Hi Bruce,

I was trying to think if there are any such maps for parts of Maine, but other than some maps that show state parks, no. However there is one interesting point to make regarding New England maps. When you look at most “Road Maps of New England”, the lower states: Connecticut, Road Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire are shown on one side of the sheet and Maine is shown on the other side. When Maine is shown with the other New England states then the top third to half of Maine is often shown separate in a little box at a different scale. Both of these are a result of the fact that Maine, though part of the geographic region of New England / “State of New England”, is as large as all the lower states put together. (And yes I have had more than one person thinking that New England is a “State”). 

Best

George

Hi, Bruce,

 

While I am retired now and before I got my three geography degrees, I grew up on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.  We basically had Olympic-Peninsula-only maps because that's all we ever needed unless we were going to Seattle which, even 50 years ago, required a map for anybody's first couple of trips.

 

In graduate school at UW (the one in Seattle), my roommate, for part of that time, was from Michigan's UP (a tiny place called Covington) and, except for summers when her family ran a fishing camp in Idaho, she also usually had partial maps portraying Michigan's UP by itself.  From this small sample of two, I wonder whether people who grew up in geographically limited areas were the main users of geographically limited maps.  I learned from spending two periods of time teaching in Denmark that Greenlanders often only had maps of their particular "valley" or "village".  I'd be curious to learn whether other people who grew up in other geographically limited areas such as islands or isolated mountain valleys are also likely to be familiar with geographically limited maps.

 

virginia hetrick (still wondering what effect my parents' having all those Nat Geo maps that came with their wedding gift subscription to Nat Geo has had on me) 

 

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Date:    Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:57:07 -0400
From:    Bruce Sarjeant <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The 51st State

Speaking of being being away from your regular duties, our campus
historical museum's exhibit has been scanned into a pdf.  From the Center's
director:

With the Beaumier Center closed through at least the end of March, we've
created an on-line version of our current exhibition, "The 51st State?"
Click on this link to download the exhibition as a pdf. It includes all of
the interpretive panels and images of some of the artifacts. Some of the
panels are large, so they will take a few seconds to download. Enjoy and
stay well! https://archives.nmu.edu/beaumier/The51stState.pdf
<https://archives.nmu.edu/beaumier/The51stState.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Ux4YwmxapFta7916THT-rM5-YLBWBI9GJLlLTJxpUaMfIeGFuIO55lM0>


I found that I had to download it to view it properly.

And I would like to query the Maps-L group with a question.  Is anyone
aware of other states or provinces that have an isolated area that is
regularly displayed as a standalone?  Yes, we are an exclave of the main
part of Michigan, but I think I recall from Washington State (where I am
from), maps of just the Olympic Peninsula isolated from the rest of the
state.  Islands, of course, are a common thing to show isolated, but entire
sections of states "hanging", as it were, all by themselves.  Perhaps
peninsulas.  Maybe related to tourism or to old settlement.
Anyway, that's my question to ponder on this Friday and beyond.
--
Bruce Sarjeant
Reference, Documents & Maps Librarian
Lydia Olson Library
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette, MI  49855
(906) 227-1580
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