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Subject: RE: A map of a different color...
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:16:19 +0000
From: Farrington,Jennifer J <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks to all of you who have responded. I have passed your information
on to the patron and he was very appreciative.

Jennifer
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Subject: Re: A map of a different color...
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:59 -0500
From: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
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It means the red and yellow inks have faded. :-)

Nat Case
INCase, LLC
Minneapolis, MN

On 5/20/13 3:55 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> Two jpegs attached. Contact Jennifer if you have difficulty viewing them.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: A map of a different color...
> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 20:19:50 +0000
> From: Farrington,Jennifer J <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>
> A patron has asked what the blue color (see" BlueVersion" attachment)
> means in his version of this map:
>
> Author, etc.:                American Map Corporation
> Title:                       United States with highways
>                                     American Map Corporation.
> Scale:                       Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000] (W 126°--W 66°/N
> 50°--N 24°).
> Published:                   [New York] : American Map Corporation,
> c1986.
> Description:                 1 map : col., plastic coated ; 82 x 121 cm.
> Alternate title:              Colorprint United States with highways.
> Notes:                        Includes insets of Alaska, Hawaii, and 14
> major metropolitan areas.
>                                      At head of title: Colorprint.
>                                      "Map No. 9578."
> Subjects, general:         Roads -- United States -- Maps
>                                       United States -- Maps
> Subjects,geog(maps):   Roads -- United States -- 1986 -- 1:4,000,000
> -- FU
>                                      United States -- 1986 --
> 1:4,000,000 -- FU
>                                      United States -- Roads -- 1986 --
> 1:4,000,000 -- FU
> Format:                               Map
> OCLC:                           15307837
>
>
> The map in our collection is colored similarly to the "ColorVersion"
> example (this is an example to show coloring only, and is not the map in
> question). The map I have in hand and the patron's map both have a 1986
> copyright and have "Map No. 9578" in the lower right-hand corner. They
> appear to be the same in most every way except color. Any ideas on what
> the blue represents in my patron's map?
>
> Thank you,
> Jennifer Farrington
> Senior Archivist
> Map & Imagery Library
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-2825
>
>
>