-2	AGS Brochures and Stamps, 1870-1954, undated
	AGS General Clippings
Box 52 Folder 2	"Dr. Hayes Before the Geographical Society", 1861
Box 42 Folder 3	general, 1859-2002, undated
Box 52 Folder 2	"Great Northwest Lecture" by Ferdinand Hayden, 1874
Box 52 Folder 2	"The Meeting of the AGS at Chickering Hall", 1878
Box 42 Folder 36	AGS Constitution, 1851, undated
Box 42 Folder 4	AGS Miscellaneous, 1865-1934, undated
Box 42 Folder 5	AGS News, 1966-1967
Box 42 Folder 6	AGS Newsletters, 1946-1950
Box 42 Folder 7	AGS Organizational Chart, undated
Box 42 Folder 8	AGS Seal, 1927-1954, undated
Box 52 Folder 1	AGS Seal, original Ubique logo, undated
Oversize Folder 1	Autographs on Wall of Director's Office, photographs, photostats, and tracings, 1918-1953
Box 60	Director's Office Guestbook, incl. photostats that may have been sent to Russia, 1851-1966 Physical Description: 2 volumes
Box 43 Folder 1	Forrest Fund (Robert Lee), free distribution of Geographical Review, 1928-1930
Box 42 Folder 9	Graf Zeppelin Expedition clippings, 1929
Box 42 Folder 10	Guide to the Archives of the AGS (H1a), 1951-1956
Box 42 Folder 11	History of the AGS, 1950
	Inquiry and American Commission to Negotiate Peace
Box 42 Folder 12	clippings, 1917-1918 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 13	correspondence, 1918-1919 View selections from this folder
Oversize Folder 2	first map made by the AGS for the Inquiry and used at the Paris Peace Conference, 1917 View selections from this folder
Box 43 Folder 2	list of maps presented by Mark Jefferson, 1932 View selections from this folder
Box 43 Folder 3	maps purchased and list of Inquiry maps, 1919, undated View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 14	miscellaneous, 1919-1934 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 15	peace conference, 1918-1919 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 16	post war reconstruction, Hugo Koehler, 1922 View selections from this folder
Box 49 Folder 1	signatures of participants, photographs, 1923 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 17	List of Names for Unidentified Trip, undated
Box 42 Folder 18	Literary Questions, 1943, undated
Box 42 Folder 19	Obituaries, 1874, 1975-1996
	Peary-Cook Controversy
Box 42 Folder 20	Huntington's report and Bowman's views, 1909-1926 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 21	inquiries and publications about, 1909-1935 View selections from this folder
Box 42 Folder 22	Printed Materials, 1940-1972, undated
Box 43 Folder 4	Report by Bowman to President Roosevelt on Hemispheres, World War II, photostats, 1941
Box 42 Folder 23	Sargent, John Winthrop (imposter), 1918-1933
Box 42 Folder 24	Visit of Woodrow Wilson, clippings, 1916-1918
Box 49 Folder 2	Visit of Woodrow Wilson, photographs, 1918 View selections from this folder
	Wright, John K.
