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| Title: | Platt, Robert S.. Papers |
|---|---|
| Dates: | 1898-1980 |
| Size: | 18.75 linear feet (38 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Contains correspondence, manuscripts, student notes, lectures, field notes, teaching materials, letters of recommendation, maps, biographical material, postcards, offprints, book reviews, photographs, slides, and a motion picture film. Includes notes taken while Platt was a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago, notes and research papers from the Department's field courses in the upper Great Lakes region, correspondence relating to professional organizations such as the Association of American Geographers and the Library of Congress where Platt was Chief of the Division of Maps. Also includes editorial correspondence of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1961-1963). |
Access to student letters of recommendation is Series XI is restricted until 2037. The remainder of the collection is open for research.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Platt, Robert S. Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Robert Swanton Platt (1891-1964) was born in Columbus, Ohio, studied at St. George's School and the Hotchkiss School, and graduated from Yale in 1914. After teaching for a year at Yale in China at Changsha, he returned to the United States to enter the Department of Geography of the University of Chicago in 1915. Despite the interruption of military service during World War I, he completed his Ph.D. and was appointed an instructor in the Department in 1920. For the next thirty-seven years, Platt remained at the University of Chicago as assistant professor (1921-1927), associate professor (1927-1939), professor (1939-1957), and chairman (1949-1957) of the Department of Geography.
The central concern of Platt's work as a geographer was the intensive field study of small geographical areas that could provide data to support broader theoretical generalizations on the interrelation of landforms and human occupancy. Beginning in 1920 and continuing for more than thirty years, Platt led graduate students in his field courses on annual summer trips to Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, the upper Great Lakes region, and along the U.S.-Canadian border from Manitoba to Quebec. Conclusions drawn from these studies were distilled for presentation at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and subsequently published as a regular series of articles in professional journals.
Platt followed a similar procedure in surveying Central and South American geography. On seven trips to the Caribbean and Latin America between 1922 and 1941 (each lasting from two to six months), Platt and his wife, Harriet, alternated lengthy traverses of continental regions with careful micro-studies of specific villages and farms. These studies, which eventually numbered nearly one hundred, formed the basis for Platt's monographic text, Latin America: Countrysides and United Regions (1942). In later years, Platt utilized the field methods developed in the 1920's and 1930's to examine a variety of other geographic settings: Tierra del Fuego (1948); the Dutch-German border (1952-1954); the Saarland (1958-1959); volcanic activity in Mexico, Hawaii, and Italy (1958-1960); and Pakistan (1961). In each of these projects, as in the edited collection of essays published as Field Study in American Geography (1958), Platt stressed the spatial complexity of human social and cultural patterns and warned against the conceptual dangers of environmental determinism.
While fieldwork formed the foundation of his reputation, Platt was equally well known for his interest in general geographical theory and the development of geography as a professional discipline. From 1923 to 1940, he was a regular participant in the spring field conference of American geographers first organized by Wellington Jones and Carl Sauer. He served the Association of American Geographers for many years as its treasurer (1929-1934), vice-president (1943), president (1945), and as editor of the Annals of the A.A.G. from 1961 to 1964. Outside the discipline, Platt advanced the interests of professional geography as vice-chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council (1937-1939); as adviser to the Geographer of the U.S. State Department (1943); and most notably as chief of the Division of Maps at the Library of Congress (1944-1945) during Federal wartime mobilization. Even after his retirement in 1957, Platt's interest in professionalism and methodology was reflected in his organization of the Pakistan Field Geographers while a Fulbright Scholar in 1962 and his course on Geographic Thought given as a visiting professor at Indiana University in 1963.
Platt's skill as a teacher and his generous encouragement of the work of others contributed to the high regard in which he was held by both students and colleagues. Together with Harriet, he opened his home at 10820 S. Drew to successive generations of foreign and American students in geography and other fields, many of who lived with the Platts for more than a year and came to style themselves "Plattaches." The Platt home was also the scene of frequent gatherings of Department of Geography faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and of meetings with geographers from other universities. Following Platt's death in 1964, several of these friends and colleagues joined in erecting a monument in his memory in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, on the site of his earliest contributions to field methodology and in tribute to the teacher and scholar who represented "in remarkable degree," as Richard Hartshorne has noted, "the development of American geography during his lifetime."
The Robert S. Platt papers contain student notes, professional correspondence, manuscripts, off-prints, lectures, field notes, teaching materials, postcards, photographs, and movie film; notes and research papers from his Department of Geography field courses in the upper Great Lakes region; and editorial correspondence of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 1961 to 1963.
Series I. BIOGRAPHICAL
This series contains a miscellaneous group of materials related to Platt's life, as well as a series of tributes offered by his students and colleagues. Of particular interest are folders devoted to Platt's retirement and the critical appraisals of his career by William Pattison, Richard Hartshorne, and Richard S. Thoman.
Series II. EARLY NOTES AND PAPERS
Except for items in the first folder, this series of student notes and papers represents Platt's work as a graduate student in the Department of Geography from 1915 to 1920. The lectures by Barrows, Tower, and Cowles preserved in Platt's notes are significant for the information they provide on the intellectual climate of the Department during its early years. That these teachers (and others including Rollin D. Salisbury and Albion Small) were having an important effect on Platt's thinking is apparent from a group of undated geographical notes, evidently written ca. 1916; in these notes, Platt compares definitions of geography offered in Departmental courses with those found in standard dictionaries, and counter-poses his own reflections on the nature of the discipline.
