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Subject:	300 year old Mexican codice found at the AGS Library, UW Milwaukee
From:	"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:04:38 -0500
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The AGS Library is in the process of "recataloging" materials from the
rare room. Items are cataloged in detail using a card catalog but now
librarians are getting everything entered into the online catalog. As
part of this process of shifting and reshelving materials,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/sets/72157629495808927/,

a rolled map was discovered.

Faculty at UW Milwaukee, Marquette University and the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México have determined that the item is a 300 year
old Mexican codice.

View Marquette University Professor Laura Matthew's blog here:
http://marquettehistorians.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/lost-and-found-three-hundred-year-old-mexican-document-found-in-milwaukee/

Angie Cope, AGSL

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