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Subject: Re: Scale statement on reduced facsimile]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:46:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: [log in to unmask] (Velma Parker)

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I would give the scale of the map as it is now, that is the reduced
scale
which you obtained by measuring the bar scale.  Information about the
original scale should go in note.
Good luck.

Velma Parker

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>Subject: Scale statement on reduced facsimile
>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:16:44 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Laurence Creider <[log in to unmask]>
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>        I am cataloging a map issued by the World War I-era U.S. War Dept.
>Construction Division of the Army: [Map] showing locations of camps,
>army
>posts, coast defenses, quartermaster & ordnance depots, hospitals,
>aviation fields, etc. : b April 1, 1919 / c compiled by the Engineering
>Branch of the Construction Division of the Army.  The map was issued
>with
>the Dec. 1978 issue of Headquarters Heliogram, the journal of the
>Council
>on Abandoned Military Posts.  The map contains a scale, along with a
>statement "70 miles to 1 inch." or ca. 1:4,435,200. However, at the foot
>of the map is the statement: "38% reduction from National Archives RG
>77,
>WDMC US 320.3."  Measuring the current scale gives something like 110 or
>120 miles to the inch.
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>        How do I record the scale statement?  Just the original?  The
>original with a correction, "Scale not determinable?"  I'm apologize if
>this is an elementary question; I'm still new at cataloging maps. Thanks
>for any insights you can give.
>        Larry Creider
>
>Laurence S. Creider
>Head, General Cataloging Unit
>New Mexico State University
>Las Cruces, NM  88003
>Work: 505-646-4707
>Fax: 505-646-7477
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