Hello and happy Friday!
I have been given several folders of maps that our cartographic specialist
said were taken from atlases. No information about the atlases was given, so each one has been an exercise in sleuthing. One particular map has me at my wit’s end. It has no title, no statement of responsibility, and no publisher’s information. No date,
of course.
I’ve used Google Lens to search images based on a photograph I took of the map, with no luck. I’ve browsed through multiple atlas pages on the David Rumsey website, also to no avail.
I’ve searched on the placenames listed in the legend, both in WorldCat and Google, also with no luck.
I’m wondering if anybody can help me identify this map or at least suggest a time frame for the publication date. I’ve resigned myself to creating a catalog record with a cataloger-created
title and a long description, but I’d love to know where this came from and when. I am a general cataloger with training in cataloging pre-20th century maps, but I am not an expert in maps.
I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to attach the image, so here’s a description. The map is a circle depicting the eastern hemisphere with relief shown pictorially. It shows Europe
to the north, including “Thule”, Scandinavia, and Novaya Zemlya. It shows the entire African continent, which extends to the western edge of the circle, and into China on the east, just east of Hainan Island, which is depicted as a peninsula. A land mass
is shown just south of Vietnam, but it is not labeled. Australia is not shown.
The only text outside the map is North, East, South, and West, plus a legend that identifies places labeled with numbers on the map. The place names are:
I’m going to try to attach the image, but I imagine it will get stripped off by the listserv software. I will be more than happy to email it off-list!
Best regards,
Karen
Karen D. Miller
Monographic Cataloger/Metadata Specialist
Northwestern University Libraries
Northwestern University
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
www.library.northwestern.edu
874.467.3462
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On Behalf Of Ross, Heather
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University of Oregon has this great map that we printed.
Map Specialist
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Thanks Everyone for these G Cutter resources!!
-Greg
Gregory H. March
Map & Government Information Librarian
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee
Hodges Library
Knoxville, TN 37996
865-974-3878
Research Guides – Anthropology,
Earth & Planetary Sciences,
Geography,
Maps,
Government
Tennessee
Committee on Geographic Names
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All,
Hope this will be useful for some of you out there. Here is a poster I created last year that I have up in my map collection. It’s a cross reference of atlas
and map call numbers by continent and then by country. Good for quick browsing of specific countries or areas in the collection.
John A. Olson
Government and Geo-Information Librarian
Syracuse University Libraries
T 315.443.4818
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315.443.9510
Geography,
Earth Sciences, Government
Information,
Maps,
GIS
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358 E.S. Bird Library, 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 2:59 PM
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Hi all,
I need to find a generalized version of the list of G cutters for maps. I know LoC keeps the master list here:
I am looking for something more general--maybe with just the list of countries & US States. I do not want to download the 3,000+ schedule from LoC & try to edit it down.
Many thanks in advance,
Christopher J.J. Thiry
Map & GIS Librarian
Academic Outreach Coordinator
Colorado School of Mines
Arthur Lakes Library
1400 Illinois
Golden, CO 80401
p. 303-273-3697
f. 303-273-3199
Shipping address:
Colorado School of Mines
Christopher J.J. Thiry
Arthur Lakes Library
1301 19th Street
Golden, CO 80401