-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Got a Wightman globe? Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:31:26 -0400 From: Russell Guy <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] References: <[log in to unmask]> Hi; Our globe is produced by Nutri Systems in MA. It was originally produced by a high school teacher then taken over by someone at Nutri Systems. Cheers Russell At 10:10 AM 6/16/2009, you wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Got a Wightman globe? > Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:14:36 -0700 > Resent-From: Cynthia Jahns <[log in to unmask]> > Resent-To: Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum Maps > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:17:31 -0700 > From: Cynthia Jahns <[log in to unmask]> > To: UC Map Libraries <[log in to unmask]> > CC: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>, Julie Sweetkind-Singer > <[log in to unmask]> > > > > Hello, > > I received the email request below for information about a globe by A. > J. Wightman. Do any of you own one of these globes? If so, would you > have any idea where you bought it, or other information? > I see a similar globe on the OMNI web > site, http://www.omnimap.com/catalog/globes/bathy.htm but it doesn't > tell who the producer of the globe is. > > Thanks - Cynthia Jahns, UC Santa Cruz > > > * "Recently, a friend of a donor inquired about a globe (see attached) > by A. J. Wightman (a relative of his) > - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=GLB0199 - which > may have been purchased by the University in the late 1960s or early > 1970s. Wightman's work is in the Globe Museum in Vienna and the National > Maritime Museum in London." > > > > > Cynthia Jahns > Map Librarian, Univ. of Calif. Santa Cruz > > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > 831-459-3187 ******************************************************************************* Russell Guy [log in to unmask] Omnimap.com http://www.omnimap.com/maps.htm International Map Specialists Tel.: 800-742-2677 (USA only) P.O. Box 2096 Tel.: 336-227-8300 (International) 1004 South Mebane St. Fax: 336-227-3748 Burlington, NC 27216-2096 USA Past President (1996), International Map Trade Association Founding Member, Independent Travel Stores Association ********************************************************************************