Since 2010, Hammond and its sister companies (including Hagstrom where I worked for) were sold to the Kappa Map Group in Pennaylvania. Their website is https://www.kappamapgroup.com. Hope you will find the proper contact person there. Best of luck, Joshua On Feb 11, 2015 1:01 AM, "Christine Roysdon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I am new to this list and don't know much about maps. > > A friends (also a scholar) is looking to obtain permission to use a some > maps in a publication. Apparently he's down to the last, very frustrating, > few. Does anyone have some advice re either Hammond or Langescheidt? > > Here are the Hammond maps for which he'd like to include digitized > versions in a manuscript: > > (1) Hammond Ambassador World Atlas, 1960, p 55, "Burma, Thailand, > Indochina, and the Federation of Malaya." (G1019_H265 1960 at the Donald > Hamer Map Library, University Park, PA) > > (2) Hammond Standard World Atlas, 1962, p 30, "Burma, Thailand, Indochina, > and the Federation of Malaya." (G1019_H501 1962 at the Donald Hamer Map > Library, University Park, PA) > > (3) “Vietnam and its Neighbors” from Hammond’s two-sided folded sheet, > The Vietnam Conflict Map, 1965. (G8021_S73_1967_H3 at the Donald Hamer > Map Library, University Park, PA) > > (4) “Freedom’s Struggle in Asia” from Hammond’s two-sided folded sheet, > The Vietnam Conflict Map, 1965. (G8021_S73_1967_H3 at the Donald Hamer Map > Library, University Park, PA. > > He has also been trying very hard -- and I also tried -- to find *anyone* > at Langescheidt in their German office who handles permissions? Not > "Kontakt" -- a real person or permissions office? > > Thanks to any of you map experts that can offer any advice on this. It > will be very much appreciated. >