A trial version of the Pictures in Print database is available at
http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/pip/searchform1.asp
A joint project between Durham County, Cathedral and University
Libraries funded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership
Programme, PiP has sorted, conserved, organised, boxed, catalogued and
digitised our separate holdings of early maps and topographical prints
of Co Durham (roughly up to the 1860s - pre-OS and photography),
creating the basis of a union catalogue.
Cataloguing is still in progress but now with some 1,600 different
records for 2,500 items and 1,300 images a test version has been
created. It is still in development, and catalogue records are still
being created and checked, but some idea of the system should be
evident.
The project web site is at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Library/asc/pip/
where there will (when I write it) be a full account of the project, and
a permanent link to the database.
Not all the map images are available yet, as it takes ages to piece them
together, but nevertheless you may find something of interest. The
zooming technology requires a browser plug-in, which you may have
trouble installing if you have a tightly controlled PC network.
Any comments will be most helpful - notifications of mispelling,
misattributions and other mistakes will not be taken amiss.
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