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.

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Steering Committee:

• William Ginsberg, New York (co-chair)
• J. Thomas Touchton, Florida (co-chair)
• Roger S. Baskes, Illinois
• Wesley A. Brown, Colorado
• Allen Carroll, Washington, D.C.
• Barbara Adele Fine, Washington, D.C.
• Joseph H. Fitzgerald, Florida
• Jenkins and Virginia Garrett, Texas
• Robert A. Highbarger, Maryland
• Arthur Holzheimer, Illinois
• Jay Lester, North Carolina
• Glen McLaughlin, California
• Kenneth Nebenzahl, Illinois
• Gary W. North, Virginia
• Roni Pick, Massachusetts
• Seymour I. Schwartz, New York
• George Tobolowsky, Texas

Academic Advisors:

• Louis DeVorsey, University of Georgia, Emeritus
• Ronald Grim, Boston Public Library
• Alice Hudson, New York Public Library
• Mark Monmonier, Syracuse University
• Mary Pedley, University of Michigan
• Dennis Reinhartz, University of Texas - Arlington
• Richard W. Stephenson
• Norman J. W. Thrower, University of California - Los Angeles
• Cordell D. K. Yee, St. John's College, Annapolis

Ex Officio:

• John R. Hébert, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1999-present)
• Ralph E. Ehrenberg, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1991-1998)
• John A. Wolter, (Chief, Geography and Map Division, 1978-1991)

Executive Secretary:

• Patricia Molen van Ee, Specialist in Cartographic History, Geography and Map Division

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

Patricia Molen van Ee
Executive Secretary
p) 202/707-8534
f) 202/707-8531
pvanee@loc.gov.
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