Series III. PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE
Platt's professional correspondence includes a number of important exchanges with such colleagues as Harlan H. Barrows, Richard Hartshorne, Wellington D. Jones, and Derwent Whittlesey. In the case of Hartshorne, Platt considered certain letters to be of such theoretical consequence that they were separated for use in teaching his course on Geographic Thought at Indiana University in 1963. The professional correspondence also contains letters related to Platt's work with the Association of American Geographers, the Library of Congress, the National Research Council, and the U.S. State Department and War Department.
Series IV. WRITINGS
The writings in this series have been divided into three sub-series: Books and Articles and Addresses and Lectures arranged alphabetically by title, followed by Book Reviews organized alphabetically by the last name of the author or editor. Individual folders in the Books and Articles section typically contain manuscripts and offprints, but they may also include outlines and correspondence or notes by Platt such as those found on the manuscript chapters of American Geography: Inventory and Prospect. Several autobiographical writings containing Platt's comments on his career and the development of American geography should also be noted: "Being a Geographer"; "My Unfinishing School" and "My Photogenic Finish;" "Around the World in 47 Years"; "Glimpses of the Decades"; and "A Half-Century of Geography and Geographers."
Series V. FIELD NOTES
Notes in this series record Platt's field observations throughout his career, from a trip to the Fox Valley as a graduate student to travels in Spain and Morocco in the year before his death. The notes have been organized into five general geographical categories (United States and Canada; Bermuda; Latin America and Caribbean; and Europe and North America), and within each category have been arranged chronologically by year. The notes on Bermuda collected in the spring and fall of 1919 served as the basis for his 1920 Ph.D. dissertation, "Resources and Economic Interests of the Bermudas."
Series VI. DEPARTMENTAL AND TEACHING MATERIALS
Apart from a small group of administrative materials, this series is devoted largely to notes and correspondence related to regular geography courses taught by Platt from 1920 to 1963. Included are records of his earliest teaching experiences at Changsha at Yale in China and in the U.S. Army during World War I, and a group of materials from his courses on Geographic Thought and Methodology given at the University of Chicago and Indiana University late in his life.
Letters of recommendation in this series are restricted until 2035.
Series VII. GREAT LAKES FIELD COURSES
Material in this series records the work of Platt and his students in the field from 1920 to 1951. Within the group of folders devoted to each year's trip, Platt's correspondence and notes on travel arrangements and field instructions are followed by printed maps indicating the general area being surveyed, manuscript reports and maps compiled by students in the field, and final research papers prepared by students for course credit.
Series VIII. ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS
This series contains the editorial files accumulated by Platt during his tenure as editor of the Annals of the A.A.G. (1961-1964). General editorial correspondence is followed by letters and referees' reports on individual published articles arranged by issue.
All records in this series are restricted until 2014 and may be consulted only upon application to the University Archivist.
Series IX. POSTCARDS
Platt was an avid collector of postcards with geographical views, particularly in the early years of his career. Besides serving as colorful souvenirs of his travels, postcards also met research needs: those depicting the landforms, flora, and industries of Bermuda, for example, proved useful in the writing of his dissertation.
Series X. PHOTOGRAPHS
Rooted in his early amateur interest in picture taking, Platt's commitment to photography as a research tool was a hallmark of his geographic field technique. Although many of the photographs in this series were intended to appear as illustrations in his published articles, others were taken to serve as permanent records of significant events in his life. Platt recorded student excursions with Rollin Salisbury; his earliest fieldwork at Ellison Bay; the first of the American geographers' spring field conferences; and numerous incidents during annual trips to the upper Great Lakes region. Platt's collection of photographs is also an important source of visual information on the Department of Geography and the varied events at his home in Morgan Park.
Series XI. RESTRICTED
This series contains student evaluative material restricted until 2037.
Further information on Robert S. Platt and the Department of Geography can be found in the Presidents' Papers; the papers of Rollin D. Salisbury and Harlan H. Barrows; the Archival General and Biographical Files; the Goode Base Map collection; the Department of Geography records; and the records of the Department of Geography 75th Anniversary Exhibit.
Series I: Biographical |
