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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The AGS </span><span class="highlight" id="0.023952135479636816" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Library</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> is

one of the premier collections of its kind in North America, containing over 1.3 million items including maps, atlases, books, periodicals, and photographs. The cartographic collection dates to 1452, with particular strengths in documents related to <span class="highlight" id="0.6082256983044809" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> empire.

 The collections are vast and varied, and include, for example, the portfolio of maps used by the </span><span class="highlight" id="0.9009781222216902" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">American</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">delegation

 to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; an original copy of the 1861 Daedong yeojido by Korean cartographer Kim Jeong-ho; and extensive collections from Latin America, Asia and Polar regions. </span><br>

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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank" title="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/

Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk200496">Photographic

 collections</a> <a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk638196"></a><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/photos/" target="_blank"></a></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">reflect the global travels and

 studies of individual geographers and members of the <span class="highlight" id="0.31887748983955255" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Society</span> throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, with particularly notable collections in

 polar exploration and Western U.S. expansion. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=AGSL+Manuscript+Collection+&location=wimiags&Submit=Search" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">Archives</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> include

 various collections related to the history of <span class="highlight" id="0.4986478547570041" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">American</span> geography. </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/books/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">Books

 and periodicals</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> include an extensive collection of early travel literature and guidebooks, as well as a rich historical collection of globally produced <span class="highlight" id="0.4482927377022434" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">geographical</span> periodicals. </span></p>

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<li class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Scholars at all levels, including faculty and Ph.D. dissertators, at U.S. federally defined Minority-Serving Institutions are eligible for the AGSL <span class="highlight" id="0.5499773329764257" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fellowships</span> for

MSI Scholars. ($600/week, up to 4 weeks) <span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></li><li class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Scholars at all levels, including faculty and Ph.D. dissertators, at any university are eligible for John and Helen Best <span class="highlight" id="0.952055048835492" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fellowships.

 ($400/week, up to 4 weeks)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></li></ul>

<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Complete fellowship descriptions can be found on the </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/fellowshipdescriptions/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">AGSL

 website</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. Past fellowship recipients have included scholars of history, geography, cartography, climate, environmental studies, and literature. Lists of previous AGSL fellowship recipients and their

 projects may be found </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ags-library-mccoll-fellows/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/ags-library-best-fellows/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. <b>Applications

 for the <span class="highlight" id="0.9136985679192584" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2017</span> <span class="highlight" id="0.1708082277498404" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">fellowships</span> are

 due on November 4, 2016.</b></span></p>

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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please contact Curator Marcy Bidney (</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:bidney@uwm.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">bidney@uwm.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">)

 with questions about the <span class="highlight" id="0.8110179727032356" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">fellowships</span> or our collections. Photos of the AGS <span class="highlight" id="0.6285014603236667" name="searchHitInReadingPane" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Library</span> can

 be viewed on our </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:blue">Flickr page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. </span><br>

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