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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:56:47 +0100
From: "Carlucci, April" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Pre-Suez Cannel Maps of Egypt. <fwd>
Sender: "Carlucci, April" <[log in to unmask]>



Chris

Sorry not to have answered sooner, but I'm a little behind on my e-mail
inbox!

The British Library Map Library catalogue shows 59 items for Egypt between
1820 and 1850. This is just a quick search and of course not all will apply.


Please advise your reader to check our website at www.bl.uk/maps for
descriptions of our collections and access to them. There is a separate page
on the BL general website that discusses copying services and charges.

Unfortunately, the catalogue of the Map Library is not yet available online,
not for lack of trying on our part! The British Library Public Catalogue
(BLPC) which is available at the website does NOT include the 210,000+
records of the Map Library, although the introduction to BLPC is pretty
vague about this. We are glad to search the Map Library catalogue for
readers contacting us via our e-mail address [log in to unmask]

Just two other points. There remains a lot of confusion between the British
Museum and the British Library. Originally, the national library collections
of Britain (starting with the library of King George III) were deposited in
the British Museum. Eventually, there was an administrative reorganization
which established the British Library as a separate unit, although we
squatted in the Museum building in Great Russell Street until we had our own
home, here in the new building in St Pancras. The two entities are now
completely separate. The British Musuem has a relatively small collection of
maps in its Prints and Drawings Department; however, the bulk of the map
collections (4,250,000 sheets) are in the British Library. And Tony Campbell
retired from the post of Map Librarian last year--Peter Barber has been Map
Librarian since then.

Regards
April Carlucci
Curator of Modern Maps and Cataloguing Manager
British Library Map Collections

-----Original Message-----
From: Johnnie Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 September 2002 20:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: FW: Pre-Suez Cannel Maps of Egypt. <fwd>


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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:06:44 -0700
From: "Kollen, Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Pre-Suez Cannel Maps of Egypt.
Sender: "Kollen, Chris" <[log in to unmask]>



I received this message today.  We don't have anything that will help him
out.  Anyone have any ideas?  He thought about contacting the British
Library, would that be either April Carlucci or Tony Campbell?

Thanks

Chris Kollen

Chris Kollen
University of Arizona Library
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ   85721-0055
(520) 621-4869
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-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond L. Beatty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Pre-Suez Cannel Maps of Egypt.



Dear Ms Kollen,

I was recently at the library with my son searching for maps of the Suez
and lower Egypt area, particularly maps with several ancient cities and
other areas showing on the maps.  While we found several maps that
indicated some of the cities, and bodies of water that were located in
the area around Baal Zephron, Migdol and Succoth, we were unable to find
any maps with any detail of bodies of water, the cities mentioned and
especially any maps showing the type of terrain geographically that
existed before the Suez Cannel was built, which destroyed all of the
bodies of water that were there and rearranged the landscape.

My purpose in searching for this material and specifically maps of the
period between 1820 to about 1850 is to confirm research I am working on
for a book on the Exodus.  The cities I have mentioned, the bodies of
water, and in particular the location of Pihahiroth, which is near one of
the bodies of water that existed prior to Suez, is all connected and by
finding a reliable map covering all of this information, will greatly
help me in completing my research and ultimately the book I am writing
about the Exodus.

You card was given to me by one of the librarians trying to help me when
I was there and he suggested that I write you and ask you for some help.
Anything along the lines of what I have described here would be of great
help.  I should say that I have written the Library of Congress, and all
that they sent me were maps covering the construction of the Suez Cannel.
 I have considered contacting the British Museum, thinking that there
might be military maps from that period that would provide the
information I'm looking for, but I hit a dead end with their web site,
and I don't know how to get around it without talking to someone from
there.  If there are other sources available for such information that I
haven't mentioned that you are aware of, I would deeply appreciate
knowing of them.

Again, thank you for any assistance you might be able to offer.

Ray Beatty
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