Hi Linda,

   At UCLA I have seen a few of these maps that were printed on the verso of some different map.  I think you are correct that there was a shortage of paper, so they used what they could find to print new versions of maps. (Sorry but I don’t recall which maps I saw; it was a few years ago.)

  --Louise

Louise Ratliff

Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian

UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center

2400 Life Sciences Building

Box 957230

Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230

(310)206-5853

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Subject: AMS Maps printed on captured maps?

Hello,

While working on cataloging the collection here at WIU, I found a map of part of the port of Hamburg, Germany printed on what appears to be a German Anschluss map of an area in Scotland. Since most of my experience has been with the AMS topo sets, I am wondering if anyone else has run across this. The German side of the map has a blue X across the map. Because it was so odd, I decided to keep the map.

I am planning to give a talk about the World War II era maps that we have in our collection before the end of the semester. We are not open evenings, so I cannot do a talk closer to D-Day, but they are a resource that I would like to share with our wider community. Of course this unusual map will be included.

Linda Zellmer

P.S. I assume that at the time it was cheaper to use the paper on hand than to ship paper from the U.S. to print maps, thus the double printing.

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Linda Zellmer
Government Information & Data Services Librarian
Liaison to Natural & Physical Sciences & Agriculture
415 Malpass Library
Macomb, IL 61455
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