Article Reprints / Offprints (NGS and permissioned) Discussions - National Geographic's Collectors Corner2024-03-29T13:46:47Zhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/groups/group/forum?groupUrl=article-reprints-offprints-ngs-and-permissioned&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBerrien Book Binderytag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2023-12-30:1029239:Topic:2976222023-12-30T20:06:16.472ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p>Berrien Book Bindery</p>
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<p>National Geographic Magazines are notoriously difficult to part with. Even people who don’t want them, don’t want to throw them away. Through the years a number of people interested in a particular topic would save only the issues containing an article related to that topic. To save space, they would have the articles they wanted removed from the magazines and then have them bound, either together in a book, or individually, mimicking article…</p>
<p>Berrien Book Bindery</p>
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<p>National Geographic Magazines are notoriously difficult to part with. Even people who don’t want them, don’t want to throw them away. Through the years a number of people interested in a particular topic would save only the issues containing an article related to that topic. To save space, they would have the articles they wanted removed from the magazines and then have them bound, either together in a book, or individually, mimicking article reprints. I would not be surprised, by the number of Berrien bound articles on Abe Books, that some entrepreneurs figured they could make more money selling several separate articles than one used magazine.</p>
<p>Berrien Book Bindery seems to be the most popular bindery for National Geographic articles. I had resisted buying any of these items for some time, suspecting that they were destructively produced, but I recently pulled the trigger on a set that had been advertised on eBay for years. As suspected, they are original articles lifted from the magazine; the prove being that some contained the last page of the preceding article or the first page of the following article. Article reprints blank those pages.</p>
<p>The set I purchased contains fourteen bound articles, all related to Central Asia. I don’t believe I’ll be purchasing any more of these items, but if I do, I’ll have this <a href="https://ngscollectors.ning.com/photo/albums/berrien-book-bindery" target="_self">Album</a> to put them in.</p>
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<p>Yours in collecting,</p>
<p>Tom Wilson</p> Previously Unknown Article Reprinttag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2023-04-01:1029239:Topic:2877382023-04-01T04:59:46.443ZRichard Kennedyhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/kennedyrt
<p>I have come across what I believe to be a previously unknown article reprint. It is from Volume 2, Number 2 (February 7, 1890). Its title is "A Critical Review of Bering's First Expedition, 1725-30". I have attached a photograph of its cover.</p>
<p>I have come across what I believe to be a previously unknown article reprint. It is from Volume 2, Number 2 (February 7, 1890). Its title is "A Critical Review of Bering's First Expedition, 1725-30". I have attached a photograph of its cover.</p> My Article Reprint Collectiontag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2023-03-16:1029239:Topic:2865952023-03-16T16:15:24.334ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>My Article Reprint Collection</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After completing my <em>National Geographic Magazine</em> collection, I moved on to Indices. First, I collected volume and/or annual indices, and, once I had completed them, I moved on to Map Indices. These have proved much harder than the volume indices, but I have amassed a respectable collection. To keep my collecting…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>My Article Reprint Collection</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After completing my <em>National Geographic Magazine</em> collection, I moved on to Indices. First, I collected volume and/or annual indices, and, once I had completed them, I moved on to Map Indices. These have proved much harder than the volume indices, but I have amassed a respectable collection. To keep my collecting bug satisfied, I decided to start collecting Article Reprints, not as actively as I did with my other collections, only passively, mainly eBay.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In his book, <em>Collectibles of the National Geographic Society</em> (1982, Serendipity Press), Roger E. Nathan lists a large, but admittedly incomplete, number of article reprints dating back to July 1889, “The Rivers and Valleys of Pennsylvania”. He also states that:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“[Article] Reprints were virtually discontinued in September 1977 because of the transferal of printing operations from R. R. Donnelley in Chicago to W. F. Hall Printing Company in Corinth, Mississippi. With the letterpress process at Donnelley, it was possible to produce reprints as a by-product of magazine production, but this procedure was not possible with Hall’s gravure printing. Only two reprints have been produced since the move to Mississippi – the Aluminum article (August 1978 issue) and the entire National Parks issue (July 1979), which was bound separately with a new cover and without advertising for the National Parks Service.”</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Over ten years later, in October 1989, the Society produce another reprint, “La Ruta Maya” that was well known to collectors. Other than this one, well known issues, I had only found one other more recent issue (discussed below).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My article reprint collection now stands at 68, with three being foreign, and one being a third-party reprint in 1961 of the December 1915 article, “Alaska’s New Railway.” The oldest reprint I have is the third one on Nathan’s list – the October 1889 article, “Across Nicaragua with Transit and Machete:”</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998583687?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998583687?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As mentioned above, the newest reprint in my possession is for the January 1991 article, “The Disease Detectives:”</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584252?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584252?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">More recently the Society has started to produce retro article reprints for special occasions – the Apollo articles from December 1969 for the fiftieth anniversary (2019), and the Disney article from August 1963 most recently for the D23 Expo (2022).