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  • 1.  a map discovery at NYPL Map Division via NYPL's Digital Collections

    Posted Jun 27, 2020 03:56 PM
    Today at the virtual meeting of MAGIRT's Map Collection Management Discussion Group, I told about a map of the Antietam Battlefield that was recently "discovered" in the collections of The New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division.  By "discovered," of course, I mean the thing that happens in libraries and archives, when a scholar or other expert in a field finds a resource and realizes its special qualities, whether as an artifact or bearer of information, and explains that special importance and historical context to the wider world.  The thing might have been hiding in plain sight, having been cataloged and valued by its institutional stewards, but it took the subject specialist to bring it to light and distinguish it from other somewhat similar resources.

    Anyhow, after I mentioned it at the meeting today, Sierra asked if I would post a link to the map:

    Map of the battlefield of Antietam, 1864, by S. G. Elliott

    And here's a link to the Washington Post article about it:
    If anyone else finds that they have a copy of the map in their collection, that would be interesting to know. 

    Nancy


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    Nancy A. Kandoian
    Librarian

    Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division


    The New York Public Library
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

    476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
    212.930.0586 | x20586

    nypl.org






  • 2.  RE: a map discovery at NYPL Map Division via NYPL's Digital Collections

    Posted Jun 29, 2020 09:35 AM
    Thank you for this sharing, Nancy -- both here and at the meeting!

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    Craig Haggit
    Senior Catalog Librarian, Western History and Genealogy
    Denver Public Library
    He/Him/His
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