Alice
Our set of SMS contains indexes to 1, 1-5 (cumulative),7 and 8. Any use to
you?
Could these be lurking in your bound vols. in some unusual position?
Moira Courtman
University of London Library
At 12:00 PM 11/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
> 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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