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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: TOWN division visual guide
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005
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Nat, et. al.,

To see these townships laid out neatly, just take a look at an older Rand
McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide, say from the 1940s or so,
especially if your research is genealogical or historical in nature. The
maps are quite clear. Township names are sans serif I believe, and
diagonal? [maybe not] on the page. Anyway, take a look. County outlines
tend to be fairly clear, bolder than anything else, and the maps are
relatively clean, as they only have rrs, no roads.  More recent CA&M
atlases have reduced scale and "different" cartography, so not so useful
for several reasons, but especially for townships, many of which have been
demapped or dissolved politically in recent years.

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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New York, NY 10018-2788

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