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Subject: speaking of AMS maps
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 13:53:10 -0700
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
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I just found in a gift a few sheets of GSGS 4507.

I knew that there were captured German maps that were printed on the
backsides of older Russian maps.  The story that came down to me was
that they were short on papers and it was late in the war.

Two of the sheets are printed on the backs of what appear to be other
GSGS maps, but the sheets were bigger and the metadata parts of the
collars are gone.  The back of the third sheet is a single ink color, in
German, 1:50,000, of Macao Spain.

I had no idea the British were also in the business of printing on the
backs of maps.  Does anyone have a story behind these?

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Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
UC Santa Barbara