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All, One or another of the Smithsonian's museums (American History, Natural History, American Art?) would seem like a natural place to preserve such a national treasure, but their record is not good - the Babson Relief Model of the United States (see entry from GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA TIMELINE below) was offered to them and they rejected it, astoundingly, saying simply that they had no geography collection! It was of such a size that it could have performed the important function of welcoming cum orienting visitors in any of several entrance halls. "1940 - The Great Relief Model, the largest raised-relief or three-dimensional terrain model of the United States (conterminous states) ever produced, is installed at Babson College in Wellsley, Massachusetts. The Great Relief Model-at the scale of about 1:250,000 and measuring 65 feet east-west and 45 feet north-south-is constructed under the direction of Wallace W. Atwood (1872-1949), geographer and president of Clark University. It remains on display at Babson College for public viewing and is regularly visited by school children until it is demolished in 1997. [Wallace W. Atwood, Jr. The Giant Relief Model of the United States. Journal of Geography 40 (May 1941): 169-172.]" Who cares enough about California as a geographic entity? Safe journey, D.C.D. Donald C. Dahmann, Ph.D. Geographer At Hollin Hills 1914 Martha's Road Alexandria, Virginia 22307 (703-765-3584) At Scientists' Cliffs 2130 Bluebell Road Port Republic, Maryland 20676 --- On Wed, 10/6/10, George Carhart <[email protected]> wrote: From: George Carhart <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MapHist] Fw: What would you do with a 70 ton map? To: "Discussion group for map history" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 11:43 AM This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + The only way to save this map may lay in not attempting to place it as a whole in one place but to place it with a number of institutions throughout California, so lessening the cost and space needed to preserve it. George Carhart -----Original Message----- >From: Christina Dando <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 6, 2010 11:00 AM >To: Discussion group for map history <[email protected]> >Subject: [MapHist] Fw: What would you do with a 70 ton map? > >This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the >whole list) >o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + > >Any ideas for saving what may be the world's largest map?? > >Chris > >Christina Dando >Associate Professor >Graduate Studies Coordinator >Department of Geography and Geology >271 Durham Science Center >University of Nebraska at Omaha >Omaha NE 68182-0199 >[email protected] >(402)554-3134 >----- Forwarded by Christina Dando/FACSTAFF/UNO/UNEBR on 10/06/2010 09:59 >AM ----- > >From: >Joseph Kerski <[email protected]> >To: >[email protected] >Date: >10/05/2010 09:56 PM >Subject: >What would you do with a 70 ton map? >Sent by: >Geography Education List <[email protected]> > > > >Folks: > >Our colleague Matt Rosenberg (mrgeog) tweeted about this and I just had to >share it with all of you: > >Weighs 70 tons! No takers for this giant map: > >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/02/BAB41FI4PD.DTL > > >Joseph Kerski >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D >Education Manager and Geographer >Esri - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. >1 International Court >Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA >E: [email protected] >V: 303-449-7779 x 8237 >http://edcommunity.esri.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Please do not print this unless you really need to. > > >_______________________________________________ >MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography >hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. >The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of >the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of >Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for >the views of the author. >List Information: http://www.maphist.nl > >Maphist mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist George S. Carhart _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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