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1. Carter Godwin Woodson papers, 1736-1974

   18,000 items. 54 containers plus 19 oversize. 21.2 linear feet. 46 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Historian, author, and collector. Papers of prominent African Americans, research files, business records, writings, correspondence, and other material relating to Woodson's leadership of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and to scholarship and publishing in the field of African and African-American history.

2. W J McGee papers, 1880-1916

   7,000 items. 31 containers plus 1 oversize. 12.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Geologist, anthropologist, and hydrologist. Correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, articles, scientific papers, lectures, notes, geological notebooks, scrapbooks, bibliographical notes, and memorabilia relating chiefly to McGee's career as a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution. Includes correspondence when he was director of the anthropological and historical exhibit of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

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3. Liberia map collection, 1764-1970

   4 drawers. 104 folders. 121 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Liberia map collection consists of 121 maps depicting Liberia at the whole country, region, and city level, covering a variety of subjects and uses, primarily in French. These maps make up a small part of the Geography and Map Division's holdings of maps that were acquired before the advent of digital cataloging in the 1970s. The collection's strengths are in maps of administrative and tribal boundaries, locations of natural resources and animals, population density, mines, plantations, communication and transport lines, roads and fuel stations, water systems, and locations of churches in Liberia.