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Subject:        Polish maps, esp. Warsaw, 1863-1939
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:58:22 +0000
From:   Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Maps-L:

Our Slavic Studies librarian is helping a professor here at Duke who is
working on [I'll quote the librarian] "a new project that she calls it
'Visualizing Warsaw': an annotated multi-layered map of historical
Warsaw from 1863 to the present."

She asked where "she might have the best luck finding and scanning good
city maps of Warsaw from the interwar period and the last half of the
nineteenth century. Presumably, she means US repositories."

"I've done a bit of digging on published sources and discovered that,
not surprisingly, the best collections are in Poland. The only US
repository that listed its Polish map holdings was The Polish Museum of
America, in Chicago."

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I've suggested the possibilities of guidebooks (Baedeker, etc.) and
helped with some possible subject headings for maps and guides. We don't
seem to have anything quite right in our collection (maps or
guidebooks), but perhaps OCLC will lead somewhere. MAGIRT's 2006 /Guide
to US Map Resources/ indicates strengths in Polish maps at UMich/Ann
Arbor and at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Digitized historical maps online generally seem to be from an older time
period than the professor needs.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

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Mark A. Thomas, GIS, Map, & Federal Documents Librarian

Subject Librarian for Economics, Geology and Geography

233C Perkins Library / 919-660-5853 / [log in to unmask]
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