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Subject: Japanese WW2 maps
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:15:22 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
To: mapsL <[log in to unmask]>
The NLA has about 200 WW2 Japanese maps of Malaya, the Dutch East
Indies, New Guinea, and some Pacific Islands.
The Malayan and Borneo sheets (50k of Riau archipelago and 100k series
of Malaya/Thailand and Borneo) have been indexed, but not catalogued.
The other sheets have been catalogued as a Special COllection,
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4397710
and individually
(eg Kokoda track)
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4367659
for a full listing see
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Browse/Callnumbers?browse=callnumbers&from=map+jap.+mil.&page=0
and the next 4 pages.
I'm not sure about the provenance, but no doubt it's in our files.
None of these maps have been scanned yet.
Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator
Map Section
National Library of Australia
Parkes
ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
>
> Hi, all,
>
> Efforts are underway at Branner Library to catalog, scan and make available
> our set of Captured Japanese WWII maps that were distributed to libraries in
> the United States by the Army Map Service after the end of the war. We
> believe we have about 10-12,000 sheets from China, Japan, Taiwan, the
> Philippines, Manchuria, and Korea (North and South).
>
> Phil Hoehn, when working at UC Berkeley, had their complete set
> cataloged and
> these can be found by searching OCLC. We also know of the sets at Clark
> University and the Library of Congress. I have noted that Central Oklahoma
> has some (how many?) and the University of Wisconsin (how many?). Anyone
> else? If you do hold these maps, either cataloged or uncataloged, I'd be
> interested to know the following.
>
> 1. Are they cataloged?
> 2. About how many do you have? (pieces and sets) 3. Do you know how you got
> them?
> 4. Have you scanned them?
>
> Thanks for any information you can provide.
>
> Best,
>
> Julie
>
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> Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data &
> Services
> Head Librarian Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections Stanford
> University
> 397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
> Stanford, CA 94305
> (650)725-1102
>
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