</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584097?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584097?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My collection spanned more than a century, with 1991 being what seemed to be the end of article reprints – until now. I have just received an article reprint dated November 2022 and titled “A Pacific Rebirth.”</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584696?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10998584696?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hopefully, I will find more “new” article reprints as I casually acquire these collectibles.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As for my collection, I have scanned the covers of all 68 and have placed them in an <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><a href="http://ngscollectors.ning.com/photo/albums/my-article-reprints" target="_self">ALBUM</a></strong></span> for your viewing pleasure. Note: I have included images of two article reprint covers not in my collection. They were sent to me by the late Jeffrey Persons for an article I was writing. All 70 images were added to the album chronologically, but any additions will be tacked on the end.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yours in Collecting,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> A British Variation to an Article Reprinttag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2022-12-05:1029239:Topic:2820502022-12-05T20:14:48.453ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>A British Variation to an Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since Gagarin back in 1961, I have been a Space buff (you could say a Space geek). With the Artimis I mission wrapping up its stay around the Moon, I thought I'd write a little about a recent acquisition I made related to its forebearer. It is easy to see that early in my collecting of <em>National Geographics</em>, some of my favorite issues…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>A British Variation to an Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since Gagarin back in 1961, I have been a Space buff (you could say a Space geek). With the Artimis I mission wrapping up its stay around the Moon, I thought I'd write a little about a recent acquisition I made related to its forebearer. It is easy to see that early in my collecting of <em>National Geographics</em>, some of my favorite issues through the years have been the Space related ones. Once I had assembled my collection, I started several auxiliary collections, one of which being that of Article Reprints. Again, Article Reprints related to Space have a special place in my heart. I even posted a discussion about my Article Reprints about Space <a href="http://ngscollectors.ning.com/group/article-reprints-offprints-ngs-and-permissioned/forum/topics/recurring-themes-in-ngm-article-reprints-part-ii" target="_self">HERE</a>. One of my favorite Reprint is that of the December 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Flight. I do not have one of the originals back in the day, but I did receive one as part of a 50th anniversary package produced by The Society and documented so well by Scott Shier <a href="http://ngscollectors.ning.com/photo/albums/apollo-missions-to-the-moon-press-kit-2019" target="_self">HERE</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The original reprint is documented in Roger E Nathan's book "Collectibles of the National Geographic Society" (1982). Since I do not have a copy from 50 years ago, I can only guess as to its cover. It is probable the same as mine, since it is a cover story, the anniversary issue used the magazine cover as its own. The standard cover for Article Reprints at the time was the classic Globe, Map, and Sextant shown here:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930079?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930079?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Notice the white space in this template. It has room not only for a title, but also the author, the month and year of the original issue, and a descriptive subheading. But, as I said, my cover is the same as the magazine the articles were lifted from:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930501?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930501?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If any collector out there has an original, I would like to ask three questions. The first being: Which cover was used? Also, the anniversary issue does not include the Record which came embedded in the article. Instead, it has the "Sounds of Space" on a USB drive and played on a miniature "old time radio". So, since the older version did not come as part of a kit, I pose question two: Does the older Article Reprint contain the flexible two-sided record? The last query I have relates to the back cover of the original Article Reprint. Article Reprints of the time had a blank back cover, almost without exception. The one included in the 50th anniversary kit has a photo, taken from the Moon's surface which is not part of the original articles in the magazine. So, is the back cover blank, or does it look like this?</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930885?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901930885?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After that long introduction, I now want to discuss my latest addition to my Article Reprint collection, a 50th anniversary Apollo 11 Article Reprint from the UK. I guess I should list this as a foreign item, but I like to think of it as an Article Reprint cover variant. While it uses the same cover in almost all respects, the British version has a different red-on-yellow banner across its top. It reads: "Listen to the Sounds of Space - <a href="http://WWW.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.CO.UK/MOONLANDING">WWW.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.CO.UK/MOONLANDING</a> " instead of the American banner which reads: "Special Recording: "Sounds of the Space Age" (page 750)". That banner directing the reader to the website for the sounds since the record is absent from this version of the Reprint as well. Here is my UK version:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901931671?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901931671?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interestingly, the British version has a different back cover. It has an advertisement with the same photo used on the front as a background, as shown here:</span></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901932268?