{"id":17479,"date":"2007-11-19T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T18:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2015-11-12T08:02:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:02:13","slug":"uwms-ags-library-stores-secrets-in-rare-cartography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwms-ags-library-stores-secrets-in-rare-cartography\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM\u2019s AGS library stores secrets in rare cartography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17572\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Baruth-1005iu6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17572\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Baruth-1005iu6.jpg\" alt=\"Curator Christopher Baruth displays some items from the Rare Materials Collection at AGSL. Baruth, an alumnus of UWM, began working at the AGSL in 1980, not long after finishing his graduate studies. (UWM photos by Alan Magayne-Roshak)\" width=\"350\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Baruth-1005iu6.jpg 350w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Baruth-1005iu6-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Curator Christopher Baruth displays some items from the Rare Materials Collection at AGSL. Baruth, an alumnus of UWM, began working at the AGSL in 1980, not long after finishing his graduate studies. (UWM photos by Alan Magayne-Roshak)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whales were the economic drivers of the 1850s. So important was this resource that the founder of the U.S. Oceanographic Office, Matthew Fontaine Maury, created a map showing the worldwide distribution of sperm and right whales in 1851.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhale oil then was like petroleum is today,\u201d says Christopher Baruth. \u201cThis is a graphic device that showed where the whales were located by type and season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baruth is curator of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library, where a copy of the whale map is one of thousands of rare cartographical materials and geographical photographs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px none #ffcc00;padding: 10px;float: right;width: 300px\">\n<p><strong>AGSL at a glance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>More than a million total items.<\/li>\n<li>Oldest original map in the AGSL is the <em>Mappamundi,<\/em> made in 1452 by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo.<\/li>\n<li>A half-million maps and charts, including manuscript charts of the Australian voyages of Captain James Cook, 1770.<\/li>\n<li>More than 9,000 atlases, including 15th century editions of Ptolemy\u2019s <em>Geographia.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>110 globes, including a 1613 globe done by Jodocus Hondius.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands of rare books and lithographs, including a copy of the first published world geography from the 15th century and a first-edition copy of \u201cMoby-Dick.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of thousands of photographs and slides, including early expeditions (both doomed and successful) to the polar regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"uwm_caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/about_uwm\/news_press\/admin\/about_uwm\/news_press\/ags_slideshow.cfm\">See a slideshow of some of the AGSL\u2019s most noteworthy treasures<\/a> (12 Mb Quicktime movie).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Quietly housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) since 1978, the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/Libraries\/AGSL\">AGS Library<\/a> contains more than a million items, half of which are maps and charts, some dating to 15th century, and some that aren\u2019t available anywhere else, even at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the items in the AGS collections is compounded by their connection to the society. AGS is the oldest national geographical society in the United States, founded in 1851 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Explorer-members, such as Charles Lindbergh, Robert Peary and Theodore Roosevelt, are among those who donated items associated with their exploits to the society over the years. Materials in the collection have been consulted not only by scholars, but also by the U.S. government during and at the end of both world wars. Today, it attracts scholars from as far away as Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a national treasure,\u201d says Robert McColl, professor emeritus of geography and East Asian studies at the University of Kansas, who in 2000 donated to AGSL his own geographical library, one of the best personal collections of Chinese materials in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"uwm_head_3\">Stories of intrigue<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17573\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Fetter-2l35tjc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17573\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Fetter-2l35tjc.jpg\" alt=\"History Professor Bruce Fetter looks at a 1669 map of the North America from an atlas of collected maps published in 1678 by the Sanson family of Paris. The map plots the Caribbean accurately, but the middle of the U.S. is quite shallow and California appears as an island!\" width=\"350\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Fetter-2l35tjc.jpg 350w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_Fetter-2l35tjc-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">History Professor Bruce Fetter looks at a 1669 map of the North America from an atlas of collected maps published in 1678 by the Sanson family of Paris. The map plots the Caribbean accurately, but the middle of the U.S. is quite shallow and California appears as an island!