Women's Worlds at the American Geographical SocietyFootnote^*

* I appreciate the assistance of the ags archivist, Peter Lewis, in providing access to materials; of Dorothy Drummond, Harvey Flad, David Lowenthal, Mary Ann Lowenthal, Lynn Mullins, and Miklos Pinther for information about life at the ags; of the Society of Woman Geographers for providing access to its oral history collections; of the late Margaret Trussell for giving me her files on Wilma Fairchild; of John Fraser Hart and Wilbur Zelinsky for permission to cite their correspondence with Wilma Fairchild; of Chris Baruth, curator of the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee for drawing my attention to the quotation I use as the epigraph (now on a plaque at the entrance to the AGS Library's rare materials room); and to Sarah Kerr (formerly Myers) for her insightful copyediting of this manuscript, to which she brought her personal experience of the Society.

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