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Subject: Digital Images and Cataloging
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>


PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS

Colleagues -

The Harvard Map Collection (hcl.harvard.edu/maps) is pleased to announce
the completion of a project to catalog all of their historic (pre-1900)
separate maps for New England. This includes over 1400 maps of New England,
individual states, counties, and cities and towns. The second phase of this
project involves the digital imaging of a selection of these maps which are
then being hyperlinked to their respective Hollis online catalog records.
The third phase involves georeferencing many of these images and placing
the corrected images into the Harvard Geospatial Library.

Included among these collections are the rare set of state maps by D.F.
Sotzmann; the mid-nineteenth century maps of Massachusetts towns by H.F.
Walling; a series of Massachusetts town maps from the 1830's; Carleton's
rare 1797 plan of Boston; the first (?) free road map published by General
Drafting Company; and the earliest (?) road map authored by Walter Watson
and being of the Berkshire Hills in 1883. Also, maps included in the 2003
International Conference on the History of Cartography 'Cartographic
Treasures at Harvard' exhibit are being added. Cataloging has now shifted
to our collection of United States maps and then will continue south
geographically with images to follow. Questions or comments may be
addressed to David Cobb ([log in to unmask]).

David Cobb

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