This does not address Andria's question (i.e., "Were these Children's
Bureau maps separately issued?"), but I want to clarify something about the
Serial Set maps Jim referenced. I managed the scanning project from the
UMd. end, so I had a front row seat.

The purpose of that scanning project, which was undertaken when the product
was still owned by LexisNexis, was to upgrade the existing digital Serial
Set's b&w maps, all of which had been scanned from microfiche. When we set
out to ID and locate and extract maps from bound Serial Set (or equivalent
agency-issued) volumes, we aimed specifically for high value targets that
would most effectively replace the low-res b&w scans, i.e., anything that
was color, oversized, and/or graphically detailed that couldn't be easily
read online. So if the low-res, b&w fiche scans were good enough to
communicate the map content, we left 'em alone and did not pull print
copies for scanning.

The b&w maps I see in those digitized CB reports are page maps (not
oversize), and they're not very graphically complicated. Money and time
were in short supply by the time we'd entered the early 20th century (the
project proceeded chronologically through the Serial Set), so if the CB
reports are in the Serial Set (they don't ring a bell, but it's been a
dozen years), it is highly unlikely that we scanned them. That is,
whatever's in the ProQuest product will likely look similar to what you can
see at the URL Andria sent out.

Not that anybody was asking. ;)

mf

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:11 AM James Nealis <
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> Andria,
>
> The student might check the Proquest Congressional site for "serial maps"
> - the U.S. government may have published reports about this topic back in
> the 1920s.  Maryland has many of the original maps that were scanned by
> Proquest several years ago, though I don't have access to them at this time
> due to the pandemic.
> But the on-line map copies may be useful to her.
>
> Jim Nealis
> University of Maryland McKeldin Library
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andria Olson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 2:44 pm
> Subject: 1920s Public Health maps
>
> Hello all!
>
> I have a student looking for maps pertaining to children's public health
> in the 1920s. She has found this resource:
> https://www.mchlibrary.org/history/chbu/21831.php in which several
> reports contain maps of interest to her. Is anyone familiar with whether
> these were ever published as stand-alone maps? Or if there are similar
> stand-alone maps available for this time period?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Take care,
> Andria
>
> *Andria Olson*
> Map Librarian
> Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
> Stanford University
> 397 Panama Mall, 2nd Floor, Mezzanine
> Stanford, CA 94305
> 650-725-1103
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>


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