All Three B.J.S. Cahill Collections at
University of California, Berkeley
(plus singles)
(Online "Pathfinder Catalog" search listing
as found and re-grouped by Gene Keyes)
2009-03-07
Notes:
B.J.S. Cahill archive collections are in three locations on the University of California Berkeley campus. As abbreviated in the listings below, "BANC" is Bancroft Library, which has two separate collections in two different rooms: one is mostly maps; the other, mostly papers. "CEDA" is Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design, containing mostly non-map architectural work of Cahill, but some map-related materials as well.
("EART" is "Earth Sciences & Map Library, McCone Hall", but that only has a few singles.)
CEDA has an online finder's aid, but Bancroft does not; so I have digitized the typed index of Bancroft's Cahill map collection, and posted it here.
I had perused these collections in person in 1983 (pre-Internet!), but have not been back since then. Living in Nova Scotia on the opposite coast from Berkeley, I did a new Cahill search, using the University of California's online "Pathfinder Catalog", in March 2009.
"Pathfinder" was difficult to use: e.g., the fullest results (nine) come from entering "Cahill, Bernard" as an author search, but none from "Cahill, B.J.S.", and only three appear if you seek "Cahill butterfly map" as title key words. "Butterfly map" as a subject turns up seven (including my own "Cahill-Keyes" map despite its lack of the word "butterfly"), whereas "Cahill butterfly map" as s subject gets nothing.
It does not reload the enormous URL of your session, which has timed out if you try to return to it. (All the collection-links below have expired for the same reason, but you can get their slightly more detailed listings by using the "Pathfinder Catalog" link and re-entering the search terms as given above.)
While Pathfinder conveniently can send you an e-mail of your search results, it is not formatted nearly as well as the original; so instead, I have directly copied them here in lieu of the e-mail version, and done some tidying and re-arranging.
Cahill's actual birth date is 1866, not 1867 as stated below.
B.J.S. Cahill archive collections are in three locations on the University of California Berkeley campus. As abbreviated in the listings below, "BANC" is Bancroft Library, which has two separate collections in two different rooms: one is mostly maps; the other, mostly papers. "CEDA" is Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design, containing mostly non-map architectural work of Cahill, but some map-related materials as well.
("EART" is "Earth Sciences & Map Library, McCone Hall", but that only has a few singles.)
CEDA has an online finder's aid, but Bancroft does not; so I have digitized the typed index of Bancroft's Cahill map collection, and posted it here.
I had perused these collections in person in 1983 (pre-Internet!), but have not been back since then. Living in Nova Scotia on the opposite coast from Berkeley, I did a new Cahill search, using the University of California's online "Pathfinder Catalog", in March 2009.
"Pathfinder" was difficult to use: e.g., the fullest results (nine) come from entering "Cahill, Bernard" as an author search, but none from "Cahill, B.J.S.", and only three appear if you seek "Cahill butterfly map" as title key words. "Butterfly map" as a subject turns up seven (including my own "Cahill-Keyes" map despite its lack of the word "butterfly"), whereas "Cahill butterfly map" as s subject gets nothing.
It does not reload the enormous URL of your session, which has timed out if you try to return to it. (All the collection-links below have expired for the same reason, but you can get their slightly more detailed listings by using the "Pathfinder Catalog" link and re-entering the search terms as given above.)
While Pathfinder conveniently can send you an e-mail of your search results, it is not formatted nearly as well as the original; so instead, I have directly copied them here in lieu of the e-mail version, and done some tidying and re-arranging.
Cahill's actual birth date is 1866, not 1867 as stated below.
