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Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975)
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Carl Sauer led the field of cultural geography at the University of California Berkeley, where he taught for over thirty years. Sauer's influence in the field became known as the "Berkeley School" of geography.

Biographical Sketch
A short online curriculum vitae of Carl Sauer from the Berkeley Department of Geography.

Carl Sauer, 1936
A photograph of Sauer in 1936; presumably in Sonoma County, California.

Presidential Addresses
Two Presidential Addresses from Carl Sauer for the Association of American Geographers - from addresses in 1940 and 1955. The latter is an address as the Honorary President, a position Sauer held in 1955.

Will Carl O. Make It Across that Big Ol' Bridge...
An article by Professor Bret Wallach about his examination of Sauer's papers at Berkeley's Bancroft Library. A bit of an introspection by Wallach. This appeared in the Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers in 1999.

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