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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 war1941–1945. Biblion: Bulletin of the New
   York Public Library 3(2):126–47.

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