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1. Charles Lee Burwell collection of materials related to World War II

   1 model in two sections, both 120 x 120 cm.; plan and miscellany, .5 linear feet. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Charles Lee Burwell Collection consists of one model, consisting of rubber on foam backing, prepared for "Operation Overlord," the Allied invasion of Utah Beach, Normandy, France; and an operational plan, maps, aerial photography, and photographs assembled by Burwell in preparation for "Operation Anvil," an amphibious landing of Allied troops on the southern coast of France in August 1944.

2. Wallace Atwood Jr. map collection

   262 map plates. 1 storage box . -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Wallace served in the Army as director of the topographic model section of the Army Map Service during World War II. The collection consists of photographs of terrain models showing locations within the European, African, and Asian theaters of operation.

3. G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress, 1972-2000

   72 boxes. 716 folders. Approximately 6000 items. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress is an archive of historical geography research compiled over nearly three decades. This collection consists of over 6000 items of research materials used to investigate the cartographic encounter between Indigenous nations of North America and explorers and colonists from Europe. In this archive are correspondences between G. Malcolm Lewis -- a professor in University of Sheffield's Department of Geography until 1990 -- and historians, librarians, and fellow academics; cartobibliographic summaries of extant North American indigenous maps from 1600-1980; cartobibliographic summaries of incorporations of indigenous information on European and American maps since 1500; primary and secondary sources used to locate and investigate Indigenous maps and mapping efforts; reproductions of maps in a variety of media, including photocopies mounted on card-stock, transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints. The archive’s contents were generated between the approximate years of 1972- 2000 in the course of Lewis' work as an academic and historian. There are no original maps in the collection, only reproductions.