	AGS History (H8-H18)
Box 43 Folder 5-6	I, textual matter, undated
Box 43 Folder 7	II, tables and synopses, undated
Box 43 Folder 8-9	III, biographies, 1938-1952
Box 43 Folder 10-11	IV, council, finances, and honors, undated
Box 43 Folder 12	V, staff, statistics, undated
Box 43 Folder 13	VI, staff, autobiographies, 1949-1951
Box 43 Folder 14-15	VII, publications, notes, undated
Box 43 Folder 16-17	VIII, publications, statistics, undated
Box 43 Folder 18	IX, collections, centennial, and circulars, undated
Box 43 Folder 19-20	X, annual reports, undated
Box 52 Folder 3	XI, financial and staff tables, undated
Box 51	XII, notes on the history of the AGS, index, circa 1935-1950
Box 43 Folder 21	XII, notes on the history of the AGS, key, circa 1950
	Ubique [Geography in the Making (H1-H7)]
Box 55	illustrations and photographs, undated View selections from this box Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 43 Folder 22	materials for a history of the AGS, introduction, 1952
Box 42 Folder 25-35	ribbon copy, text and notes, undated
	Subseries: 2B. Donations and Acquisitions, 1723-1992, bulk 1854-1970 Scope and Content Note: This subseries contains artifacts of a geographical or historical nature that were either purchased by the AGS or donated to the AGS, and are often related to explorers and their expeditions. These artifacts include photographs, sketches, manuscripts, and flags, with many of the items containing correspondence concerning their acquisition. Some of the items are merely photostats or copies of the original documents. A few of the items came to UWM in 1978 and are located in the AGSL. There is also the original guide to the archives from 1956 in box 48, folder 1.	⇧
Box 56	Canvas Bag, used for radio papers by Anne M. Lindbergh, from Charles A. Lindbergh, 1931
Box 61-63	Collector Plates, Columbus Discovering the New World, by Mark Myers, 1992
Box 46 Folder 1	Door, Stanley-Livingstone House, door, declined, 1927-1932
	Drawings, Flaherty, Robert J., Inuit Sketches
Box 64 Folder 1	from Robert J. Flaherty, 1918
Box 64 Folder 2	lithographs, undated
Box 64 Folder 3	loose sketches, undated View selections from this folder
Box 64 Folder 4	notebook, undated View selections from this folder Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 44 Folder 1	Drawings, New York Athenæum Club House, pencil sketch with autographs, 1860 View selections from this folder
	Edmund Fanning Collection
Box 46 Folder 2	Canton notebook, 1801 View selections from this folder
Box 54	"Concern for the Ship Betsey," notebook of receipts, 1799-1800 View selections from this box Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 46 Folder 3	gift of Sidney Bradford, 1931-1934 View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 4	letters from Edmund Fanning, 1810-1836 View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 5	letters from John Fanning Watson, 1837-1840 View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 6	letters from William and Nathaniel Fanning and Nathaniel Palmer, 1805-1824 View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 7	memorial of Edmund Fanning, 1840 View selections from this folder
Box 54	Narrative of the Recent Voyage of Captain Ross to the Arctic Regions by Edwin Williams, 1835 Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 46 Folder 8	notebook of receipts and invoices from the Brig Betsey, 1797-1799 View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 9	notes and correspondence, 1817, undated View selections from this folder
Box 46 Folder 10	photostats of collection, undated
Box 54	Voyages Round the World by Edmund Fanning, 1833 Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 44 Folder 2	Etchings, Raven, Anton A., 1914
Box 65	Fan with an Arctic View, presented by Sir John Ross to Miss Allington, from F.A. Stout, 1871 View selections from this folder
	Flags
Box 69	AGS Small Expedition Flag, undated
Box 70	Hall, Charles F., flag carried by Hall to King William's Land, 1869
Box 44 Folder 3	Identification Tags for Expedition Flags, undated
Box 71	Ross, John, flag carried in the Arctic by Ross' expedition, 1829
Box 72	Wilkins, George H., American flag carried by Wilkins on his Arctic flight from Alaska to Spitsbergen, 1928
	General
Box 44 Folder 4	Archival Materials Not Cataloged, circa 1970
Box 44 Folder 5	"Catalogue of a Collection of Books", 1897
Box 46 Folder 11	Correspondence Regarding Miscellaneous Objects and Other Donations, 1865-1940
Box 44 Folder 6	Daly, Charles P., books from his library, undated
Box 48	Documents from the Archives, 1933 Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 44 Folder 7	Ford, James B., books from his library, from Louis Bishop, 1928
Box 48 Folder 1	Guide to the Archives, 1956
Box 44 Folder 8	Inventories, 1931, undated
Box 46 Folder 12	List and Location of Curios, Paintings, and Other Items in the Collection, 1902
