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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Diana is correct.  The map that you described is from the 1964 Atlas of
Florida.  The famous cartographer, Erwin Raisz, retired to Florida to
compile the first thematic Atlas of Florida.  He worked with John Henry
Davis so his atlas printed the vegetation map of Florida before the 60 x 70
cm. 1:1,250,000 map was printed separately in 1967.  John Henry Davis was an
expert on Florida Vegetation beginning in the 1940's.

I have checked all of the various atlases of Florida and this is the only
one with the #15 with 16 vegetation types.  The word vegetation is no longer
used in the latest atlas of Florida.

Please let me know if you need any further information.
Helen

HelenJane Armstrong, PhD
Head, Map & Imagery Library
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117011
Gainesville, FL 32611-7011


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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: "Rivera, Diana"
Subject: RE:MAPS-L: Help with map identification


Ken,  I checked our copy and the page I find the map you describe is on page
44 and is only 31 cm.

The atlas you want to look in is
 G1315 .R3 1964
 AUTHOR       Raisz, Erwin, 1893-1968.
 TITLE        Atlas of Florida, by Erwin Raisz and associates; with text by
              John R. Dunkle. Prepared in the Dept. of Geography, University
of
              Florida.
 IMPRINT      Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1964.
 DESCRIPT     52 p. col. illus., col. maps (1 fold. in pocket) col. diagrs.
37
              cm.


Diana Rivera
MSU Libraries

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Date: Tue, 3 May 2005
From: Ken Grabach
Subject: Help with map identification

Hello, colleagues.

In cataloging some maps, I have encountered a map that is copied from a
printed original, and I am trying to identify that printed original, with
limited success.

The source appears to be a thematic atlas of Florida.  The map I have
reads:  "15.  Natural Vegetation".  Its legend includes 16 categories of
vegetation types, starting with 1 -- Northern grassy longleaf pine forest,
and concluding with 16 -- Coastal marshes, strands, and dunes.  It
includes a brief text discussing the origins of Florida's unique
vegetation patterns, and below that are four illustrations, probably in
color, showing "Beach Vegetation, Flatwoods, Cypress Swamp, [and]
Grassland".  It is about 35 cm. in height, and appears to be on the recto
of a page, with 15 at the lower right corner.  A bar scale shows somewhat
more than 1 inch to 50 miles; the natural scale indicator shows
ca. 1:3,000,000.  The type faces are of various sans serif fonts.

A note gives the source of the map data:  "Source:  Based on a map by John
H. Davis, Department of Botany, University of Florida".  This map is
General map of natural vegetation of Florida, 1967.  Thus, we have a date
clue for the map copy, after 1967.

A good candidate for the original of the map in hand could be The New
Florida Atlas, by Wood and Fernald, 1974.  This atlas is listed in our
collection, but I cannot track it to ground.  I would very much appreciate
it if someone with this atlas in the collection could see if it includes a
map as described above.  If it does not, that too would be useful
information.

Ken
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Ken Grabach
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA


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