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McColl is one of the many travelers and scholars who, in addition to the famous, have helped build the collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to China early enough that I found some items that are terribly unique, that might have disappeared otherwise,\u201d says McColl. Through his contacts in China, he found many works and maps that might have been produced in limited quantities or pulled off the market.\u201d He also found rare books, sometimes bound in silk, in flea markets. \u201cPeople were selling them for food,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like that with the contents of the AGSL, says Baruth. Each piece testifies to the adventurers, rare circumstances and history behind them \u2013 with as much intrigue as any work of fiction found in the other stacks of the UWM Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Notable contents include a wide range of materials, from black-and-white renderings done by hand to digital spatial data, from turn-of-the-century photographs of <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/Library\/News\/polar_reception.html\">arctic exploration<\/a> to charts used by Charles Lindbergh to fly from New York to Paris in 1927.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"uwm_head_3\">Chicago Festival of Maps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17574\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_group-1jazrlo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17574\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_group-1jazrlo.jpg\" alt=\"AGS staff members are (from left) Angie Cope, map cataloging librarian; Jovanka Ristic, reference librarian and exhibits; Kay Guildner, administrative assistant; Susan Peschel, photographic collections librarian; Tom Brittnacher, geospatial data librarian; Christopher Baruth, curator; Ann Barnish, collections maintenance; and Cristina Miller, photographic collections, CGP-contents.\" width=\"350\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_group-1jazrlo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2007\/11\/AGS_group-1jazrlo-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AGS staff members are (from left) Angie Cope, map cataloging librarian; Jovanka Ristic, reference librarian and exhibits; Kay Guildner, administrative assistant; Susan Peschel, photographic collections librarian; Tom Brittnacher, geospatial data librarian; Christopher Baruth, curator; Ann Barnish, collections maintenance; and Cristina Miller, photographic collections, CGP-contents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked to choose a \u201cTop 10\u201d from the collection, Baruth shakes his head slowly and replies, \u201cThat\u2019s like asking you to rank your children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/Libraries\/AGSL\/festivalmaps.html\">three of the library\u2019s possessions<\/a> are on view at the Field Museum in Chicago, where the World Festival of Maps is hosting what many consider to be one of the greatest map exhibits of the century, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldmuseum.org\/maps\/\">Maps: Finding Our Place in the World<\/a>.\u201d In addition to the whale map described above, two more AGS holdings stand alongside cartographic gems from around the world at the exhibit, which runs through Jan. 27, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>One is a unique manuscript map from about 1910 of the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay. It was drawn from memory on the back of a missionary lithograph by an Inuit named Wetalltok, and given to Robert J. Flaherty, who created the film \u201cNanook of the North.\u201d It is the most accurate map of the islands then extant.<\/p>\n<p>The other item on loan is the <em>Mappamundi<\/em>, the oldest original map in the AGSL holdings, produced in 1452 by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo. The circular map, considered the finest example of a medieval wall map in the Western Hemisphere, shows the known world consisting of only Europe, Asia and Africa, a configuration Baruth calls a T-O map. (\u201cImagine a capital \u2018 T\u2019 inside a circle separating the three continents.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>As in many medieval maps, Jerusalem is situated in the center of the <em>Mappamundi<\/em>, and the names of regions were copied from those of a second-century geographer named Claudius Ptolemy. As the Age of Discovery advanced, Ptolemy\u2019s original work was filled in and expanded by explorers, spawning new editions called \u201cnovae tabulae.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AGSL has many such editions of these \u201cPtolemys,\u201d including a rare original from 1478 that was printed on vellum (animal skin).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"uwm_head_3\">Catalog incomplete<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1970s the AGS could no longer afford to archive its holdings and chose UWM to house the collection after a national search. It took nearly five years to orchestrate the move and surmount the legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>And Baruth concedes that riches may still lie hidden in the holdings.<\/p>\n<p>In the library\u2019s more recent history, Baruth unearthed two prizes from the wall-length bookshelf in his own office: a first-edition copy of \u201cMoby-Dick\u201d by Herman Melville and a travel book given to the AGS by a young Teddy Roosevelt. Neither was found in the catalog at the time.<\/p>\n<p>UWM Professor Bruce Fetter began specializing in both cartography and demography soon after UWM acquired the collection to better make use of the resource. He has been teaching a class on how to use the collection for 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis material is essential because it affects how we see the world,\u201d says Fetter. \u201cIt is a wonderful way of getting a picture of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quietly housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) since 1978, the AGS Library contains more than a million items, half of which are maps and charts, some dating to 15th century, and some that aren\u2019t available anywhere else, even at the Library of 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