[The three Cahill collections, via "Cahill, Bernard" author query in Pathfinder; to repeat, all its links have timed out, but can be found by repeating the same query above]:
| 1. | [Collection of maps, diagrams and globes relating to the
Butterfly Map, and its development and promotion / <1909> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Published: [1909?]-1936 Format: Map Description: 205 maps and diagrams, 1 globe, 4 polyhedral globes : some ms., some col. ; 110 x 163 cm. or smaller Notes: Includes ms., photocopies and printed items. Most are variants of the Butterfly map drawn or printed by B.J.S. Cahill or the Cahill World Map Co. Location(s): BANC: G3201.B72 svar .C3; Contact Bancroft Library for availability.: Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. |
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| 2. | Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill papers, [ca. 1900-1944] <1900> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Format: Collection Description: 2 cartons, 1 box, 3 oversize folders (3 linear ft.) Notes: The collection consists primarily of Cahill's professional, business, and personal papers, covering the years 1906 to 1942. Most of the material relates to his "Butterfly map projection," including extensive correspondence with cartographers, mathematicians, students, and publishers. Also included are records of the Cahill World Map Company and personal diaries. Diaries document Cahill's career and include sketches and references to architectural projects. Location(s): BANC: BANC MSS 83/39 c; Contact Bancroft Library for availability.: Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. |
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| 3. | Bernard J. S. Cahill collection, [ca. 1889-1938] <1889> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Format: Collection Description: 3 boxes, 5 oversize folders, 1 flat box, 2 artifacts. Notes: The bulk of the collection consists of Cahill's office records, which include photographs, clippings and scrapbooks that illustrate his completed projects. Project records primarily relate to funerary commissions, but letters and clippings about the San Francisco Civic Center are also included. The collection also contains a small number of records from the Cahill World Map Company, and personal and professional writings by Cahill. Location(s): CEDA: ARCH 19XX-3 Electronic Location(s): 
Finding aid: http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/ |
[Siingle items also listed from the "Cahill, Bernard" author query:]
| 4. | Map of the world to the scale of a 6 inch globe : drawn
on the "Butterfly" projection invented by B.J.S. Cahill <1925> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Published: [Oakland, Calif. : B.J.S. Cahill, 1925?]. Format: Map Description:1 map ; on sheet 39 x 56 cm Notes: Includes 2 inset maps Description of "The Butterfly Map" and illus. on verso "Pat. 2-25-13." Location(s): EART: G3201.B72 1925 .C3 Case D |
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| 5. | Map of the world to the scale of a 6 inch globe : drawn
on the "Butterfly" projection invented by B.J.S. Cahill <1925> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Published: [Oakland, Calif. : B.J.S. Cahill, 1925?] Format: Map Description:1 map ; on sheet 39 x 56 cm Notes: Includes 2 inset maps Description of "The Butterfly Map" and illus. on verso "Pat. 2-25-13." Location(s): BANC: G3201.B72 svar .C3 no. 49 Case XB; Contact Bancroft Library for availability.: Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. |
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| 6. | Port of Charleston, the short route of the commercial world
: drawn on the decentralized octahedral or Butterfly projection. <1924> |
| Author: Charleston (S.C.).
Bureau of Foreign Trade and Port Development. Published: New York : C.S. Hammond & Co., 1924. Format: Map Description:1 map : col. ; 52 x 91 cm., on sheet 61 x 97 cm. Notes: Shows shipping distances from Charleston to major world ports. Includes text, charts and maps. Shows "great circle scale in nautical miles." Location(s): EART: G3201.P54 1924 .C4 Case B; |
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| 7. | The Circumaviation of the globe : under the auspices of
the Panama-Pacific Universal Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 / <1914> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Published: San Francisco, Calif. : The Cos., c1914 Format: Map Description:1 map ; on sheet 36 x 51 cm Notes: Includes illus., distance table and text "The route of the airmen shown on the Butterfly Map invented by B.J.S. Cahill." Location(s): BANC: G3201.B72 svar .C3 no. 50 Case XB; Contact Bancroft Library for availability.: Non-circulating; may be used only in The Bancroft Library. |
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| 8. | An account of a land map of the world on a new and original
projection <1913> |
| Author: Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard
J. S.), 1867- Published: [New York, 1913] Description:p. 153-207. illus. (maps) diagrs. 24 cm. Notes: Cover-title. "Reprinted from the Journal of the Association of engineering societies for October, 1913." Location(s): MAIN: GA110 .C3; |
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| 9. | Port of San Francisco, strategic center of world trade :
sea routes shown on the butterfly map invented by B.J.S. Cahill. <1913> |
| Published: [San Francisco?
: s.n., 1913?] Format: Map Description:1 map : col. ; 22 x 40 cm. Notes: "Pat. 2-25-13." Text and steamboat timetables on verso. Location(s): EART: G3201.P54 1913 .P6 Case D; |
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[and for good measure, found in "butterfly map" as a subject
search]: |
| 1. | The
Cahill-Keyes "real-world" map / <1980> |
| Author: Keyes, Gene. Published: [Fredricton, N.B.?] : Gene Keyes, c1980. Format: Map Location(s): EART: G3201.B72 1980 .K4 Case D |