Geography and Geology

Subject Listing:
Geography and Geology

Greene, Thomas A., 1827-1894.
Papers, 1886-1894.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection E
Papers of a Milwaukee druggist, consisting of correspondence and lists of specimens relating to his collection of minerals and fossils presented to Milwaukee-Downer College at Milwaukee in 1911. Finding aid available in the Archives.

North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature.
Records, 1948-[ongoing].
AGS Manuscript Collection 1
Records of a commission whose purpose was to develop statements of stratigraphic principles; review problems and to recommend procedures applying to classification and nomenclature of stratigraphic and related areas. A number of individuals, including Charles Deiss, Norman Lasca, Steve Oriel, John B. Patton created or compiled the collection. Most of the collection consists of general files (1948-1989), arranged chronologically, containing correspondence, minutes of meetings, and reports of the NACSN. The general files document annual meetings of the commission; the development and revisions of the stratigraphic code; activities of subcommittees; and the writing of the Commissions published notes and reports. The collection also contains extensive files of the Code Committee (1977-1983) which coordinated a complete revision of the code. The Code Committee files include scattered records of its subcommittees. The records of the Quaternary Advisory Group contain correspondence, minutes of meetings, and reports concerning terminology and stratigraphic principles and applications of Quaternary stratigraphic concepts. Finding aid available in the Archives.

Schlitz Audobon Center (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Records, 1942-1988.
Milwaukee Manuscript Collection 119 and Milwaukee Micro Collection 59
Records, mainly 1971-1972, of a nature education center owned by the National Audubon Society in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and of the local citizens group, Citizens for the Nine Mile Farm Nature Center, which worked to establish the center in 1972. Included is extensive correspondence (some also available on microfilm) between members of the citizens group, the National Audubon Society, and members of the Uihlein family, which owned the property, and their lawyers; legal documents; notes; minutes; newspaper clippings and scrapbooks (only available on microfilm); planning documents; and photographs. More recent material consists of brochures, schedules, and advertising; an incomplete run of the Center's newsletter; and correspondence of Winifred Woodmansee and her files on the Education Committee of the Friends of the Schlitz Audubon Center. Finding aid available in the Archives.

University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Dept. of Geography. Office of the Chairman.
Records, 1923-1988.
UWM Archival Collection 31
Records, mostly dating from the 1960s and 1970s, containing correspondence, and faculty and departmental meeting minutes concerning staffing, equipment and space needs, and curriculum development. The collection also contains minutes of the Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Geography, which studied the courses offered in Urban Geography and the department's possible cooperation with other UWM departments in their urban projects. Reports and correspondence in the graduate program files document the department's attempts to establish a masters program and a doctoral program at UWM. The collection contains some reports about the federally funded NDEA Institute for Advanced Study in Geography, which introduced field geography to teachers of geography in grades 4-12. The Institute was held on UWM's campus and directed by UWM faculty and staff. The only item predating 1955 is Louise W. Mears' 1923 pamphlet, "Around Milwaukee" : Land and Lake as a Laboratory, written while she was a geography teacher at the State Normal School in Milwaukee. Finding aid available in the Archives.