Series 4 - Articles, books and addresses

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UTA 1679-4

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Articles, books and addresses

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  • 1943–1972 (Creation)

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0.4 m of textual records

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(1903-1977)

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Scope and content

This series contains draft and edited manuscripts and typescripts of books, chapters of books and articles authored by Putnam throughout the course of his career. Included is a complete typescript of his book Canadian Regions first published in 1952 and subsequently revised several times. There are also files relating to his numerous contributions about Canadian geography to encyclopaedia such as the Chambers’s Encyclopaedia, the Encyclopaedia Americana and the Encyclopaedia of Britannica which also contain correspondence with the publishers.

Also in this series are addresses made by Putnam and memorandum written by him, most of which are undated. Of some interest are addresses “Thoughts on Geography in Canada” and “Geography in Canadian Universities” which detail Putnam’s thought on the state of the discipline, its teachers and praticioners. There is also a manuscript of a memorandum written in 1951 to Dean Beatty entitled “Geography at Toronto, - Past, Present and Future” which describes the history of the department and its current state.

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Accruals

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Arrangement is as follows: 1) Articles and Chapters of Books 2) Books 3) Contributions to encyclopaedia 4) Addresses 5) Memoranda

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      B1997-0029/004-/005

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