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MAPS-L: Vintage road maps a window on their time
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Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:08:39 -0600
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Subject:        MAPS-L: Vintage road maps a window on their time
Date:   Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:02:57 -0800 (PST)
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/24/MTG1OMISIK1.DTL

Vintage road maps a window on their time
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/24/MTG1OMISIK1.DTL>
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
*...* According to James R. Akerman, a *cartographic* historian at the
Newberry Library in Chicago, Esso handed out some 34.5 million maps in
1965. By 1979, it was fewer than 8 million...

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