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Subject: RE: Road Map Collection comes to Stanford
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:28:47 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
I can add on to Paige's comments. One of my early fascinations with
maps came from riding in our family car (also a Rambler). I always made
a point of asking for highway maps at the service stations when we would
stop for gasoline. I still try to collect state ones at the visitor
information centers on the Interstate highways. But Texaco, Gulf, Esso,
Sunoco, Shell, and other companies would contract with Gousha or Rand
McNally or other producers to distribute maps for free. Free maps, to
this elementary student were wonderful things, to follow the route, plan
a new route, or just to imagine routes one might take. Follow a river,
climb a mountain, cross the prairies, conjure with the old names, go to
parks, hit the big cities (inset and ancillary maps were great, too!),
go to Disneyland.
Ken
Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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Subject: Re: Road Map Collection comes to Stanford
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Subject: Re: [Waml] Road Map Collection comes to Stanford
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:45:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paige G Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
CC: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Fantastic Julie! Congrats! I just read the article, brought back a LOT
of memories of my own family making cross-country or local trips in the
old Rambler station wagon (being an Army brat that's where I got my own
sense of wonderment of place).
Paige
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*From: *"Julie Sweetkind-Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
*To: *"Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship"
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*Sent: *Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:24:35 PM
*Subject: *[Waml] Road Map Collection comes to Stanford
Hi, all,
We've taken in a new map collection here at Stanford, the Robert C.
Berlo Road and Street Map Collection. You can read more about it here.
*http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/march/road-map-collection-032112.html
*Best,
Julie
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data &
Services Head Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map
Collections Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102
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