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I would like to add a few more map indexes that I have not seen listed.  They are as follows:

1.1949 Europe and the Near East; I have both a dark globe and the uncolored globe

2.1950Classical Lands; I have both globes

3. 1950 Africa...; I have both globes

4.  1951 World; I have both globes

5.  1953 Historical Map of US; I have both globes

6. 1954 California; I have both globes

Also for clarification on the 1945 USSR indexes:

rear page blank has a dark globe

with publications the globe is dark

with books the globe is uncoloured

I also have three proofs with notes attached dated 1956; one with publications and an uncoloured globe, one with

books with uncoloured globe and the last with a blank page with dark globe

Also with the 1942 Asia indexes:

Washington in scroll has publications

25 has a blank page and 25 also has publications

Also of note I have three indexes where there is a noticeable difference in the printing within the scroll; one is very dark and muddy and very slightly smaller and the other is very clear and slightly larger.  I feel that this most likely is due to two different printing runs.   Those indexes are 1936 Canada; 1938 Bible lands; 1939 Central Europe and 1940 Europe and Near East.

I also looked in one of my map cases to see what map indexes were present.  This is what I found:

1948 Australia

1949 Top of the World

1950 Classical Lands with uncoloured globe and no banner

1952 Southwest Asia

1955 Southeast Asia

1955 Atlantic Ocean

1956 Alaska

1957 Europe

1961 USSR with no globe

1962 Western Europe with uncoloured globe and a straight banner (empty)

1962 Pacific Ocean with uncoloured globe with nothing in the banner

1962 Canada, Alaska, Greenland with no globe and nothing in the banner

1964 Lands of the Bible Today with no globe and nothing in the banner

Jeff Persons

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Permalink Reply by Jeffry Persons on February 15, 2015 at 10:22am

Hi Tom,

Regarding the original map index for Western Europe (1950) there are 8683 place names, so that makes it a revision.

The Pacific Ocean original map index 1952) has 5958 place names so that would make it a reprint.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Regards, Jeff

Permalink Reply by Jeffry Persons on March 1, 2015 at 7:00pm

Hello Everyone,

I have spent the weekend cleaning and organizing my storage unit and came across some more map indices.  These are a few additions that I would like to make:

1. 1949 Top of the World with no banner and an uncolored globe.

2.  1962 Western Europe no globe 8699 place names

3.  1962 Countries of the Caribbean no globe and no place names  

4.  1962 Canada, Alaska... with an uncolored globe 5607 place names

5.  1963 Mexico and Central America with no globe and 5967 place names

6.  1963 California with no globe and 4186 place names

7.  1966 Western Europe 8769 place names

8.  1967 Map of the US with 3829 place names

9.  1970 West Indies and CA  with 4665 place names

10 1984 World Map

11 1987 Map of the US

12 1962 Classical Lands with an uncolored globe

13  1965 Southeast Asia with no globe

14  1963 Hist. Map of the US with no globe and 3508 name places

15   1964 British Isles with no globe and 4063 name places

16  1965 Pacific Ocean with no globe and 5958 name places

17  1966 Western Europe with 8764 name places

18  1981 World

19  1982 World

20  1984 World

21  1987 US

I hope that I haven't made any duplications.  I think that that is all that I have unless I uncover another container in storage.

Have fun,

Jeff 

Permalink Reply by Jeffry Persons on March 2, 2015 at 9:57am

Hi All,

There is a duplication of the 1984 World and the 1987 US

Sorry about that!

Jeff

Permalink Reply by George Thomas Wilson on March 2, 2015 at 11:47am

Jeff,

Thanks for the additional information.  I think I'll use it to rework my spreadsheet of Map Indices to include columns for duplicate "styles" of the same index (colored/uncolored globes and such).

Tom

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