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Subject:        Re: General inquiry: hand drawn maps
Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:51:25 -0700
From:   Alan O. Allwardt <[log in to unmask]>
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Not drawn by well-known individuals, but concerning a well-known
legend: the Apache Junction Public Library has a link to 62
hand-drawn maps to the Lost Dutchman Mine:

http://www.ajpl.org/aj/superstition/index.htm

and click the "Treasure Maps" link

Happy hunting!

Alan Allwardt
USGS Pacific Science Center


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>Subject:        General inquiry: hand drawn maps
>Date:   Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:53:49 -0400
>From:   Kris Harzinski <[log in to unmask]>
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>CC:     Kris Harzinski <[log in to unmask]>
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>I'm currently working on a book of maps that will be published by Princeton
>Architectural Press and would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
>
>The book is based on my web project, the Hand Drawn Map Association, and
>focuses on maps that people draw for one another to provide directions or
>tell a story. Most of the maps in the collection are by non-professionals,
>but I'm interested in framing the book in the larger context of the human
>desire to record the world around us. To that end, I'm looking for some
>historical or contemporary maps that are specifically sketched or drawn by
>hand - not necessarily well executed manuscript maps - but maps that are
>more crude, rough, gestural, etc. I'm specifically interested in maps that
>are drawn by well known individuals.
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>Again, I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kris Harzinski
>
>Hand Drawn Map Association
>http://www.handmaps.org
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