Box 44 Folder 9	List of Articles That Once Belonged to the AGS, undated
Box 44 Folder 10-11	List of Early American Imprints in AGS Library, circa 1930
Box 50	List of Early American Imprints in AGS Library, index, circa 1930
Box 44 Folder 12	Payne Collection, report by C.B. Osgood, 1932
Box 44 Folder 13	Rare Items Offered for Sale, 1902-1940
Box 44 Folder 14	"Research Materials in New York: A Guide to Resources", 1977
Box 46 Folder 13	Scientific Instruments, 1932-1976, undated
Box 48 Folder 2	Shelf Classification, guide, undated
Box 48 Folder 3	Systematic Classification for the Research Catalog, undated
	Globes
Box 44 Folder 15	Copley, Charles, identification tag, undated
	Fliers' and Explorers' Globe
Box 44 Folder 16	descriptions of globe and list of signers, 1929-1962, undated View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 17	gift of John H. Finley, 1929-1933 View selections from this folder
Box 49 Folder 3	photographs, 1929-1969, undated View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 18	tracings of names on globe, 1937 View selections from this folder
Box 437 Folder 2	Wilson, Hondius, and Behaim, negatives, 1968 Physical Description: 2 safety film negatives
Box 49 Folder 4	Wilson, Hondius, and Behaim, photographs, 1968-1970, undated View selections from this folder
	Louise A. Boyd Donation of 28 February 1931
Box 46 Folder 14	copy of log from M/S Hobby, 1926 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 19	general, 1931 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 20	Holm's log of M/S Hobby, 1928 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 21	list of geographic names in Norwegian and English, undated View selections from this folder
Box 52 Folder 4	maps of Arctic searchings, 1928 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 22	Norwegian Royal Seaplanes F36-F38, 1928 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 23	report of searchings by Hovdenak, undated View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 24	telegrams from King Haakon VII, 1928 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 25	"With Dogteam Searching for the Italia Crew" by Rolf S. Tandberg, undated View selections from this folder
	Maps
Box 58	Beatus World Map, negatives, undated Physical Description: 2 glass negatives Access Restrictions: Request the assistance of an archivist to view the glass negatives.
Box 44 Folder 26	British Guyana, "Comprehending the Colonies," from Theodore Barrell, 1915-1931
Box 44 Folder 27	Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Juan de la, Humboldt Map of South America, 1928-1958
Oversize Folder 3	Dickinson, Robert L., Palisade Interstate Park, drawings and sketches, circa 1910 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 28	Dickinson, Robert L., Palisade Interstate Park, from Charles C. Curran, 1941 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 29	Mercator's World Map of 1538, description, undated
Box 58	Mercator's World Map of 1569, negative, undated Physical Description: 1 glass negative Access Restrictions: Request the assistance of an archivist to view the glass negatives.
Box 44 Folder 30	Leardo Map of the World, 1452, from Archer M. Huntington, 1905-1906
Box 58	Pomponius Mela, negative, undated Physical Description: 1 glass negative Access Restrictions: Request the assistance of an archivist to view the glass negatives.
Box 52 Folder 5	Requin, Edouard, Battle of the Marne, photostat, 1932
Box 44 Folder 31	Stevens, D.R.P., sketch maps of North American Rivers, undated
	Manuscripts
Box 46 Folder 15	Bordewich, Henry, Norwegian Fisheries, undated
Box 44 Folder 32	Braun, John, "First Ascension of Volcano 'Turrialba' near Cartago in Costa Rica", undated
Box 44 Folder 33	Columbus, Christopher, De Nouo Orbe, The History of the West Indies, copy, undated
Box 46 Folder 16	Cook, Capt. James, logbook, from Ralph M. Hudson, photostat, 1931
Box 44 Folder 34	Description de l'Égypte (1809), from Henry Coggill, 1902
Box 44 Folder 35	De Toledo, Don Francisco, founding of the University of Lima, from Isaiah Bowman, photostat, 1931
Box 46 Folder 17-18	Detzner, Hermann, materials regarding "Four Years Among the Cannibals," from Ernst Mayr, 1929-1932, undated
Box 47 Folder 1	Discovery of Heard Island, copy of log book and journal, from Hubert Wilkins, 1930
Box 44 Folder 36	Estorgo, Don Francisco, logbook of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad 1766-1767, copy, 1931
Box 53 Folder 3	Formosa Manuscripts, land contracts with China written by aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan, from Joseph B. Steere, 1723-1776 View selections from this folder
Box 44 Folder 37	Griffin, Cora, "Romantic Origin of the First American Arctic Expedition," article on Grinnell Expedition, 1932-1933
	Griffin, Samuel P., "Aid to Navigation for Steamers", from Cora Griffin Related Material in the UWM Libraries Samuel P. Griffin Logbooks. AGSL Manuscript Collection 33.
