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Subject:        Map description
Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:30:47 -0500
From:   Phyllis Von Arb <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi.  I'm an MLIS student doing Fieldwork in a Special Collection Center,
and have been tasked with organizing a collection of mostly old maps of
the area.  There are all kinds of maps, many acquired from the City
Clerk's office and so forth.  I'm trying to figure out what are the
appropriate terms to use to describe these different maps.  There's a
little bit of everything, from old maps that appear to have been drawn
in ink and reproduced somehow (a variety of techniques appear to have
been used), to blueprints, to old road maps in color.  Without
completing a doctorate just on this topic (!) is there any general
guidance you can suggest that would help me to describe these things?
Thank you!

Phyllis Von Arb
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Davenport, Iowa