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Subject:
Web page providing access to scanned 19th-century maps of the Middle East
From:
Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc.
Date:
Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:25:28 +0000
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I can't resist sharing the news that University of Chicago Map Collection staff members have put up a new page of scanned maps, this one focusing on 19th-century maps of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. The URL is

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/middleeast19

. Like the Central Europe page from last fall (at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/centraleurope18), the page differs from earlier Map Collection compilations of scanned maps* in that it provides access to more than 100 sheets (177, I think). But we've gone back to providing Zoomify as well as Luna access; some comments on the Central Europe page suggested that Zoomify was missed.

Many people helped put together this page--see the penultimate paragraph.

Comments are welcome.

Best,

Chris Winters
University of Chicago Library



*For list, see: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/index.html#SCANS

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