| Box 1 Folder 1 | Correspondence with parents, 1918-1924 |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Amateur photographic contest and published photographs, 1924, 1929 |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Curriculum vitae and miscellaneous biographical information, 1933-1963 |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Harriet Shanks Platt, lecture prospectus, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Foreign geographic society memberships, 1948-1960 |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | "Plattweg" reunion, 1957 |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Book of tributes from colleagues and former students, 1957 |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Helen Culver Gold Medal presentation, Geographic Society of Chicago, 1959 |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Anonymous biographical introduction of RSP, ca. 1959 |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | "Robert S. Platt: An Appreciation," eulogy by Marvin W. Mikesell, Rockefeller Chapel, March 17, 1964 |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Letters of condolence, 1964 |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Descriptions of 10820 S. Drew St. Property (Platt residence), 1965; proposal for housing Amitree organization in residence, 1974; proposal for Platt monument on Niagara escarpment, Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, undated |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | William Pattison, "An Exercise in the Sociology of Knowledge," 1950 |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Richard Hartshorne, "Robert S. Platt, 1891-1964," 1964 |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Richard S. Thoman, "Robert Swanton Platt, 1891-1964," 1980 |
Series II: Student Notes and Papers |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Miscellaneous notes, Yale University, 1911-1912 |
| Box 1 Folder 17 | University of Chicago transcript, 1915-1920 |
| Box 1 Folder 18 | Harlan H. Barrows, The Influence of Geography on American History (Geography 10), Autumn 1915 |
| Box 1 Folder 19 | Harlan H. Barrows, The Influence of Geography on American History (Geography 10), Autumn 1915 |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Harlan H. Barrows, The Influence of Geography on American History (Geography 10), Autumn 1915 |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Harlan H. Barrows, Conservation of Natural Resources (Geography 12), Winter 1916 |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Harlan H. Barrows, Conservation of Natural Resources (Geography 12), Winter 1916 |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Harlan H. Barrows, Geographical Influences on the History of the Western United States (Geography 36), Autumn 1916 |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Harlan H. Barrows, Geography of Illinois (Geography 38), Winter 1917 |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Walter S. Tower, Geography of South America (Geography 21), Winter 1917 |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Walter S. Tower, Geography of South America (Geography 21), Winter 1917 |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Walter S. Tower, Geography of South America (Geography 21), Winter 1917 |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | Henry C. Cowles, Physiographic Ecology (Botany 34), Spring 1919 |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | Notes on the nature of geography, undated |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | Miscellaneous student notes, undated |
Series III: Professional Correspondence |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | A, general |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | American Geographical Society (includes John K. Wright) |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | Association of American Geographers, general |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Association of American Geographers, general, annual meetings |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | Association of American Geographers, general, Constitutional Committee |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Association of American Geographers, general, Treasurer |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | B, general |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Barrows, Harlan H. |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Bowman, Isaiah |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | Brown, Ralph H. |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | C, general |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | Colby, Charles C. |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | Collier, John |
| Box 3 Folder 17 | D, general |
| Box 4 Folder 1 | Davis, Charles M. |
| Box 4 Folder 2 | E, general |
| Box 4 Folder 3 | F, general |
| Box 4 Folder 4 | Finch, Vernor C. |
| Box 4 Folder 5 | G, general |
| Box 4 Folder 6 | Gamma Alpha Fraternity |
| Box 4 Folder 7 | Ginsburg, Norton S. |
| Box 4 Folder 8 | Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| Box 4 Folder 9 | H, general |
| Box 4 Folder 10 | Hanson, Earl P. |
| Box 4 Folder 11 | Haring, C.H. |
| Box 4 Folder 12 | Hartshorne, Richard |
| Box 4 Folder 13 | Hartshorne, Richard, correspondence used in teaching Geography 520, Indiana University, February 1963 |
| Box 4 Folder 14 | Huang, Kuo Chang |
| Box 4 Folder 15 | I, general |
| Box 4 Folder 16 | J, general |
| Box 4 Folder 17 | James, Preston E. |
| Box 4 Folder 18 | Jefferson, Mark |
| Box 4 Folder 19 | Joerg, W.L.G. |
| Box 4 Folder 20 | Jones, Chester Lloyd |
| Box 4 Folder 21 | Jones, Clarence F. |
| Box 4 Folder 22 | Jones, Stephen |
| Box 5 Folder 1 | Jones, Wellington D. |
| Box 5 Folder 2 | K, general |
| Box 5 Folder 3 | Kollmorgen, Walter M. |
| Box 5 Folder 4 | L, general |
| Box 5 Folder 5 | Library of Congress, general |
| Box 5 Folder 6 | Library of Congress, Divison of Maps |
| Box 5 Folder 7 | Longmans, Green and Co. |
| Box 5 Folder 8 | Longwell, Chester R. |
| Box 5 Folder 9 | M, general |
| Box 5 Folder 10 | Martin, Lawrence |
| Box 5 Folder 11 | N, general |
