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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Got a Wightman globe?
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:31:26 -0400
From:   Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi;

Our globe is produced by Nutri Systems in MA.  It was originally
produced by a high school teacher then taken over by someone at Nutri
Systems.

Cheers
Russell

At 10:10 AM 6/16/2009, you wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Got a Wightman globe?
> Resent-Date:    Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:14:36 -0700
> Resent-From:    Cynthia Jahns <[log in to unmask]>
> Resent-To:      Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum Maps
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:17:31 -0700
> From:   Cynthia Jahns <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     UC Map Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
> CC:     Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>, Julie Sweetkind-Singer
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I received the email request below for information about a globe by A.
> J. Wightman. Do any of you own one of these globes?  If so, would you
> have any idea where you bought it, or other information?
> I see a similar globe on the OMNI web
> site, http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/globes/bathy.htm but it doesn't
> tell who the producer of the globe is.
>
> Thanks - Cynthia Jahns, UC Santa Cruz
>
>
> * "Recently, a friend of a donor inquired about a globe (see attached)
> by A. J. Wightman (a relative of his)
> - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=GLB0199 - which
> may have been purchased by the University in the late 1960s or early
> 1970s. Wightman's work is in the Globe Museum in Vienna and the National
> Maritime Museum in London."
>
>
>
>
> Cynthia Jahns
> Map Librarian, Univ. of Calif. Santa Cruz
>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> 831-459-3187

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