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
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Original Message:
Sent: Jun 27, 2020 03:56 PM
From: Nancy Kandoian
Subject: a map discovery at NYPL Map Division via NYPL's Digital Collections
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:
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
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