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From: "Patrick Morris" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask], "Discussion group for map history" <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:18:27 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Gousha oddity

Gentle Readers,

Attached here is an image of a peculiar Gousha road map we've run across
at the Newberry Library, titled Official Territorial Road Map : Central
United States (Chicago : H.M. Gousha Co., [1939?]), plate no. M-8 at
bottom right.

The base map is printed in blue but overprinted in red with hundreds of
unidentified points in rural areas well off the road network.  These
points are connected with radiating lines to numbers printed in the
margins within circle and square borders, but without a key to these
numbered sites, which are apparently NOT state parks.

Any ideas about what is being located would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time, Pat Morris

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Patrick A. Morris
Map Cataloger and Reference Librarian
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610-7324
312-255-3674
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