ARCHIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS -

Part I

 

Go to Box 57 (in: "IV. MEMBERSHIP RECORDS")

 

V. COMMITTEE RECORDS

(Note: Continued, with some duplication in Part II, Series #3)

Box 58. Committees Records – General

  • Correspondence / Rosters / Questionnaire, 1945 - 1966

Box 59. American Geography. 1951-1955.

(Note: Began as the Committee on “Centennial Field Studies” in 1947; later “Centennial Studies,” for a volume to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the AGS; eventually responsible for American Geography: Inventory and Prospect. Includes outlines and drafts.)

Box 60. Committees, A

  • AAG – CAG, 1960-1961 / 1963
  • AAG – NCGE Joint Committee On Education (See also: Box 66 below)
  • Advancement of the Profession (President’s Committee On), 1959-1969
  • Aerial Photographs (Preservation of), 1962-1963
  • Air Force ROTC, 1951-1960
  • Applied Geography, 1965-1967
  • Archives and History, 1972-1974

Box 61. Committees Records, A-C

  • Asian Studies, 1948-1951
  • Awards for Undergraduate Majors, 1963-1965
  • Cartography, 1948-1967

Box 62. Committees, C (cont.)

  • Careers in Geography (and Predecessors)

Box 63. Committees, C (cont.)

  • Census Advisory, 1956-1968
  • Central Office (and Secretariat), 1949-1967
  • Chinese Geographical Literature, 1959 - 1967

Box 64. Committees, C (cont.)

  • Climatology, 1962-1966
  • Committee Structure, 1960
  • Constitution and Bylaws, 1964 - 1967
  • Corporate Membership, 1963 – 1965
  • Corporate Seminar, 1962 – 1964 (Closely connected to membership Committee Became Committee on Geographical Symposia, with some lingering references. See also: Box 76.)

Box 65. Committees, C (cont.)

  • Credentials, 1939 – 1966 (various)
  • Cultural Geography, 1961-1967
  • Current Political Geography, 1954

Box 66. Committees, E

  • Economic Geography, 1949
  • Education (Joint AAG-NCGT) / History, General Correspondence, 1953

(Note: Resulted in the High School Geography Project (HSGP), which follows; see also Part II, Boxes 127 – 128)

Box 67. Committees, E (HSGP)

  • Requests for Checks, 1961 – 1963
  • HSGP Steering Committee, 1963 – 1965 (Proposals, publications)

Box 68. Committees, E (HSGP)

  • HSGP Proposals, 1962 – 1973
  • HSGP Director’s Reports, 1962 – 1967 (various)

Box 69. Committees, E

  • Exchange of Publications / History – Correspondence – Documents, 1923 - 1961

Box 70. Committees, E

  • Exchange of Publications / Documents – Correspondence, 1962-1970

Box 71. Committees, E

  • Executive Committee, 1949 – 1963 (various years; date of meetings, not councils)

Box 72. Committees, E

  • Executive Committee, 1964 - 1966

Box 73. Executive Committee. New Executive Officer, 1961-1965

  • Establishment of the Office, 1961-1962
  • Candidate Correspondence, 1961-1962
  • Appointment of A. Hahn, 1962-1963
  • Selection Committee, 1964 (Questionnaire, nominations)
  • Activities Guide for Executive Officer, 196

Box 74. Committees – E-F.

  • Economic Geography, 1949
  • Exchange of Visitors (Russian), 1957-1961
  • Exchange of Visitors, 1963-1967
  • Fellowships, 1949-1962
  • Finance, 1949-1965
  • Federal Board of Surveys and Maps, 1938-1940
  • Field Studies, 1946
  • Foreign Aid and Policy Research, 1961-1962

Box 75. Committees, G.

