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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:00:36 -0800
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Subject: Soil Maps
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     I am thinking of applying for a grant to preserve our large collection
of old county soil maps from the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.  We
have over 600 of these maps dating from ca. 1900-1940.

     I would like to know if other libraries have made efforts to preserve
these maps, and if others think the preservation of a collection like ours
would be worthwhile.  If anyone has any interesting stories about how
researchers have used these maps, I would also like to hear them--they
would be a big help for me in writing my justification.

David Allen
Map Collection
SUNY Stony Brook
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