Philip Lee Philips Society (Geography and Map Reading Room, Library of Congress)

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Philip Lee Phillips Society

The Philip Lee Phillips Society has been established to further develop, enhance and promote the collections of the Geography and Map Division by encouraging financial donations to supplement appropriated funds for the acquisition of rare maps; stimulating interest among map collectors, map producers, geographers, cartographers, and historians in order to make the vast resources of the nation's premier cartographic and geographic collections more widely available; facilitating gifts and bequests of significant geographic and cartographic materials in order to further develop its collections; and advancing the Geography and Map Division's publication, education, and exhibition programs.

The Society is named in honor of Philip Lee Phillips (1857-1924), the first Superintendent of Maps when the Hall of Maps and Charts which was established in 1897.

Steering Committee:

Wesley A. Brown, Colorado (Co-Chair)

Arthur Holzheimer, Illinois (Co-Chair)

Roger S. Baskes, Illinois

Allen Carroll, Washington, D.C.

Barbara Adele Fine, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Joseph H. Fitzgerald, Florida

Jenkins and Virginia Garrett, Texas

Robert A. Highbarger, Maryland

Glen McLaughlin, California

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Illinois

Gary W. North, Virginia

Dr. Seymour I. Schwartz, New York

George Tobolowsky, Texas

J. Thomas Touchton, Florida

Eric W. Wolf, Virginia

Academic Advisors:

Dr. Louis DeVorsey, University of Georgia, Emeritus

Alice Hudson, New York, New York Public Library

Dr. Alan K. Henrikson, Tufts University

Dr. Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University

Richard W. Stephenson

Dr. Norman J. W. Thrower, University of California-Los Angeles

Dr. David Woodward, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Cordell D.K. Yee, St. Johns College, Annapolis

Ex Officio:

Dr. John R. Hébert, (Chief, Geography and Map Division)

Dr. Walter W. Ristow, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1968-1978)

Dr. John A. Wolter, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1978-1991)

Ralph E. Ehrenberg, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1991-1998)

Executive Secretary:

Dr. Ronald E. Grim, Specialist in Cartographic History, Geography and Map Division

For more information regarding membership and the activities of the Society please contact:

Dr. Ronald E. Grim
Executive Secretary
202/707-8532
rgrim@loc.gov.