[UMA-SRE-20190022] PUBLICATIONS COLLECTED BY FRITZ LOEWE

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IdentifierUMA-SRE-20190022Extent15 boxesLinear Meterage2.82Scope and ContentThe Fritz Loewe Collection consists of three series of records which together document Fritz Loewe’s extensive meteorological and glaciological research. They contain a large volume of correspondence, papers, reports, diaries, notes, reference lists, data, graphs, maps, and other assorted records. These series offer testimony to the private life and significant scientific work of Fritz Loewe, particularly his research on Greenland (including his experiences on the Wegener Expedition in 1929-1930) and Antarctica (including his experiences on the Wyatt Earp Expedition in 1947 and the French Scientific Expedition in 1950-1951). The majority of these publications are written in German with several other languages including English represented.
This series, Publications Collected by Fritz Loewe, comprises a varied set of publications and maps. These records have been grouped into the following categories:
• Journals, newsletters and magazines (1907-1979) [2019.0022.00001 - 2019.0022.00031] including: Alma Mater Joachimica; Der Alte Joachimsthaler; The Australian Journal of Science; Kriegszeitung der 4ten Armee; Meereskunde; Meteorologische Zeitschrift; Mitteilungsblatt der Ehemaligen Schuelerinned des Schillergymnasiums zu Dortmund; The Science Review; Der Seminarklasse zu Dortmund Abschiedszeitung; and Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin.
• Travel guides and hiking maps (1888-1890) [2019.0022.000032 - 2019.0022.00081] including: rare early published guidebooks indexed by Fritz Loewe in a notebook titled ‘Verzeichnis für Karten u. Reiseführer’ [Directory of Maps and Travel Guides, 2019.0022.000032]. This notebook shows Loewe’s careful curation of these records, indexed by categories including type of publication, map scale, region, city and country.
• Topographical and large scale maps (1885-1960) [2019.0022.000082 - 2019.0022.00111] including: various topographical and large scale maps of different countries; maps of the German Reich.
• Tourist Ephemera (1929-1974) [2019.0022.00112 - 2019.0022.00177] including: maps, travel guides and tourist information ephemera from various countries and regions acquired by Fritz and Else Loewe on research expeditions, overseas postings and holidays.ArrangementThe papers of Fritz Loewe were first acquired by the University of Melbourne Archives in 1988 with small additions in the 1990s. When received in 1988 in three tranches, the collection was hastily arranged into groups by bringing together Loewe’s records of expeditions, photographs and his publications. The archivists noted that a more thorough arrangement and description was needed. This proved elusive, however, because most of the records were written in German and needed a German speaking archivist to process them. Interest in the collection by researchers resulted in some unplanned rearrangement. in 2015, a box list was created by recording the details written in English on the front of each box at acquisition.
In 2018, the Archives was offered a grant to arrange and describe the Loewe Papers in detail. Two archivists were employed, one of whom was fluent in German. Their analysis of the Papers resulted in three broad series being gathered and described, all file titles recorded in English and German, and names of important events and correspondents being added to the descriptions to enable discovery.
Private and Professional Correspondence of Fritz Loewe (2019.0020)
Research and Unpublished Papers of Fritz Loewe (2019.0021)
Private and Professional Correspondence of Fritz Loewe (2019.0022)Collection CategoryUniversity, individualsAccess StatusOpen for public accessRequest Access to RecordsRequest records from this SeriesSearch within this Series

Provenance

CreatorLoewe, Fritz P.

Dates

Date1885-1979

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Previous System ID2019.0022State of ListFully listed

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[UMA-SRE-20190022] PUBLICATIONS COLLECTED BY FRITZ LOEWE