| Box 5 Folder 12 | National Research Council, Division of Geology and Geography |
| Box 5 Folder 13 | National Science Foundation |
| Box 5 Folder 14 | O-P, general |
| Box 5 Folder 15 | Philbrick, Allen K. |
| Box 5 Folder 16 | Q-R, general |
| Box 5 Folder 17 | Redfield, Robert |
| Box 6 Folder 1 | S, general |
| Box 6 Folder 2 | Schmieder, Oscar |
| Box 6 Folder 3 | Smith, Guy-Harold |
| Box 6 Folder 4 | Smith, J. Russell |
| Box 6 Folder 5 | Smith, Joe Patterson |
| Box 6 Folder 6 | Social Science Research Committee |
| Box 6 Folder 7 | T, general |
| Box 6 Folder 8 | Torkelson, M.W. |
| Box 6 Folder 9 | U, general |
| Box 6 Folder 10 | U.S. State Department, general (includes Cordell Hull) |
| Box 6 Folder 11 | U.S. State Department, general (includes Cordell Hull), Office of the Geographer |
| Box 6 Folder 12 | U.S. War Department, Military Intelligence (G-2) |
| Box 6 Folder 13 | V, general |
| Box 6 Folder 14 | Visher, Stephen S. |
| Box 6 Folder 15 | W, general |
| Box 6 Folder 16 | Whitaker, J. Russell |
| Box 6 Folder 17 | Whittlesey, Derwent |
| Box 6 Folder 18 | Y-Z, general |
Series IV: Writings |
| Box 7 Folder 1 | Bibliographies of published works by RSP |
| Box 7 Folder 2 | "An Air Traverse of Central America," 1934 |
| Box 7 Folder 3 | "America, War, and Waves of the Future: An Analysis of National Agreement and Disagreement," 1941 |
| Box 7 Folder 4 | American Geography: and Prospect, James, Jones, and Wright, eds. (1954) |
| Box 7 Folder 5 | "Anomalous Panama," 1929 |
| Box 7 Folder 6 | "Being a Geographer," 1947 |
| Box 7 Folder 7 | "Brazilian Capitals and Frontiers," Parts I and II, 1954-1955 |
| Box 7 Folder 8 | "Can the Americas Be United for Defense?" 1940 |
| Box 7 Folder 9 | "Central American Railways and the Pan-American Route," 1926 |
| Box 7 Folder 10 | "A Classification of Manufactures, Exemplified by Porto Rican Industries," 1927 |
| Box 7 Folder 11 | "Coffee Plantations of Brazil: A Comparison of Occupance Patterns in Established and Frontier Areas," 1935 |
| Box 7 Folder 12 | "Critical Spots in Latin America," undated |
| Box 7 Folder 13 | "A Cross Section of Central America in Costa Rica," 1923 |
| Box 7 Folder 14 | "Cuba, Haiti and Santo Domingo," 1923 |
| Box 7 Folder 15 | "A Detail of Regional Geography: Ellison Bay Community as an Industrial Organism," 1928 |
| Box 7 Folder 16 | "Determinism in Geography," 1948 |
| Box 7 Folder 17 | "Development and Problems of Land Transport in Latin America," 1940 |
| Box 7 Folder 18 | "Do We Lack Proper Field Methods and Mapping Techniques?" 1955 |
| Box 7 Folder 19 | "Environmentalism versus Geography," 1948 |
| Box 7 Folder 20 | "Exploration and Geography," 1925 |
| Box 7 Folder 21 | "Field Approach to Regions," 1935 |
| Box 7 Folder 22 | Field Study in American Geography: The Development of Theory and Method Exemplified by Selections (1959) |
| Box 8 Folder 1 | "Field Study of Republic, Michigan: A Community in the Marquette Iron Range," 1928 |
| Box 8 Folder 2 | A Geographical Study of the Dutch-German Border (1958), manuscript |
| Box 8 Folder 3 | A Geographical Study of the Dutch-German Border (1958), manuscript, maps |
| Box 8 Folder 4 | A Geographical Study of the Dutch-German Border (1958), manuscript, published copy |
| Box 8 Folder 5 | "Geography of a Sugar District: Mariel, Cuba," 1929 |
| Box 8 Folder 6 | Handbook of Latin American Studies (1938, 1939) |
| Box 8 Folder 7 | "Harlan H. Barrows," 1961 |
| Box 8 Folder 8 | "The Influence of Volcanoes on People: A Study of Human Response to Natural Environment," 1959 |
| Box 8 Folder 9 | Writings
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| Box 8 Folder 10 | Latin America: Country sides and United Regions (1942), outline and correspondence |
| Box 8 Folder 11 | Latin America: Country sides and United Regions (1942), outline and correspondence, publicity and reviews |
| Box 8 Folder 12 | "Latin America in World Affairs," 1941 |
| Box 8 Folder 13 | "MRA: Help or Hindrance in Our World?" 1955 |
| Box 8 Folder 14 | "Magdalena Atlipac: A Study in Terrene Occupancy in Mexico," 1933 |
| Box 8 Folder 15 | "Memorandum on 'Large Scale Regional Development' Address by E.S. Draper," undated |
| Box 8 Folder 16 | "Mining Patterns of Occupance in Five South American Districts," 1933 |
| Box 9 Folder 1 | "My Unfinishing School: An Unsuccess Story," 1959, and "My Photogenic Finish: A Success Story," 1960 |
| Box 9 Folder 2 | Writings
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| Box 9 Folder 3 | Palestine, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 4 | "Pattern of Land Occupancy in the Mexican Laguna District," 1930 |
| Box 9 Folder 5 | "Pattern of Occupance in the Maracaibo Basin," 1934 |
| Box 9 Folder 6 | "Peripheral Items in the Argentine Pattern of Terrene Occupancy," 1931 |
| Box 9 Folder 7 | "Pirovano: Items in the Argentine Pattern of Terrene Occupance," 1931 |
| Box 9 Folder 8 | Writings
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| Box 9 Folder 9 | "Problems of Our Time," 1945 |
| Box 9 Folder 10 | "Quotations on Function, Process, Organization, Dynamic Spatial Relations, Spatial-Temporal Pattern, System of Operations, as Distinct from Static Uniform Homogeneous Areal Differentiation, in Publications of 1928-1957, R.S. Platt," undated |
| Box 9 Folder 11 | "Reconnaissance in British Guiana, with Comments on Microgeography," 1939 |
| Box 9 Folder 12 | "Reconnaissance in Dynamic Regional Geography: Tierra del Fuego," 1949 |
| Box 9 Folder 13 | Regional planning, undated |
| Box 9 Folder 14 | "Regionalism in World Order," 1943 |
| Box 9 Folder 15 | "Resources and Economic Interests of the Bermudas" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1920), correspondence |
