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Maps. Cartographic materials.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen.

Found in 680 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, diaries, articles and other papers of or collected by William Laird McKinlay concerning the Canadian National Arctic Expedition and the expedition of the 'Karluk' to Wrangel Island, Russia.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.12696/1-67
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the Canadian National Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918, and the part played in it by William McKinlay and the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. McKinlay's account of his experiences, especially those of being shipwrecked and marooned on Wrangel Island, off the coast of Siberia, were published by him in 'Karluk: the great untold story of Arctic expedition'.

Dates: Circa 1903-1982, undated.

Correspondence of Hew Morrison, with papers concerning his edition of ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ by Rob Donn., 1882-1903, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.14955
Scope and Contents Material connected with Hew Morrison’s edition of Rob Donn’s ‘Songs and poems in the Gaelic language’ (folios 1-12), and general correspondence (folios 13-21), of which only Alexander MacKay’s letter concerns the poems.The contents are as follows.(i) Photographs and a map (folio 1);(ii) Farther copies of some of the press cuttings in MS.14954 (folio 4);(iii) The surname controversy: notes and a survey (folio 6);(iv) Letter to Hew...
Dates: 1882-1903, undated.

Diary of Aylmer Haldane., 1875-1946.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.20247-20252
Scope and Contents

This is not the original diary (which Aylmer Haldane subsequently destroyed), but a copy which he personally typed and supplemented by small number of photographs, sketches, maps and other papers, and subsequently had bound into volumes.

There is no diary for 1876-1877, 1881-September 1897.

Dates: 1875-1946.