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From: "Julie Sweetkind-Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "Karen Wigen" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 7, 2011 6:22:55 PM
Subject: Captured Japanese WWII Maps: Do you hold a set?


Hi, all,

Efforts are underway at Branner Library to catalog, scan and make available our set of Captured Japanese WWII maps that were distributed to libraries in the United States by the Army Map Service after the end of the war. We believe we have about 10-12,000 sheets from China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Manchuria, and Korea (North and South).

Phil Hoehn, when working at UC Berkeley, had their complete set cataloged and these can be found by searching OCLC. We also know of the sets at Clark University and the Library of Congress. I have noted that Central Oklahoma has some (how many?) and the University of Wisconsin (how many?). Anyone else? If you do hold these maps, either cataloged or uncataloged, I'd be interested to know the following.

1. Are they cataloged?
2. About how many do you have? (pieces and sets)
3. Do you know how you got them?
4. Have you scanned them?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Best,

Julie

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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data & Services
Head Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
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Stanford, CA 94305
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