| Box 9 Folder 16 | "Resources and Economic Interests of the Bermudas" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1920), manuscript and abstract |
| Box 9 Folder 17 | "A Review of Regional Geography," 1957 |
| Box 9 Folder 18 | "The Rise of Cultural Geography in America," 1952 |
| Box 9 Folder 19 | "The Saarland, an International Borderland: Social Geography from Field Study of Nine Border Villages," 1961, correspondence, grant proposal, maps |
| Box 9 Folder 20 | "The Saarland, an International Borderland: Social Geography from Field Study of Nine Border Villages," 1961, manuscript and offprint |
| Box 9 Folder 21 | "Significance of the Location of Bermuda," 1921 |
| Box 10 Folder 1 | "Six Farms in the Central Andes," 1932 |
| Box 10 Folder 2 | "South Range, Keweenaw Copper Country: A Mining Pattern of Land Occupancy," 1932 |
| Box 10 Folder 3 | "Statement by Two Geographers," 1959 |
| Box 10 Folder 4 | Suggestions Concerning Desirable Lines of Research in the Fields of Geology and Geography, Bastin, Dunbar, and Platt, eds. (1936) |
| Box 10 Folder 5 | "Summary Memorandum on the Bad River Indian Reservation, Based on Reports of Field Study," 1940 |
| Box 10 Folder 6 | "Tentative Interpretation of Middle Tennessee," 1927 "Transportation in Inter-Regional Relations," 1949 |
| Box 10 Folder 7 | "An Urban Field Study: Marquette, Michigan," 1931 |
| Box 10 Folder 8 | "Wellington D. Jones," 1957 |
| Box 10 Folder 9 | "What A Geographer Thinks About," 1961 "Where Do the Cultures Meet?" 1940 |
| Box 10 Folder 10 | "Working on the Professor's Terms," 1952 Addresses and Lectures |
| Box 10 Folder 11 | "Around the World in 47 Years," 1962 |
| Box 10 Folder 12 | Writings
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| Box 10 Folder 13 | Writings
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| Box 10 Folder 14 | "Can We Avoid Determinism?" 1947 |
| Box 10 Folder 15 | "Chasing a European Boundary," 1954 |
| Box 10 Folder 16 | Clark Lectures, 1950 |
| Box 10 Folder 17 | Writings
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| Box 10 Folder 18 | "Contributions of Geographers in Latin American Studies," 1961 |
| Box 10 Folder 19 | "Critical Spots in Latin America," 1939 |
| Box 10 Folder 20 | "Destruction and Resettlement around Volcanoes," 1961 |
| Box 10 Folder 21 | Writings
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| Box 10 Folder 22 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 1 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 2 | "Glimpses of the Decades," 1954 |
| Box 11 Folder 3 | "Goings-On in Field Work," 1958 |
| Box 11 Folder 4 | "A Half Century of Geography and Geographers," 1963 |
| Box 11 Folder 5 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 6 | "Introductory Field Study," 1951 |
| Box 11 Folder 7 | "A Latin Americanist Looks at Africa," 1961 |
| Box 11 Folder 8 | Lectures in Brazil, 1947 |
| Box 11 Folder 9 | "Life in a Chinese City," 1921 |
| Box 11 Folder 10 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 11 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 12 | "Palestine," [1925] |
| Box 11 Folder 13 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 14 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 15 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 16 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 17 | Writings
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| Box 11 Folder 18 | Authors A-M |
| Box 11 Folder 19 | Authors N-Z |
Series V: Field Notes |
Subseries 1: United States and Canada |
| Box 12 Folder 1 | 1916-1917 (Fox Valley, Illinois) |
| Box 12 Folder 2 | 1919 (Chicago to Washington, D.C.; New York; Massachusetts; Cassville, Illinois) |
| Box 12 Folder 3 | 1920 (Ohio; Kentucky; Indiana; Maine; Washington, D.C. to Boston; Wisconsin; Illinois; Arkansas) |
| Box 12 Folder 4 | 1921 (St. Lawrence Valley; French Lick, Indiana; Wisconsin; Chicago to Boston) |
| Box 12 Folder 5 | 1922 (Pittsburgh to Key West; Texas; Missouri; Arkansas; New York to Chicago) |
| Box 12 Folder 6 | Field notes, 1923-1925
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| Box 12 Folder 7 | 1926 (Tennessee; Alabama; Florida; Wisconsin) |
| Box 12 Folder 8 | 1928 (Missouri, New Mexico; Michigan; Georgia; Florida) |
| Box 12 Folder 9 | 1929 (Michigan) |
| Box 12 Folder 10 | 1951 (Chicago; Wisconsin) |
| Box 12 Folder 11 | 1952 (Wisconsin) |
| Box 12 Folder 12 | 1956-1958 (Michigan) |
Subseries 2: Bermuda |
| Box 12 Folder 13 | March 1919 |
| Box 13 Folder 1 | March 1919 |
| Box 13 Folder 2 | September 1919 |
| Box 13 Folder 3 | September-October 1919 |
| Box 13 Folder 4 | October 1919 |
| Box 13 Folder 5 | Map of Soncy Estate, Pembroke |
Subseries 3: Latin America and Caribbean |
| Box 13 Folder 6 | Latin American Project; proposals, maps, and itineraries |
| Box 13 Folder 7 | 1922 (Venezuela) |
| Box 13 Folder 8 | 1922 (Cuba; Puerto Rico; Panama; Dominican Republic) |
| Box 14 Folder 1 | 1922 (Panama; Costa Rica; Guatemala) |
| Box 14 Folder 2 | 1922 (Honduras; Guatemala; Mexico) |
| Box 14 Folder 3 | 1923 (St. Thomas; Trinidad; Venezuela) |
| Box 14 Folder 4 | 1928 (Cuba; Mexico) |
| Box 14 Folder 5 | 1930 (Peru) |
| Box 14 Folder 6 | 1930 (Colombia; Chile; Argentina; Paraguay; Brazil) |
| Box 14 Folder 7 | 1933 (Colombia; Venezuela) |
| Box 14 Folder 8 | 1935 (Peru) |
| Box 14 Folder 9 | 1935 (Brazil) |
| Box 15 Folder 1 | 1936 (Mexico) |
| Box 15 Folder 2 | 1940 (Venezuela) |
| Box 15 Folder 3 | 1947 (Brazil; Paraguay) |
| Box 15 Folder 4 | 1948 (Peru; Argentina; Brazil) |
| Box 15 Folder 5 | 1948 (Peru; Argentina; Brazil) |
| Box 15 Folder 6 | 1952 (Bahamas) |
| Box 15 Folder 7 | 1958 (Mexico) |
| Box 15 Folder 8 | Miscellaneous notes, undated |
Subseries 4: Europe and North Africa |
