From: Fry, Michael <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2020 11:21 am
Subject: Re: 1920s Public Health maps
This does not address Andria's question (i.e., "Were these
Children's Bureau
maps separately issued?"), but I want to clarify something about the Serial Set maps Jim referenced. I managed the scanning project from the UMd. end, so I had a front row seat.
The purpose of that scanning project, which was undertaken when the product was still owned by LexisNexis, was to upgrade the existing digital Serial Set's b&w maps, all of which had been scanned from microfiche. When we set out to ID and locate and extract maps from bound Serial Set (or equivalent agency-issued) volumes, we aimed specifically for
high value targets that would most effectively replace the low-res b&w scans, i.e., anything that was color, oversized, and/or graphically detailed that couldn't be easily read online. So if the low-res, b&w fiche scans were good enough to communicate the map content, we left 'em alone and did not pull print copies for scanning.
The b&w maps I see in those digitized CB reports are page maps (not oversize), and they're not very graphically complicated. Money and time were in short supply by the time we'd entered the early 20th century (the project proceeded chronologically through the Serial Set), so
if the CB reports are in the Serial Set (they don't ring a bell, but it's been a dozen years), it is highly unlikely that we scanned them. That is, whatever's in the ProQuest product will likely look similar to what you can see at the URL Andria sent out.
Not that anybody was asking. ;)
mf
Andria,
The student might check the Proquest Congressional site for "serial maps" - the U.S. government may have published reports about this topic back in the 1920s. Maryland has many of the original maps that were scanned by Proquest several years ago, though I don't have access to them at this time due to the pandemic.But the on-line map copies may be useful to her.
Jim NealisUniversity of Maryland McKeldin Library
-----Original Message-----
From: Andria Olson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 2:44 pm
Subject: 1920s Public Health maps
Hello all!
I have a student looking for maps pertaining to children's public health in the 1920s. She has found this resource: https://www.mchlibrary.org/history/chbu/21831.php in which several reports contain maps of interest to her. Is anyone familiar with whether these were ever published as stand-alone maps? Or if there are similar stand-alone maps available for this time period?
Thank you very much!
Take care,Andria
Andria OlsonMap Librarian
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Michael Fry
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