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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:52:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Colleen Cahill <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: MAPS-L Digest - 18 Sep 2002 to 19 Sep 2002 (#2002-156)
Sender: Colleen Cahill <[log in to unmask]>
Michael,
The Library of Congress has several maps of China online for which you
can download the MrSID file. All are in public domain, the earliest being
1800? and the latest being a CIA map from 1979. If you go to
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdquery.html> and search for China you will
get a list of 24 maps, some of which are regions in China. Please let me
know if I can be of any other help.
Colleen
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> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:36:20 -0400
> From: Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Digital Maps Of China
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a professor who needs digitized maps of the People's Republic of
> China. They need to be in the public domain since she intends to print the
> map in an article she is writing. Can anyone suggest any sites that have
> such maps?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Michael
> ****************
> Michael Matis
> Dewey Graduate Library
> University at Albany
> 135 Western Avenue
> Albany, NY 12222
> (518) 442-3692
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> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:37:35 -0400
> From: Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Pre-Suez Cannel Maps of Egypt. <fwd>
>
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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
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> -----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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