P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography

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Identifier: 8548

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Scope and content

Collection consists of maps, graphics (such as posters, caricatures, etc.), and books and pamphlets containing maps, that are intended primarily to influence the opinion of the viewer--to send a message--rather than to communicate geographic information. The collection reflects a variety of persuasive tools: allegorical, satirical and pictorial mapping; selective inclusion or exclusion; unusual projections, graphics and text; and intentional deception. Maps in the collection address a wide range of messages: religious, political, military, commercial, moral and social. This finding aid also includes links to digital reproductions, which can also be accessed in the Digital Collections Portal: https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/.

Dates

1491 - 2020

Creator

Mode, P. J. (Collector, Person)
Cornell University. Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (Organization)

Language of Material

Mainly in English; some items in French, German, and Chinese.

Restrictions on Access

Bound materials are still in processing and currently unavailable.

Biographical / Historical

PJ Mode, Cornell Class of 1960, served in the U.S. Navy, graduated from Harvard Law School and worked for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. From 1970 to 1973 he was chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and chief legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana. He was a partner and later chairman of the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. From 2003 until retiring in 2013 he served as special counsel to Citigroup, managing the company's defense and resolution of investigations and lawsuits related to financial failures and credit crisis. A student and collector of maps since 1980, he later developed a special focus on collecting, researching and writing about “persuasive cartography.”