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Subject: crass commercialism from NYPL's "Map Shop in the Library Shop"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:27:43 -0400
From: "ahudson" <[log in to unmask]>


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Dear mapsters,

The NYPL retail shop has created an online "map shop" with mappy stuff
for
sale. Income goes to support NYPL, not the Map Division itself. I am
passing this along for your interest as cartophiliacs and cartifact
collectors.

http://www.thelibraryshop.org/maps.html


Enjoy!

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027

http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html

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