| Box 15 Folder 9 | 1959 (Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii) |
| Box 15 Folder 10 | 1963 (Spain; Morocco) |
Series VI: Departmental and Teaching Materials |
Subseries 1: University of Chicago Department of Geography |
| Box 15 Folder 11 | Administrative correspondence, 1949-1951 (includes Ernest Colwell, Robert M. Hutchins, and Walter A. Bartky) |
| Box 15 Folder 12 | Intra-faculty correspondence, 1955 and undated |
| Box 15 Folder 13 | Departmental course offerings, 1946-1949 |
| Box 16 Folder 1 | Conference and symposia, 1923, 1955-1957 |
| Box 16 Folder 2 | Chicago-Frankfurt Interuniversity Project, 1952 |
| Box 16 Folder 3 | Research project proposals, 1936, 1950-1952, 1958 |
Subseries 2: University of Chicago Teaching Materials |
| Box 16 Folder 4 | Advice on teaching by Rollin D. Salisbury, 1919 |
| Box 16 Folder 5 | Instructor's reports, 1920-1957 |
| Box 16 Folder 6 | Required texts, 1924-1957 |
| Box 16 Folder 7 | Geography of North America (Geography 5), 1920-1923 |
| Box 16 Folder 8 | The Elements of Geography (Geography 1), 1923 |
| Box 16 Folder 9 | Advanced Field Course (Geography 466), 1928, itinerary and anonymous journal of Mexican traverse |
| Box 16 Folder 10 | Introductory Geography (Geography 101), 1931 |
| Box 16 Folder 11 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Central America, 1943 |
| Box 16 Folder 12 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Economic Geography, 1943 |
| Box 16 Folder 13 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Economic Geography, 1943 |
| Box 16 Folder 14 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Political Geography, 1943 |
| Box 16 Folder 15 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Political Geography, 1943 |
| Box 17 Folder 1 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Physical Science, 1943 |
| Box 17 Folder 2 | Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), Sequence C, Premeteorology, 1943 |
| Box 17 Folder 3 | Latin America (Geography 247), 1950 and undated |
| Box 17 Folder 4 | Geographic Thought (Geography 391), 1955-1957 |
| Box 17 Folder 5 | Geographic Thought (Geography 391), notes collected in 1963 |
| Box 17 Folder 6 | Geographic Thought (Geography 391), Richard Hartshorne, The Nature of Geography (1939), copy annotated by RSP |
| Box 17 Folder 7 | Geographic Thought (Geography 391), Richard Hartshorne, Perspective on the Nature of Geography (1959), copy annotated by RSP |
| Box 17 Folder 8 | Methodology (Geography 516), 1957 |
| Box 18 Folder 1 | Cultural geography, notes and research materials |
| Box 18 Folder 2 | Miscellaneous course notes and syllabi Other Teaching Materials |
| Box 18 Folder 3 | Yale in China, notes and class assignments, 1915 |
| Box 18 Folder 4 | Yale in China, notes on climate |
| Box 18 Folder 5 | Yale in China, correspondence, 1917-1922 |
| Box 18 Folder 6 | Yale in China, "How It Strikes the Newcomer," by RSP; brochure, map of Changsha |
| Box 18 Folder 7 | 82nd Infantry, officers' training camp, 1918 |
| Box 18 Folder 8 | 82nd Infantry, "The Western Front," by RSP, 1918 |
| Box 18 Folder 9 | 82nd Infantry, lecture notes |
| Box 18 Folder 10 | 82nd Infantry, student maps |
| Box 18 Folder 11 | 82nd Infantry, correspondence, 1918-1923 |
| Box 19 Folder 1 | Navy Department, Bureau of Aeronautics, lectures, 1944 |
| Box 19 Folder 2 | Michigan State University, Visiting Professor, 1957 |
| Box 19 Folder 3 | Ohio State University, Mershon Visiting Professor, 1961 |
| Box 19 Folder 4 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, Fulbright Scholar, official correspondence, 1961-1962 |
| Box 19 Folder 5 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, travel arrangements |
| Box 19 Folder 6 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, correspondence with friends |
| Box 19 Folder 7 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, Pakistan Field Geographers |
| Box 19 Folder 8 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, University of Karachi |
| Box 19 Folder 9 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, University of Dacca |
| Box 19 Folder 10 | United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan, notes and maps |
| Box 19 Folder 11 | Indiana University, Visiting Professor, 1963 Miscellaneous Student Papers |
| Box 19 Folder 12 | Ada V. Espenshade, "Three American Sub-Capitals," 1940 |
| Box 19 Folder 13 | Ann Larimore, "The Cultural Geography of St. Charles, Mo.: Housetypes," A.M. thesis, 1955 |
| Box 19 Folder 14 | Richard S. Thoman, "Chicago, a City of Dynamicity," undated Richard S. Thoman, "The Bourmet-Boursma Farm Units: A Cursory Appraisal," undated |
| Box 19 Folder 15 | Don Edward Totten, "Patterns of Group Occupance in the Manitoba-North Dakota Border Area," A.M. thesis, 1950 |
Series VII: Great Lakes Field Courses |
| Box 20 Folder 1 | List of students participating in Field Geography (Geography 7), 1920-1923; Field Course in the Green Bay Region (Geography 7), 1924-1927; and Field Course in the Northern Lakes Region (Geography 366), 1929-1951 |
| Box 20 Folder 2 | 1920 (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), correspondence and notes |
| Box 20 Folder 3 | 1921 (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), notices |
| Box 20 Folder 4 | 1922 (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), correspondence, notes, map |
| Box 20 Folder 5 | 1923 (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), correspondence |
| Box 20 Folder 6 | 1924 (Ellison Bay, Wisconsin), correspondence and field notes |
| Box 20 Folder 7 | 1926 (Crystal Falls, Michigan), notes and maps |
| Box 20 Folder 8 | 1927 (Republic, Michigan), correspondence, notes, maps |
| Box 20 Folder 9 | 1929 (Marquette, Michigan), correspondence and clipping |