Box 44 Folder 38	correspondence, 1929
Box 44 Folder 38-51	manuscript, undated
Box 45 Folder 1	manuscript, undated
Box 47 Folder 2	map of Panama Canal area, undated View selections from this folder
Box 47 Folder 3	Hall, Fayrer, A Short Account of the First Settlement of the Provinces of Virginia, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1735
Box 47 Folder 4	Heath, E.R., "Hieroglyphics Found on Rocks at the Falls and Rapids of Rivers Maderia and Mamore", undated
Box 47 Folder 5	Hunt, William H., papers on Madagascar, 1904
Box 45 Folder 2	Jesuit Manuscript, "Relación de las Misiones de Guaranís o Tapes de la Provincia del Paraguay," from C.U. Clark, photostat, 1930
Box 47 Folder 6	Jones, Thomas ap C., proclamation and general order taking possession of California, from Milton Cogswell, 1870
Box 47 Folder 7	Landis, E.B., Island of Kang-hua, undated
Box 47 Folder 8	Maury Island, correspondence, photostats, from A.M. Parmelee, 1926-1928
Box 53 Folder 1	Nordqvist, Oscar, "Tschuktschisk Ordlista" (Chukchi language glossary), annotated proof, from J.B. Gilder, 1928 View selections from this folder
Box 47 Folder 9	Parry, William E., "Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage" with annotations by Charles F. Hall, from John Baynes, 1902
Box 53 Folder 2	Petition to Congress in regard to Kane's Relief in the Arctic 1855, from Marshall C. Lefferts, 1908 View selections from this folder
Box 47 Folder 10	Reports to Matthew C. Perry on Cape Verde Islands, from C. Boggs, H. Bridge, and H.S. Stellwagen, 1843-1844
Box 45 Folder 3	Serrano, Francisco de P., "Discurso Pronunciado con Motivo del Anniversario de la Constitucion Politica de las Estados Unidos Mejicanos Promulgada en 1857", 1863
Box 45 Folder 4	Skottsberg, Carl, letter exploring Juan Fernandez Islands, translation, 1917
Box 45 Folder 5	Stapler, John T.G., "Lieutenant Samy Bey and the Pyramids of Fezzan", 1910
Box 45 Folder 6	Stuck, Hudson, diary on ascent of Mt. Denali (McKinley), from John W. Wood, 1921 View selections from this folder
Box 45 Folder 7	Tappan, Benjamin, data on Wilkes Expedition from journal of Tappan, copy, 1843
Box 68	Unidentified, notebook found aboard the HMS Resolute, from W.C. Leveridge, 1854 View selections from this box Physical Description: 1 volume
Box 47 Folder 11	Veeder, M.A., "Changes in the Condition of the Sun" and "The New York Blizzard", 1888
Box 45 Folder 8	Veiga, Francisco Xavier de, "Diario da Viagem", photostat, 1918
Box 47 Folder 12	Warwick, Arthur S., "Angkor Wat", 1928
	Medallions
Box 74 Item 4	Amerigo Vespucci, 1903
Box 74 Item 2	Amundsen-Ellsworth Crossing the Polar Sea, 1926
Box 73 Item 8	Bicentenary of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal, 1906
Box 74 Item 7	Congresso International de Americanists, 1922
Box 73 Item 6-7	Discipulus Est Priori Posterior Dies, undated
Box 74 Item 1	Fridtjof Nansen, 1897
Box 74 Item 6	J.A. Palmén, 1915
Box 74 Item 11	James Smithson, bicentennial 1765-1965, 1965
Box 74 Item 5	Marco Polo, Italian Scientists Meeting, Venice, 1847
Box 74 Item 8	Memorial to Friendly Cooperation Between States, New York-New Jersey, 1931
Box 73 Item 9	Polar Expedition of Fridtjof Nansen, undated
Box 74 Item 9	Richard E. Byrd, Commemorating the Conquest of the Poles, 1926-1929
Box 73 Item 5	Secretaria de Edvcacion Pvblica 1825-1925, Mexico, Museo Nacional de Arqueologia, Historia, y Ethnografia, 1925
Box 74 Item 3	Sir Francis Drake, 1907
Box 74 Item 12-13	Waclaw Nalkowski, Polish Geographical Society, 1934
Box 45 Folder 9	Notes, Haushofer, Karl, from Alexander Melamid, 1941
	Paintings and Photographs
	A.J. Russell and S.J. Sedgwick Collection of Transcontinental Railroad Photographs Note: See also Occasional Publication #3
Box 45 Folder 10	"Article V: Railroad to the Pacific" by Henry Poor, copy, 1854
