Yes, we too have a SMS set, bound together in "book" format. [Not
good, but reflective of the library philosophy of long-ago that maps
should be made to appear as much as possible like books, and sit
neatly on a shelf somewhere.]
I have wished for years some kind soul would index it, so that the
maps included were not lost to view. And so we would know what we have
and don't have... These fugitives deserve better access. They are
really quite special artifacts as they were produced while WWII action
was going on, and reflect the cartographic urgency of the era.
Alice Hudson
Map Division, NYPL
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Subject: RE: Serial Map Service
Author: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date: 11/03/1999 4:31 PM
Peter
To join in the 'Yes - we've got one too!' responses: Yes - we've got one
too! (but incomplete in some map parts as well as the accompanying textual
descriptive matter, which latter you do not mention). I have spoken today
with Bill Willett (ex-chief cartographic editor of George Philip), whom I
know was interested in this series a few years ago - but not to the extent
of having written up and/or published anything. Maybe a search of the
Library of Congress's Geography and Map Division's multi-volume
'Bibliography of the History of Cartography' (and its 2-vol. supplement)
would turn up something beyond the brief mention the SMS gets in Ken 's 'GJ'
citation?
Francis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 October 1999 19:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Serial Map Service
>
> The MOD Map Library has recently been sent a complete set of the Serial
> Map
> Service.
>
> They started in September 1939 and continued until March 1948,
> concentrating
> at first on War related mapping and topics and then moving on to post-war
> reconstruction. The early maps were produced by George Philip and then for
> a
> short while by John Bartholomew and W&AK Johnson before being produced
> in-house from mid-1941 onwards.
>
> Does anyone know any more of the history behind these publications? Are
> they
> common as a complete set or do we have a rarity?
>
> Peter Jones
> AD Geo Libraries
> Military Survey
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