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

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Title	G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress, 1972-2000
Inclusive Dates	1972-2000
Call No.	G3301.F1 coll .L4
Creator	Lewis, G. Malcolm
Extent	72 boxes
Extent	716 folders
Extent	Approximately 6000 items
Language	Collection material primarily in English. Some materials in French, German, and Danish.
Location	Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/eadgmd.gm024002
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2024593504
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.