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From: "Edward James Redmond" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 6:56:59 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: General inquiry: hand drawn maps
Kris:
Would a rough sketch by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt drawn on White House stationery fit your criterria? The map was purportedly drawn to show the location of the future FDR Library at Hyde Park, NY.
How about a ms. map prepared for -- and transmitted to -- George Washington indicating the defenses pf Princeton, NJ only four days before the Continental Army's Jan 3, 1777 attack on Princeton ?
If either items matches your criteria contact me directly and we can discuss this, and other possibilities, offline.
Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4651
(202) 707-8548
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>>> Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> 06/10/09 2:37 PM >>>
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Subject: General inquiry: hand drawn maps
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:53:49 -0400
From: Kris Harzinski <[log in to unmask]>
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CC: Kris Harzinski <[log in to unmask]>
I'm currently working on a book of maps that will be published by Princeton
Architectural Press and would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
The book is based on my web project, the Hand Drawn Map Association, and
focuses on maps that people draw for one another to provide directions or
tell a story. Most of the maps in the collection are by non-professionals,
but I'm interested in framing the book in the larger context of the human
desire to record the world around us. To that end, I'm looking for some
historical or contemporary maps that are specifically sketched or drawn by
hand - not necessarily well executed manuscript maps - but maps that are
more crude, rough, gestural, etc. I'm specifically interested in maps that
are drawn by well known individuals.
Again, I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
Thanks,
Kris Harzinski
Hand Drawn Map Association
http://www.handmaps.org
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