-------- Original Message -------- 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]> References: <[log in to unmask]> 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]> > To: [log in to unmask] > References: <[log in to unmask]> > > > > 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 librarys 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