-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: USCGS 1860 slave map Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:13:34 -0500 From: Mary Scott <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> No problem - I have Acrobat Pro 8 Mary Scott, in cold Ohio At 09:04 AM 12/14/2010, you wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: USCGS 1860 slave map >Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:53:15 -0800 >From: Virginia R Hetrick PhD <[log in to unmask]> >To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> > >Has anybody successfully downloaded and opened the 29+MB file of the >full map from the NYT? I'm curious to know before I start complaining >as my Acrobat Pro is fully patched to the most current level of v.9. > >Thanks for any light anybody is able to shed. > >------------------------------------------------------------- >Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California >Email: [log in to unmask] >"There is always hope." >My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif >There's no place like: 34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58'5.36" >if you can't be at: 48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2" >------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:28:18 -0600 >>From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED) >> >>-------- Original Message -------- >>Subject: Visualizing Slavery (UNCLASSIFIED) >>Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:39:49 -0600 >>From: Hadden, Robert L AGC <[log in to unmask]> >>To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> >> >> >>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED >>Caveats: NONE >> >> There is an interesting article in the NY Times about a map on >>slavery done in 1860, "Visualizing Slavery," by SUSAN SCHULTEN, printed on >>December 9, 2010, on the Opinion page. >> "The 1860 Census was the last time the federal government took a >>count of the South's vast slave population. Several months later, the United >>States Coast Survey-arguably the most important scientific agency in the >>nation at the time-issued two maps of slavery that drew on the Census data, >>the first of Virginia and the second of Southern states as a whole. Though >>many Americans knew that dependence on slave labor varied throughout the >>South, these maps uniquely captured the complexity of the institution and >>struck a chord with a public hungry for information about the rebellion. >> The map uses what was then a new technique in statistical >>cartography: Each county not only displays its slave population numerically, >>but is shaded (the darker the shading, the higher the number of slaves) to >>visualize the concentration of slavery across the region. The counties along >>the Mississippi River and in coastal South Carolina are almost black, while >>Kentucky and the Appalachians are nearly white." >> Read more about it at: >>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/ >> >>Lee Hadden >> >>R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS >>Geospatial Information Library (Map Library) >>Army Geospatial Center >>7701 Telegraph Road >>Alexandria, VA 22315 >>(703) 428-9206 >>[log in to unmask] >> >> >> >>Classification: UNCLASSIFIED >>Caveats: NONE > > >Content-Type: text/plain; > name="CANIT-VOTING-LINKS-1127947261-eed77115af09.txt" >Content-Disposition: inline; > filename="CANIT-VOTING-LINKS-1127947261-eed77115af09.txt" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) > > >-- >BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS >------------------------------------------------------ > >Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 1127947261) is spam: >Spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?i=1127947261&m=eed77115af09&c=s >Not spam: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?i=1127947261&m=eed77115af09&c=n >Forget vote: https://antispam.osu.edu/b.php?i=1127947261&m=eed77115af09&c=f >------------------------------------------------------ >END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ************************************************************************** Mary Woods Scott phone: 614-292-6152 Geology, Geography and Map Librarian Orton Memorial Library of Geology e-mail [log in to unmask] 180 Orton Hall 155 S. Oval Mall The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210 **************************************************************************