Walter W. Ristow
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American curator
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter William Ristow was the head librarian of the map library at the New York Public Library and later the Library of Congress. Ristow graduated with a degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin in 1931. He went on to earn a master's degree in geography from Oberlin College and a doctorate from Clark University. Ristow joined the Library of Congress in 1946 and became chief of its map department in 1967. He retired in 1978.
Walter W. Ristow's Published Works
Published Works
- National Geographic Atlas of the World (1964) (56)
- American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century (1987) (25)
- The Emergence of Maps in Libraries (1980) (10)
- Three-dimensional maps : an annotated list of references relating to the construction and use of terrain models (1951) (6)
- A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789 (1962) (6)
- Guide to the history of cartography;: An annotated list of references on the history of maps and mapmaking (1973) (5)
- Maps for an emerging nation : commercial cartography in nineteenth-century America : an exhibition at the Library of Congress (1977) (5)
- Nautical charts on vellum in the Library of Congress (1977) (4)
- The Geography of Egypt (1933) (3)
- Aviation cartography : a historico-bibliographic study of aeronautical charts (1956) (3)
- Machine-Readable Map Cataloging in The Library of Congress. (1971) (3)
- World directory of map collections (1986) (3)
- Air Age Geography: A Critical Appraisal and Bibliography (1944) (3)
- The American atlas (1976) (3)
- A la Carte: Selected Papers on Maps and Atlases (2005) (2)
- State Maps of the Southeast to 1833 (2013) (2)
- The Industrial Geography of Seneca Falls, New York (1936) (2)
- NEW MAPS FROM OLD/ TRENDS IN CARTOGRAPHIC FACSIMILE PUBLISHING (1968) (1)
- The Library of Congress computerized map cataloging project (1970) (1)
- CARTOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (1950) (1)
- The Anastatic Process Reproduction (1972) (1)
- Nineteenth-Century Cadastral Maps in Ohio (1965) (1)
- Acta Cartographica: A Series of Monographs and Studies on the History of Cartography (1968) (0)
- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM FIFTY‐NINTH ANNUAL MEETING (1963) (0)
- Preview of the Seventeenth Congress of IGU (1952) (0)
- Simeon De Witt / Pioneer American Cartographer (1968) (0)
- Communications From Readers (1970) (0)
- Facsimiles of rare historical maps available for sale (1960) (0)
- Geographical Information Please (1939) (0)
- Cartographic Information Services of the Library of Congress (1974) (0)
- The map librarian in the modern world (1979) (0)
- Marketing Maps of the United States--An Annotated List (1952) (0)
- Spieghel der Zeevaerdt@@@The History of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer and His 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt' [Introduction to the Facsimile Edition] (1966) (0)
- Association Affairs (1951) (0)
- Geography and map libraries subsection International Federation of library associations (1970) (0)
- The Rise and Decline of the Indigo Industry of South Carolina (2014) (0)
- Marketing maps of the United States : an annotated bibliography (1952) (0)
- The Southeast in Early Maps, with an Annotated Check List of Printed and Manuscript Regional and Local Maps of Southeastern North America during the Colonial Period. (1958) (0)
- MAPS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION / A PRELIMINARY SURVEY (1973) (0)
- THE AAG, THE IGU, and the SEVENTEENTH INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS (1952) (0)
- Maps: How to Make Them and Read Them. A Bibliography of General and Specialized Works on Cartography (1943) (0)
- WALTER W. RISTOW (1979) (0)
- REPORT OF THE SECRETARY (1950) (0)
- Rand McNally Bible Atlas@@@Rand McNally Atlas of World History@@@Atlas of the Early Christian World (1959) (0)
- Index to Part One (1961) (0)
- The map librarian in the modern world : essays in honour of Walter W. Ristow (1979) (0)
- PART ONE. CHRISTOPHER COLLES EARLY AMERICAN ENGINEER AND CARTOGRAPHER (1961) (0)
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