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Subject:        FW: Old U.S. Navy hydrographic charts
Date:   Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:49:08 -0700
From:   Kollen, Chris <[log in to unmask]>




Hi:



This is Chris Kollen from the University of Arizona.  There's a retired
faculty member who is looking for older nautical charts from the Navy's
Hydrographic Office from the time period 1939-1945.  We don't keep them,
just the recent ones.  So does anyone have this set for the area of
western Pacific, including Japanese home waters, and southeast Asia and
the dates he's interested in?  He would also need to see the index to
determine what sheets he's interested in.



He knows that he can get them from the Archives in College Park,
Maryland, archives these older nautical charts and that you may visit
them to copy charts.



Thanks for any help you can provide.



Chris



Chris Kollen,  Geography and Sociology Librarian
University of Arizona Library
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ   85721-0055
(520) 621-4869
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Subject: Old U.S. Navy hydrographic charts



Since retiring - more or less - in 1992 I have been active with the
Naval Minewarfare Association as an officer and since 1996 as
historian.  Currently, I am finishing a book on naval mine warfare
during World War II and the Korean War.  (I was a minesweeper sailor in
the latter part of WW II).  I find that our members like to see maps and
portions of nautical charts used in the articles in our quarterly
magazine and therefore want to make good use of them.

I have spent many hours in the Map Library so as to note that older
editions of the nautical charts have been removed - probably many years
ago.  I era I am particularly interested in is from 1939-1955.  I have
copies of the current indexes from NIMA and thus can navigate through
the flat folders downstairs.  My chief areas of interest are the western
Pacific, including Japanese home waters, and southeast Asia.

I understand that National Archives in College Park, Maryland, archives
these older nautical charts and that you may visit them to copy charts.
This would be an expensive trip!  Do know of any library or other source
that might still have these old nautical charts available for
interlibrary loan?  I see one problem in finding a copy of the old index
put out by the Navy's Hydrographic Office so as to designate the charts
of interest.  HO is no longer known by this name.

I met Chris Ziegler at the UA Retirees Luncheon yesterday.  She
confirmed most of my findings about past handling of map materials.

Thank you, Joe Schreiber, Jr., Professor Emeritus Geosciences