Map Conservation

NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
edited January 2007 in Internet & Media
Sometimes I get asked to do oddities here at work.

I was working on a special project where I had to preserve the integrity of a map of St. Paul's first missionary exploits. Unfortunately, a portion of a map was missing in the middle (About 1/5th of the map), as were the steps he took--denoted by red lines. I was able to save it, thought it might prove interesting.

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Nice work. I had to do a similar thing for a map of Lapeer County, Michigan from 1873. It was much easier than yours, I'm sure, since it was a woodblock print - black and white lines only.
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Redrawing the lines was the biggest pain aside from alignment.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    I wonder if that publisher has the original?
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    csimon wrote:
    I wonder if that publisher has the original?

    The book has been out of print for 50 or so years, the library is really underfunded, so we can't buy originals like that from the printer/publisher themselves. Usually, we try to find another copy of the book through the InterLibrary Loan system, and make a replica of that copy. For this one there wasn't one though.
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