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Subject: Re: classification of NG map on Gettysburg Campaign
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paige G Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Ken,

I think your classification number is right on target. It is unfortunate
that someone classed this for either the battlefield itself or the city
of Gettysburg, as you correctly note, the geographic area shown by the
map is way more than either of these, combined or separate! So, LC
policy is to go to the next highest geographic level if the area covered
is in two or more places, which you have done. And then, rightly so, you
changed the date to reflect the date of situation as opposed to the date
of publication, a key difference.

Paige

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Subject: classification of NG map on Gettysburg Campaign

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Subject:        classification of NG map on Gettysburg Campaign
Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:30:01 -0400
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



I put off doing this map while tending to some other maps recently
purchased, some of which required original cataloging. Now I am back to
it, and here is why I put off this one that should have been easy-peasy.

It’s a map showing two units, one a Virginia regiment of Lee’s Army of
Northern Virginia, the other a Pennsylvania regiment in Meade’s Army of
the Potomac. It traces their routes from Chancellorsville to
(ultimately) Gettysburg, with skirmishes, the Va regiment’s jaunt north
to Carlisle before a rendezvous near Gettysburg with other CSA units.

One record used G3822.G4 for Gettysburg National Battlefield, another
used G3824.G3 for city of Gettysburg. Both used the publication date,
2012, for a map whose title is “1863, Turning Point of the Civil War.”

To my mind there was more than one conundrum presented by this. It is
not a map of the battlefield, and it is certainly not a map of the city.
It is also not a map that shows the situation in 2012. It is a map
showing routes between central Virginia and east central Pennsylvania.
So I have classed it as G3791.S5 1863. That is Middle Atlantic States,
history, U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865, showing a situation that occurred
over some weeks in 1863.

Because the record I plan to use has had 45 uses, I am reluctant to
replace the record with this new classification number. Does anyone have
any thoughts on this, other than what I have presented?

Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>

Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726

Miami University Libraries

Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA