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: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:26:52 -1000 (HST)
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A genealogical website, "USGenNet.org", has loaded the 1895 edition. The URL is <http://www.livgenmi.com/1895>. It inlcudes individual maps of each county and the place name index.

Riley Moffat, Head of Reference
Brigham Young University - Hawaii Library
55-220 Kulanui Street #1966
Laie, Hawaii 96762
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:15:56 -0600
>From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
>Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:09:26 GMT
>From:   Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
>To:     [log in to unmask]
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>The David Rumsey Collection has online:
>
>Rand, McNally & Co.'s Business Atlas. 1897.  Rumsey Pub List No: 4520.000.
>
>http://www.davidrumsey.com/InsightRedirector/InsightRedirector.asp?cmd=start&cid=RUMSEY-8-NA&iia=0&ig=David%20Rumsey%20Collection&isl=0&gwisp=0%7CPub_List_No%7CPub%20List%20No%7C1%7C4520.000%7C2&gwia=3&gc=0
>
>These two registries were established only recently.  A better place to
>search for online maps and atlases (at this point in time) is WorldCat
>-- which should be available through your local public library.  A
>simplified version of that database is freely available on the web at
>http://www.worldcat.org
>
>Another good source is Infomine:
>http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=maps
>
>
>Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
>San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
>-----------------------------------
>Contractor for David Rumsey Collection:
>http://www.davidrumsey.com
>
>-- Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online?
>Date:   Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:01:02 -0600
>From:   Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
>To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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>
>Have any (out of copyright) Rand McNally Commercial Atlases been
>digitized and made available for viewing or download?
>
>The WAML registry has only 47 entries so far, nearly all from the
>David Rumsey Collection.  I was unable to get ANY query of the ALA
>MAGERT Scanning Registry to return anything other than 0 results.

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