moderators note: I'm attaching a word doc and a pdf to this email. If
you don't get it, contact Robert or me and we'll get you a copy.
angie
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Subject: RE: Captured Japaenes Maps (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:59:50 -0600
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Dear Julie Sweetkind-Singer:
As far as I know, neither the AMS nor the Library of Congress sent
out "complete" post war sets of captured Japanese maps. They sent out to
many
libraries the extra copies they had, meaning that some libraries got map
sheets that other libraries didn't get.
Also, there seems to be an unwritten policy to catalog these maps and
captured documents in among the main collection, dispersing them and
preventing them from ever being re-constituted and eventually returned
to the
Japanese or Germans. This was the unspoken policy, for example, of the
Adolph
Hitler personal library held at the Library of Congress, and the captured
Heringen Collection of the US Geological Survey Library. Several other
examples can be given, mostly at other federal libraries.
Attached are a few pages of some notes and quotes that I've come
across about Imperial Japanese maps in researching captured German maps. I
hope you will find them useful.
I am also interested in the "Harris Team" that collected captured
Japanese maps. Do you know anything further about this team?
In my article in the WAML Information Bulletin, I listed some of the
libraries that got these collections. You might find that article
particularly useful.
Give me a call sometime- it seems we have similar interests about
WWII maps.
Lee Hadden
R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS
Geospatial Information Library (Map Library)
Army Geospatial Center
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
(703) 428-9206
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Subject: Captured Japanese WWII Maps: Do you hold a set?
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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
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102
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