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1. Muriel H. Parry map collection

   approximately 871 items. 871 folders. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest Clegg, Richard Edes Harrison, Hal Shelton, Daniel K. Wallingford, MacDonald Gill, Chase Ernest Dudley, among others. Parry created a map that is part of the collection.

2. Tasker Howard Bliss collection of World War I maps and related materials

   270-plus pieces, chiefly maps : some colored ; various sizes . -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The map collection was amassed by General Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930) during his World War I military service and then as a U.S. representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

3. Peter L. Stark World War II map collection

   3 items. 1 folder. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection consists of three items, which includes a guide to reading aerial photography, a book of photomaps of Central Luzon, and an AAF Cloth Chart of the East China Sea.

4. Joseph E. Schwartzberg collection of materials related to a Historical atlas of South Asia

   21 boxes, including one oversize; 17.5 linear feet. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Joseph E. Scwartzberg Collection of Materials Related to A Historical Atlas of Souith Asia contains the production files used in the compilation, production, and printing of the atlas. Included are correspondence, drafts of atlas texts and plates, illustrations, administrative files, and an atlas production file of photographs, proofs, and materials used in printing and correcting the atlas plates.

5. Herold J. Wiens collection, 1939-1971

   264 pieces. chiefly maps. charts, and views. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Consists of pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, facsimiles, and photographs of aerial views showing all or part of China during the period of World War II. The collection also consists of technical drawing equipment, notes, charts, atlases, some books, personal folders, letters, correspondence, and other miscellaneous items.

6. David L. Quaid World War II map collection

   21 items. 1 folder. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection consists of 21 photocopied maps that are annotated and depict operations of Merrill's Marauders during World War II. Maps labeled 1 to 7 concern the Marauder's 1944 campaign in Burma, in which the unit captured the Japanese airfield at Myitkyina.