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Brilliant!
How embarrassing that it needed someone in NY to find it in our own catalogue here in Canberra...
Thanks Ian
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:10:06 -0400
From: Ian Fowler <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Fw: Map in A.C Hayter portrait of Caroline Chisholm
I would guess it's Australia in 1839 / J. & C. Walker SDUK. Not sure why
it would be on rods though...Tooley page 144 entry 1145
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230629612/view
-Ian-
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:19 PM Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ooh. This is a fun challenge. See the email below ...
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> Angie Cope
> AGS Library, UW Milwaukee Libraries
> 2311 E. Hartford Avenue
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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> http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/
> M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282
> 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W
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> *From:* [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of
> Brendan Whyte [log in to unmask] [ANZMAPS] <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 27, 2019 6:07:08 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* [ANZMAPS] Map in A.C Hayter portrait of Caroline Chisholm
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> *NLA* posted on social media about Caroline Chisholm on the anniversary
> of her death two days ago with this portrait by A.C Hayter
> <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135961164/view> and we received the question
> below on the post. Does anyone know what information we could provide about
> this map of Australian in the painting?
>
> “Can we know some more about the map on the wall Please ?”
>
> Can anyone identify it or suggest further information?
>
> It doesn’t show Victoria, so must be pre-1851 (yet there is a book on the
> woman’s desk with 1850 on the spine, and a document face up dated 1852).
>
> The N in New South Wales is backwards
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> And Port Phillip was written horizontally then erased, but the trace of it
> can still be seen.
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> And the orange line makes no apparent sense to me…
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>
> Brendan>
> Thank you,
>
> Kathleen Weessies
> Social Sciences Coordinator; Head, Map Library
> Michigan State University
> [log in to unmask]
> 517-884-0849
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