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Subject:        Thanks re: Help with Rio Grande Map ca. 1915
Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:31:25 -0600 (MDT)
From:   Laurence Creider <[log in to unmask]>
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I want to thank everyone who replied to the message about a map for the
upper Rio Grande ca. 1915.  As I expected, you've been very helpful, and
the patron is very enthusiastic about what we've located.

Larry Creider

Laurence S. Creider
Special Collections Librarian
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM  88003
Work: 575-646-7227
Fax: 575-646-7477
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Maps-L Moderator for Laurence S. Creider wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Help with Rio Grande Map ca. 1915
> Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:28:32 -0600 (MDT)
> From:   Laurence S. Creider <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> A patron is co-teaching a course combining an engineering and artistic
> perspectives on the Rio Grande in New Mexico.  We found a 1:63,360 scale
> map of 1914: Map of Mesilla Valley, showing various known river channels.
> [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Reclamation Service, Rio Grande Project, New
> Mexico-Texas, 1914.  She is very happy with this map, so happy that she
> would now like a similar scaled map for at least some of the Rio Grande
> above what is now the Elephant Butte reservoir.  She is particularly
> interested in following the river's course.
> So far, I have not been able to locate anything in our holdings or online.
> Can anyone make some suggestions?  I've not been able to find much in
> Perry-Casteneda online library or the David Rumsey collection, but that
> may be unfamiliarity with how to search them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laurence S. Creider
> Special Collections Librarian
> New Mexico State University
> Las Cruces, NM  88003
> Work: 575-646-7227
> Fax: 575-646-7477
> [log in to unmask]
>