Hi Julie,

I am remembering that Alice Hudson wrote an article on someone (Walter Ristow?) in which she covered aspects of when they worked on OSS maps. Published in SLA G&M Bulletin? or maybe Meridian? John Anderson at LSU would be an excellent resource as he has done a lot of research on OSS maps in his collection.

Paige

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From: "Julie Sweetkind-Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 2:59:00 PM
Subject: OSS maps question

Hi, all,

 

I’m researching the history of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) maps in order to learn more about our collections.  I’ve been searching for papers on this collection specifically and have yet to find a good article about the map production themselves – why, how the topics were chosen, etc.  Anyone know of work in this area?  I’ll keep searching, too, but thought I’d ask the collective mind.   Thanks!

 

Best,

 

Julie

 

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