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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:10:29 -0400
From: Map Library <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Coastal charts of Lake Michigan (fwd)

At 02:29 PM 8/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
>How could I determine what are the earliest coastal charts of Lake
>Michigan (showing the Chicago area) and who holds them?  I feel
>certain that the Lakes Survey (I may have the name wrong; the
>predecessor to USCGS/NOAA) must have surveyed it by circa 1860.
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Dennis,
Try
Woodford, Arthur M., "Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U.S. Lake
Survey".  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, 1991.  (U.S.
Govrnment Printing Office: 1991/544-359)

Where it says " The surveys of Lake Michigan were completed in 1874 ....."

regards,
Dale Smith
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