Walter Ristow
Encyclopedia
Walter William Ristow was the head librarian of the map library at the New York Public Library
and later the Library of Congress
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The Washington Map Society gives an award in his name annually to an author of "a paper in the field of cartographic history or map librarianship."
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
and later the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
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The Washington Map Society gives an award in his name annually to an author of "a paper in the field of cartographic history or map librarianship."
Publications and papers
- American maps and map makers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, 1985.
- The emergence of maps in libraries, 1980.
- Walter W. Ristow papers, La Crosse, Wisconsin Public Library, library archives: articles by Walter Ristow on maps and their use in libraries.