-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online? Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:26:52 -1000 (HST) From: <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] A genealogical website, "USGenNet.org", has loaded the 1895 edition. The URL is <http://www.livgenmi.com/1895>. It inlcudes individual maps of each county and the place name index. Riley Moffat, Head of Reference Brigham Young University - Hawaii Library 55-220 Kulanui Street #1966 Laie, Hawaii 96762 [log in to unmask] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:15:56 -0600 >From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: : Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online? >To: [log in to unmask] > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online? >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:09:26 GMT >From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] > >The David Rumsey Collection has online: > >Rand, McNally & Co.'s Business Atlas. 1897. Rumsey Pub List No: 4520.000. > >http://www.davidrumsey.com/InsightRedirector/InsightRedirector.asp?cmd=start&cid=RUMSEY-8-NA&iia=0&ig=David%20Rumsey%20Collection&isl=0&gwisp=0%7CPub_List_No%7CPub%20List%20No%7C1%7C4520.000%7C2&gwia=3&gc=0 > >These two registries were established only recently. A better place to >search for online maps and atlases (at this point in time) is WorldCat >-- which should be available through your local public library. A >simplified version of that database is freely available on the web at >http://www.worldcat.org > >Another good source is Infomine: >http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=maps > > >Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian >San Francisco -- [log in to unmask] >----------------------------------- >Contractor for David Rumsey Collection: >http://www.davidrumsey.com > >-- Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Historic Rand McNally Commercial Atlases online? >Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:01:02 -0600 >From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]> >To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum ><[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> > > >Have any (out of copyright) Rand McNally Commercial Atlases been >digitized and made available for viewing or download? > >The WAML registry has only 47 entries so far, nearly all from the >David Rumsey Collection. I was unable to get ANY query of the ALA >MAGERT Scanning Registry to return anything other than 0 results.