| Box 20 Folder 10 | 1930 (Marquette, Michigan), correspondence |
| Box 20 Folder 11 | 1931 (Houghton, Michigan), correspondence and clipping |
| Box 20 Folder 12 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), correspondence and notes |
| Box 20 Folder 13 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student field reports |
| Box 20 Folder 14 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student field reports |
| Box 20 Folder 15 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student field reports |
| Box 20 Folder 16 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), printed maps and surveys |
| Box 20 Folder 17 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student maps |
| Box 21 Folder 1 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student research papers |
| Box 21 Folder 2 | 1932 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student research papers |
| Box 21 Folder 3 | 1933 (Phelps, Wisconsin), notes and student research paper |
| Box 21 Folder 4 | 1934 (St. Ignace, Michigan), notes and student research papers |
| Box 21 Folder 5 | 1935 (Ontonagon, Michigan), prospectus |
| Box 21 Folder 6 | 1938 (Newberry, Michigan), notes |
| Box 21 Folder 7 | 1939 (Iron Mt., Michigan), notes |
| Box 21 Folder 8 | 1940 (Ashland, Wisconsin), correspondence, notes, and clipping |
| Box 21 Folder 9 | 1940 (Ashland, Wisconsin), student research paper |
| Box 21 Folder 10 | 1942 (Showano, Minnesota), notes |
| Box 21 Folder 11 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), correspondence, notes, clippings |
| Box 21 Folder 12 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student field reports |
| Box 21 Folder 13 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student field reports |
| Box 21 Folder 14 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student maps |
| Box 21 Folder 15 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student maps |
| Box 21 Folder 16 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student research papers |
| Box 22 Folder 1 | 1946 (International Falls, Minnesota), student research papers |
| Box 22 Folder 2 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), correspondence and notes |
| Box 22 Folder 3 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student field reports |
| Box 22 Folder 4 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student field reports |
| Box 22 Folder 5 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student field reports |
| Box 22 Folder 6 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student field reports |
| Box 22 Folder 7 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student maps |
| Box 22 Folder 8 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student research papers |
| Box 22 Folder 9 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student research papers |
| Box 23 Folder 1 | 1947 (St. Regis, Quebec), student research papers |
| Box 23 Folder 2 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), correspondence and notes |
| Box 23 Folder 3 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), student field reports |
| Box 23 Folder 4 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), student field reports |
| Box 23 Folder 5 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), student field reports |
| Box 23 Folder 6 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), student maps |
| Box 23 Folder 7 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), field reports student maps |
| Box 23 Folder 8 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), field reports student maps |
| Box 23 Folder 9 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), field reports student maps |
| Box 24 Folder 1 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), field reports student maps |
| Box 24 Folder 2 | 1948 (Emerson, Minnesota), field reports student maps |
| Box 24 Folder 3 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), notes |
| Box 24 Folder 4 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), printed maps |
| Box 24 Folder 5 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student field reports |
| Box 24 Folder 6 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student maps Folder 7: 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 24 Folder 8 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 1 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 2 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 3 | 1949 (Ft. William, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 4 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), notes |
| Box 25 Folder 5 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student field reports |
| Box 25 Folder 6 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student maps |
| Box 25 Folder 7 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 8 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student research papers |
| Box 25 Folder 9 | 1950 (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan), student research papers |
| Box 26 Folder 1 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), notes |
| Box 26 Folder 2 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student field reports |
| Box 26 Folder 3 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student maps |
| Box 26 Folder 4 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 26 Folder 5 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 26 Folder 6 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 26 Folder 7 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student research papers |
| Box 26 Folder 8 | 1951 (Niagara Falls, Ontario), student research papers |
