Background
Brown, Lloyd Arnold was born on May 5, 1907 in Providence. Son of Arnold Cleveland and Eva Leone (Corbin) Brown.
Brown, Lloyd Arnold was born on May 5, 1907 in Providence. Son of Arnold Cleveland and Eva Leone (Corbin) Brown.
Student Wayne U., 1928-1929. Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1933.
1 son, Stephen Seabury. Organized firm Brown & Dunning, rare books, 1933. Curator maps, William L. Clements Library, 1935-1940, acting director, 1941.
Librarian Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 1942-1956. Instructor geography Johns Hopkins, 1943-1947, lecturer cartography, 1947-1956. Director Chicago History Society, 1956-1958.
Director research Historic Annapolis. Inc., 1960-1963; curator maps Wesleyan University, since 1963. Contributor articles on maps and surveys in Dictionary of American History, 1940.
Notes on the Care and Cataloguing of Old Maps, 1941. The Cassini World Map of 1696, 1941. The Story of Maps, 1949.
Early Maps of the Ohio River, 1960. Map Making, the Art that Became a Science, 1960. Editor: Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn (with H. H. Peckham), 1939.
Notes and Queries in “The Colophon,” 1940, 14 maps in Atlas of American History, 1943.
Member editorial advisory board of America Neptune. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, Association American Geographers, Bibliographical Society American, Maryland.
History Society; Clubs: Johns Hopkins, Grolier, Odd Volumes. Caxton, 14 West Hamilton St. (Baltimore).
Married Florence Eldred Dragoo, 1935.