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Subject: Mrs. Bahn's armoured map cases
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:56:08 -0700
From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


I can't speak to the material the map cases were made from, but I do
recall not being able to lift a single without any maps in it to move
it from one case to another because the actual case had been damaged
somehow.  This was about 1963-4 during the summer project periods (I
was present for both years).  I couldn't even lift the draw if it were
placed on its back and I could use the handles to do the lifting.

I'm more than a little bit certain that these were way heavier than
the new map cases we got towards the end of the time I worked in the
Map Division.  About five years later when I went to UW to work on my
Ph.D., I was regularly moving 50lb. cases of computer cards without
difficulty.

I hope this helps somehow.

virginia
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