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Subject: RE: Re: Rare Maps]]
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:50:48 -0500
From: "Youngblood, Dawn" <[log in to unmask]>
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Carlos--
I define rare as irreplacable in a practical sense. Thus, some maps as
late as WWII, or even later, if not easily re-aquisitioned would be
considered rare in my book.
Dr. Dawn Youngblood,
Ph.D Archaeology
Edwin J. Foscue Map Library
Southern Methodist University
6425 North Ownby Dr.
P.O. Box 750375
Dallas TX 75275-0375
214-768-2285: work
214-768-4236: FAX
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www.smu.edu/cul/maps
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Subject: Re: Rare Maps]]
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Subject: Re: Rare Maps]
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:02:11 -0400
From: "Edward James Redmond" <[log in to unmask]>
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Carlos:
One of the most important things to consider when tasked with the
project of assembling a "rare" map list (as I assume you have been) is
context.
It may be useful to investigate the most important maps already in your
collection instead of what other map librarians may subjectively
determine as "rare".
For example, does your collection include the first map showing
Washington as a state? What is your earliest map of Washington state?
What is the earliest map in your collection actually printed in
Washington state? Actually printed in the United States? ? As a
territory? Do you have a complete set of the earliest USGS topos for
your state? Similar questions may apply for maps of Olympia, etc.
There are a number of reference sources that may assist in identifying
some of the suggestions tossed out above. I would be happy to suggest
specific works if you think this would be helpful.
I am also interested in what suggestions/criteria other map folk (even
the admitted "lurkers" - you know who you are!) apply to their "rare"
maps. Do we all approach this differently? If so, why?
Ed Redmond
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
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Subject: Rare Maps
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:49:59 -0700
From: "Diaz, Carlos" <[log in to unmask]>
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I am hoping the good folks in Maps-L can help me out with something. I
am
trying to identify maps in our collection that might be considered rare.
Is there a list of such items available? What is your circulation
policy?
What conservation methods are needed?
Our collection consists of mostly USGS topographic maps from the PNW
states
and British Columbia, BLM maps, nautical charts, aeronautical chart,
Forest
Service maps, wall maps, highway maps of the 50 states, National
Geographic
maps, soil survey maps, etc.
We do have some old topographic maps in our collection and one of my
favorite atlases is the U.S. Bureau of the Census' Statistical Atlas of
the
11th Census, 1890.
Any help you can give me would be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents Specialist
Government Documents/Maps
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Mailstop L-2300
Olympia, WA 98505
http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/index.html
phone: (360) 867-6251
fax: (360) 866-6790
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