  • Geographic Education, 1949-50
  • Geographic Information Systems, 1965-1967 (Formerly “Utilization of Stored Data Systems," 1963-1965, included also, “Key Words in the Field of Geography,” 1963-1965)
  • Geographic Symposia, 1963-1967 (Formerly Committee On Seminars for Corporate Members. Included.)
  • Geographical Exploration, 1947
  • Geography of the Americas, 1952-1967
  • Geography in the Humanities, 1963-1964
  • Graduate Record (and Entrance) Exams, 1947-1964 (Note: Also known as the ETS Committee)

Box 76. Geography and Business, 1955-1961

(Includes report: “Non-Traditional Jobs in Geography”)

Box77. Geography and Business, 1950-1957

(Includes questionnaire forms and responses)

Box 78. Geography and Business, 1956-1960

(Includes JIG Notices / Responses to Questionnaire by Employment Category)

Box 79. Geographers in Government, 1942-1966

(Note: Formerly Geographers in Government Service/ Includes Committee On Geographers in Military Service, and Committee on Geographers in Defense, with list of “Geographers in Government Offices,” 1942)

Box 80. Grants and Awards Committees, 1922-1965

(Note: To 1922, Joint AAG-AGS Research Grant Committee / 1922-1946, AAG-AGS Refund Committee / 1946, Committee on Awards / 1951 Research Grants Committee / Includes Fellowship Committee and Research Funds Committee)

Box 81. Committees: H

  • Handbook – Directory, 1949-1967
  • Historical Geography
    • AAG Committee On Historical Geography, 1953
    • NRC Committee On Historical Geography, n.d.
    • AAG Committee On History of the Association, 1963-1965

Box 82. Honors Committee, 1948-1966

Box 83. Committees: I

  • Interception of Publications, 1955-1956
  • International Geographical Union, XVII International Congress, U.S., 1952
    • Abstract of Papers
    • Status of Geography in (Member) Countries, (Publication No. 7, Washington, D.C., 1952
  • IGO Congress / Participation Awards, 1962-1964

Box 84. Committees, I-L, 1939-1966

  • International Fellowships, 1945-192 (Note: Formerly the Fulbright Act Committee)
  • Koeppen and Geiger/Completion of the Handbuch Der Klimatologie, 1949-1953
  • Latin American Geography, 1939-1966 (Note: Began as a committee of the American Council of Learned Societies)
  • Committee on Lectures, 1962-1968 (Note: Includes references to, and documents from the Visiting Geographical Scientist Program, the NSF proposal for which this committee helped develop.)
  • Liberal Education Committee, 1962-1964

Box 85. Committees, M

  • Meeting Programs, 1960
  • Membership, 1928-1966 (Note: Includes Bases of Membership, 1945)
  • Memorials, 1956-1964 (various)
  • Military Geography, 1957-1967

Box 86. Committees, N-O

  • Near East Studies, 1948-1951
  • Nominating, 1937-1966

Box 87. Committees, P

  • Pan American Center for Geographical Training, 1962
  • Peace Research, 1965-66
  • Placement / Correspondence - Documents, 1946-1976
    • Chicago Teachers, 1958-1960

Box 88. Committees, P (cont.)

  • Placement / "Jobs in Geography," 1958-1971

Box 89. Committees, P (cont.)

  • Point Four Program, 1949-1952
  • Political Geography, 1953-1956
  • Publications, 1939-1961

Box 90. Committees, P (cont.)

  • Publications, 1962-1970 (Note: Includes "American Geography," 1960-1963 " [mss.])
  • Publications Review, 1939-1961

Box 91. Committees, R

  • Regional Divisions, 1952-1966 (various). Includes committees on organization and boundaries.
  • Relations with Foreign Geographers, 1948-1957
  • Resolutions, 1929 / 1953-1965 (various)

Box 92. Committees, S

  • Small Departments of Geography in Colleges and Universities, 1949
  • Social Geography, 1951-1952 (to prepare a chapter in "...Inventory and Prospect.")
  • Soil and Water Conservation - National Inventory of, 1963
  • Southern Colleges (Note: Began as "Program to Strengthen Geography Among Negro College Students.")
  • Soviet Studies, 1951
  • "Status and Trends... 1958-1960," 1958-1964 (Note: Includes edited Ms. See also; Publication Committee, Box 90)

Box 93. Committees, T-V

  • Teller's Committees, 1912-1967 (various)
    • Note: "Petition of Jan. 6, 1948" important for relations between AAG and ASPG
  • Television, 1957 / 1963
  • Trends in Training and Placement, 1953-1958
  • UNESCO Relations, 1949-1953
    • Note: Includes miscellaneous State Department materials, e.g., "Draft Treaty of Peace with Japan."
  • Visuals (Joint AAG-NCGE), 1964-1965 (Concerns Encyclopædia Britannica Films. See also; Part II, Box 182)

 

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