Series VIII: Annals of the Association of American Geographers |
Subseries 1: General Correspondence |
| Box 27 Folder 1 | Allen Press |
| Box 27 Folder 2 | Association of American Geographers, Central Office |
| Box 27 Folder 3 | Association of American Geographers, Central Office |
| Box 27 Folder 4 | Broek, Jan O. M. |
| Box 27 Folder 5 | Chorley, R.J. |
| Box 27 Folder 6 | Gerlach, Arch C. |
| Box 27 Folder 7 | Ginsburg, Norton |
| Box 27 Folder 8 | Harrison, Richard Edes |
| Box 27 Folder 9 | Kikolski, Bohdan |
| Box 27 Folder 10 | Kniffen, Fred |
| Box 27 Folder 11 | Kollmorgen, Walter |
| Box 27 Folder 12 | Lewthwaite, Gordon R. |
| Box 27 Folder 13 | Mikesell, Marvin W. |
| Box 27 Folder 14 | Moodie, Arthur E. |
| Box 28 Folder 1 | Pounds, Norman J.G. |
| Box 28 Folder 2 | Roder, Wolf |
| Box 28 Folder 3 | Ruhe, Robert V. |
| Box 28 Folder 4 | Rutherford, John |
| Box 28 Folder 5 | Sopher, David E. |
| Box 28 Folder 6 | Spencer, Joseph E. |
| Box 28 Folder 7 | Wheeler, Jesse |
| Box 28 Folder 8 | Others, A-F |
| Box 28 Folder 9 | Others, G-J |
| Box 28 Folder 10 | Others, K-N |
| Box 28 Folder 11 | Others, P-Y |
Subseries 2: Correspondence Regarding Published Articles |
| Box 28 Folder 12 | March 1961 (Vol. 51, No. 1) |
| Box 28 Folder 13 | June 1961 (Vol. 51, No. 2) |
| Box 29 Folder 1 | September 1961 (Vol. 51, No. 3) |
| Box 29 Folder 2 | December 1961 (Vol. 51, No. 4) |
| Box 29 Folder 3 | March 1962 (Vol. 52, No. 1) |
| Box 29 Folder 4 | June 1962 (Vol. 52, No. 2) |
| Box 29 Folder 5 | September 1962 (Vol. 52, No. 3) |
| Box 29 Folder 6 | March 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 1) |
| Box 29 Folder 7 | March 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 1) |
| Box 29 Folder 8 | June 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 2) |
| Box 29 Folder 9 | September 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 3) |
| Box 29 Folder 10 | September 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 3) |
| Box 29 Folder 11 | December 1963 (Vol. 53, No. 4) |
Series IX: Postcards |
| Box 30 Folder 1 | Bermuda |
| Box 30 Folder 2 | Latin America |
| Box 30 Folder 3 | Latin America |
| Box 30 Folder 4 | Great Lakes |
| Box 30 Folder 5 | Great Lakes |
| Box 30 Folder 6 | Southern United States |
| Box 30 Folder 7 | Caribbean |
| Box 30 Folder 8 | Caribbean |
| Box 30 Folder 9 | Dutch-German Border |
Series X: Photographs |
Subseries 1: Negatives |
| Box 31 Folder 1 | Hotchkiss School, 1910 |
| Box 31 Folder 2 | Yale University, 1910-1912 |
| Box 31 Folder 3 | Japan and China, 1913 |
| Box 31 Folder 4 | Yale University, 1913-1914; Norway and Sweden, 1914 |
| Box 31 Folder 5 | China, 1914-1915 |
| Box 32 Folder 1 | J. Paul Goode field trip to western U.S., 1915 |
| Box 32 Folder 2 | University of Chicago, 1915-1916; military service, 1917-1918 |
| Box 32 Folder 3 | Miscellaneous negatives separated by RSP:China; U.S. Army; R.D. Salisbury field trip to Stony Island |
| Box 32 Folder 4 | Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, 1920; Dept. of Geography picnic, 1920; Geography 7 field trip to Green Bay, 1921 |
| Box 32 Folder 5 | Geography 6 field trip in Chicago vicinity, 1922; Geography 7 field trip to Ellison Bay, 1922; field trip to Ellison Bay, Iron Mt., and Fox Valley, 1923 |
| Box 32 Folder 6 | Field trip to Dubuque, 1924; Ellison Bay, 1924; geographers' field conference, Sawyer, Michigan, 1929; Geography 366 field trip to Marquette, Michigan, 1929 |
| Box 32 Folder 7 | Geography 366 field trip to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, 1932; Dept. of Geography picnic, 1934 |
Subseries 2: Prints |
| Box 33 Folder 1 | RSP and Platt family |
| Box 33 Folder 2 | University of Chicago campus views entered in photographic contest |
| Box 33 Folder 3 | Dept. of Geography |
| Box 33 Folder 4 | Latin America |
| Box 33 Folder 5 | Latin America |
| Box 33 Folder 6 | Latin America |
| Box 33 Folder 7 | Latin America |
| Box 33 Folder 8 | Latin America |
| Box 34 Folder 1 | Latin America |
| Box 34 Folder 2 | Latin America |
| Box 34 Folder 3 | Latin America, RSP and field party |
| Box 34 Folder 4 | Great Lakes region |
| Box 34 Folder 5 | Great Lakes region |
| Box 34 Folder 6 | Great Lakes region |
| Box 34 Folder 7 | Great Lakes field courses, RSP and students |
| Box 34 Folder 8 | German border |
| Box 34 Folder 9 | Saarland |
Subseries 3: Movie Film |
| Box 35 Folder 1 | RSP and students, 3 reels, 16mm |
Subseries 4: Glass Slides |
| Box 35 Folder 2 | China, 1914-1915 |
| Box 35 Folder 3 | Dept. of Geography and geographers' field conferences, 1914-1923 and undated |
| Box 35 Folder 4 | James Bay traverse, 1934 |
Subseries 5: Film Slides |
| Box 36 | Section 1: 1898-1917 |
| Box 36 | Section 2: 1919-1920 |
| Box 36 | Section 3: 1921-1923 |
| Box 36 | Section 4: 1924-1929 |
| Box 36 | Section 5: 1930-1931 |
| Box 36 | Section 6: 1932-1935 |
| Box 36 | Section 7: 1936-1939 |
| Box 36 | Section 8: 1940-1947 |
| Box 36 | Section 9: 1948-1949 |
| Box 37 | Section 1: 1950-1951 |
| Box 37 | Section 2: 1952 |
| Box 37 | Section 3: 1953 |
| Box 37 | Section 4: 1954 |
| Box 37 | Section 5: 1955 |
| Box 37 | Section 6: 1956-1962 |
| Box 37 | Section 7: 10820 S. Drew, various events, 1925-1955 |
| Box 37 | Section 8: Portraits of RSP |
Series XI: Restricted |
| Box 38 Folder 1 | Instructor’s reports, 1936-1957 |
| Box 38 Folder 2 | Correspondence with students concerning theses, 1929-1942 |
| Box 38 Folder 3 | Letters of recommendation, 1932-1955 |
| Box 38 Folder 4 | Latin America (Geography 247), 1950 and undated |
| Box 38 Folder 5 | Ada V. Espenshade, “Three American Sub-Capitals,” 1940 |
| Box 38 Folder 6 | Richard S. Thoman, “Chicago, a City of Dynamicity,” undated |