Guide to the J.S. Cumpston Map Collection, 1782-1982

Summary

Collection number:

MFC 18

Creator:

Cumpston, John Stanley , Dr. and Cumpston, Helen

Extent:

639 items

Language:

Multiple languages

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference. Not for loan.

Background

Biographical Note:

He was departmental historian in the 1960s until his retirement at the end of the decade. In the 1970s, when Cumpston was an ANU Visiting Fellow and Helen also worked at the ANU, he visited the United States of America, photographing on microfilm 3,500 whaling log-books, resulting in the largest collection of these log-books in the world.

J.S. Cumpston died in 1986.

Immediate Source of Acquisition:

Purchased as part of the Papers of John Stanley Cumpston by the National Library of Australia from his widow Helen in 1986.

Map collection accessioned in 1989.

Arrangement:

Numbering imposed, based on the order of hand written listing for each folder, possibly generated upon accessioning.

Related

Separated Material:

View the catalogue record for the Papers of John Stanley Cumpston, 1959-1967, at https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3648417.

Internal records indicate 1 roll of various maps came from Box 151 of this MS collection.

4 maps (of Cairo, Tripoli, Africa, and El Adem in the 1930s-1940s) are held in Box 51 of this MS collection.

Indexed terms

Names:

Cumpston, Helen

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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