Box 45 Folder 11	correspondence, 1968-1975
Box 45 Folder 12	gift of A.C. Combes, 1940-1941
Box 45 Folder 13	list of negatives compiled by William Pattison, 1961
Box 45 Folder 14	sale to Oakland Museum, 1968-1970
Box 45 Folder 15	"Sedgwick's Illustrated Course of Lectures and Catalogue", copy, 1874
Box 45 Folder 16	"The Next Hundred Years of Transcontinental Railroads" by Harold Mayer, 1968
Box 49 Folder 5	Aerial Photographs of Peking, U.S. Navy, 1923 View selections from this folder
Box 45 Folder 17	David Livingstone and Frank Vardon, from George L. Harrison, 1932
Box 49 Folder 6	Early New York Railroads, from William O. Field, photographs, 1981 View selections from this folder
Box 47 Folder 13	General Correspondence, 1893-1917
Box 57 Folder 1	House at Audubon Park, future site of AGS building at Broadway and 156th Street, from John Harden, 1864 View selections from this folder
Box 45 Folder 18	Operti, Albert, "The Last Franklin Search", correspondence, 1894-1932 View selections from this folder
Box 52 Folder 6	Operti, Albert, "The Last Franklin Search", photograph, undated View selections from this folder
Box 437 Folder 2	Palmer, Nathaniel B., negatives and positives, undated Physical Description: 1 safety film negative Physical Description: 2 film transparencies
Box 47 Folder 14	Pennington, Harper, portrait of Charles P. Daly, 1899
Box 49 Folder 7	Plate Honoring George W. Melville on his 70th Birthday, 1911 View selections from this folder
Box 49 Folder 8	U.S. Coast and Geodetic Steamers Surveying the Philippine Islands, from Philip A. Welker?, undated View selections from this folder
Box 58	Vespucci, Amerigo, negative, 1903 Physical Description: 1 glass negative Access Restrictions: Request the assistance of an archivist to view the glass negatives.
Box 59	Wrigley, Gladys M., photographs of White Mountains Vacation, 1915 View selections from this folder Physical Description: 1 photograph album
Box 45 Folder 19	Zuccaro's Mercator, from William B. Hill, 1931
Box 66-67	Printing Press Plates, miscellaneous plates, undated
Box 45 Folder 20	Scrapbooks, Grinnell, Henry, from Dorothy Grinnell, 1937-1938 Related Material in the UWM Libraries Henry Grinnell Scrapbooks. AGSL Manuscript Collection 2.
Box 45 Folder 21	Scrolls, Tira de Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, from A.E. Place, 1917 View selections from this folder
Box 45 Folder 22	Sculptures, O'Donovan, William R., marble bust of Charles P. Daly, 1899-1901
Box 45 Folder 23	Solar Timepiece, Timby, Theodore R., description, undated
Box 45 Folder 24	Stove, Cook, Frederick A., stove donated to the National Archives by the AGS, 1974
Box 45 Folder 25	Theodolite, Hedin, Sven, from Brooke Dolan, 1945
	Subseries: 2C. Portrait File, circa 1880-2000 Scope and Content Note: Contains portrait photographs and drawings of various geographers, explorers, and AGS personnel. For an itemized list of individuals in the portrait file, see the index. Other Finding Aids Index to Portrait File	⇧
Box 444	Negatives, undated Physical Description: 26 safety film negatives
	Photographs
Photo 1	Explorers, Geographers, AGS Staff, etc., A-P, circa 1880-2000 View selections from this folder
Photo 2	Explorers, Geographers, AGS Staff, etc., Q-Z, circa 1880-2000
	Oversize
Box 57 Folder 2	AGS Staff, group, incl. Cullum and Daly, circa 1890 View selections from this folder
Box 57 Folder 3	Appleton, Nathan, 1882/3 View selections from this folder
Box 57 Folder 4	Boyd, Louise A., undated View selections from this folder
Box 57 Folder 3	Cullum, George W., undated
Box 57 Folder 3	Dauzats, Vincent, 1882/3
Box 57 Folder 3	Peary, Robert E., 1898
Box 47 Folder 15	Requests for Portrait Photographs, 1926-1927

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