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Subject:        Re: OSS maps
Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:12:49 -0500
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & GIS Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks for supplying this information Joel! And yet, I believe Alice did
an article that was published in the SLA Geography and Map Division
/Bulletin/ or similar. I'll have to poke around when I can find time to
track this down...

Paige

At 09:07 AM 11/10/2009, you wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: OSS maps
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:05:02 -0500
> From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Maps-L Moderator wrote:
>>> In addition, I recall that Alice Hudson wrote a fantastic and
>>> interesting article on the OSS, its predecessor agency, and the
>>> people who were members of it (if memory serves correctly Walter
>>> Ristow was one???).
>>>
>>> Paige
> I believe the article is here:
>
> Hudson, Alice C.1995.The library’s map division
> goes to war1941­1945. Biblion: Bulletin of the New
> York Public Library 3(2):126­47.
>
> Ristow worked with the NY Office of Military Intelligence. There is
> additional discussion of geographers in the OSS--and other military
> agencies--here:
>
> Geographers in the U.S. government in Washington, DC, during World
> War II*. By: Harris, Chauncy D.. Professional Geographer, May97,
> Vol. 49 Issue 2, p245, 12p; Abstract Presents information on a study
> which focused on geographers in Washington, D.C., during World War
> II, and looks at the agencies with which they were affiliated.
> Information on the five agencies that employed the largest number of
> geographers during this period; Discussion on the impact of this
> period on geographers; In depth look at other finding of the study.
>
> The full text of the latter is available for those with access to
> Academic Search Complete.
>
>
> Joel Kovarsky