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I shall remember Helen Tanner as an exceptionally clever,
goodnatured, and beautiful lady who has been always ready to help any
Newberry Library Fellow with her expertise and warm human advise.
Alexey.
Alexey V. Postnikov (Full Professor, Doctor of Science)
Assessor International Union of the History of Science and Technology
Director "IMAGO MUNDI" International Journal on the History of
Cartography
The Honorable Scientist of the Russian Federation
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International Academy of the History of Science (Paris)
Corresponding Member
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Russian Academy of Sciences'
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On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Bob Karrow wrote:
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The world of cartography and map history lost a skillful
practitioner and devoted student with the passing last week of
Helen Tanner, at the age of 94. Trained as an American historian
and with a PhD (1961) from the University of Michigan, Helen’s
early work on colonial Florida already showed her interest in using
maps as historical sources. Helen developed a great fondness for
the landform maps of Erwin Raisz, which she felt showed so
well the pristine environments and riverine routes of Native
Americans. As she became more and more involved with American
Indian history, working with the Indian Clams Commission after
1963, her knowledge of, and reliance on, maps became a signature
interest. She told a radio interviewer in 2007, "There were too
many Indian Tribes involved and it was too complex a picture.
That's the time I decided I would try to make maps." And make them
she did. Each of the more than 16 Claims Commission cases she
worked on was buttressed by maps informed by intensive archival
work. When the Atlas of Early American History Project commenced
work at the Newberry Library in 1971, Helen was the obvious person
to author their maps showing the Native American presence. Helen
became a dedicated Newberrian, and her commitment to the Library
deepened with the establishment of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for
American Indian and Indigenous Studies in 1972, which she served as
interim director for a year. Her most enduring cartographic
monument remains the Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History, first
published in 1987 and still very much in print, but she continued
and broadened her cartographic range with The settling of North
America : the atlas of the great migrations into North America from
the Ice Age to present (1995). Helen was a founding member of the
Chicago Map Society (1976), addressed the group on several
occasions, and attended meetings whenever she was able. Her
cheerful and energetic manner, and fiercely independent thought
stayed with her to the end, and she will be greatly missed.
--
Robert W. Karrow, Jr.
Curator of Special Collections and Curator of Maps
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324
[email protected]
Phone: 312-255-3554
Fax: 312-255-3646
Search our map catalog at www.biblioserver.com/newberry
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