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10901932268?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyway, that is it for now.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yours in collecting,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> An Interesting Pair of Reprints (It's All Greek to Me)tag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2021-04-10:1029239:Topic:2645502021-04-10T16:02:50.438ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>An Interesting Pair of Reprints (It's All Greek to Me)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While continuing my search for all things <em>Geographic</em>, I stumbled across a couple of items on eBay. They are reprints of older <em>National Geographic Magazines</em> in Greek. One is of the April 1921 issue and was translated and reprinted in 2004, and the second is of the March 1940 issue and was produced in 2003. From the…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>An Interesting Pair of Reprints (It's All Greek to Me)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">While continuing my search for all things <em>Geographic</em>, I stumbled across a couple of items on eBay. They are reprints of older <em>National Geographic Magazines</em> in Greek. One is of the April 1921 issue and was translated and reprinted in 2004, and the second is of the March 1940 issue and was produced in 2003. From the seller's photos, it appears that the text for all articles, including the photo captions, have been translated and that all advertisements have been removed, (the back covers are blank).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Since I had just posted my <a href="http://ngscollectors.ning.com/forum/topics/100-years-ago-april-1921" target="_self">monthly discussion</a> on 100-year-old issues for April 1921, I had to buy the following reprint:</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8779414695?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8779414695?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The second reprint, the one for March 1940, was sold on eBay April 12, 2021:</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8779414262?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8779414262?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yours in Collecting,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> A Back Cover Advertisement on an Article Reprinttag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2020-11-04:1029239:Topic:2195792020-11-04T17:43:56.053ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>A Back Cover Advertisement on an Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The National Geographic Society has a long history of reprinting popular articles from the <em>Geographic</em>. As a rule, these reprints are devoid of advertisements, the back covers are blank. So far, I have only found one exception to this rule: the November 1936 article reprint "Trains of Today and Tomorrow". There is an advertisement on…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>A Back Cover Advertisement on an Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The National Geographic Society has a long history of reprinting popular articles from the <em>Geographic</em>. As a rule, these reprints are devoid of advertisements, the back covers are blank. So far, I have only found one exception to this rule: the November 1936 article reprint "Trains of Today and Tomorrow". There is an advertisement on the back cover of that reprint by the Association of American Railroads:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8123595473?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8123595473?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The ad was specifically made for this reprint. The back cover ad for the original issue is a color photo of a glazed ham. Yum.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> The Magical Worlds of Disneytag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2019-08-29:1029239:Topic:1726102019-08-29T01:37:15.666ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>The Magical Worlds of Walt Disney</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>A Recent Article Reprint eBay Auction</strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3476763448?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3476763448?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This item was auctioned on eBay Wednesday 08/28/19 at 9:00 PM EDT. The seller did their research and set the…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>The Magical Worlds of Walt Disney</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>A Recent Article Reprint eBay Auction</strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3476763448?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3476763448?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This item was auctioned on eBay Wednesday 08/28/19 at 9:00 PM EDT. The seller did their research and set the bidding to begin $40.00. In their description was this:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>National Geographic Article Reprint of "The Magic Worlds of Walt Disney" that appeared in the August 1963 issue. Condition is As New (see scan). Contains 54 pages and size is 6 7/8" x 10". <strong>Not listed in Buxbaum or Nathan! Includes rare letter!</strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I made an early bid but with a few minutes to go someone bid $299.00 (Way out of my league). At the last moment someone else sniped it away for $304.00 (plus $5.00 shipping). Lord knows what their high bid was, but they really wanted it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My congratulations to whoever won this auction!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> A Postdated Article Reprinttag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2019-06-29:1029239:Topic:1710032019-06-29T15:31:08.296ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>A Postdated Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163138358?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163138358?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a reprint of the December 1915 <em>National Geographic</em> article “Alaska’s New Railway”. The article has no byline and includes twenty black-and-white photographs, seven of which are full-page in size.…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>A Postdated Article Reprint</strong></span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163138358?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163138358?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a reprint of the December 1915 <em>National Geographic</em> article “Alaska’s New Railway”. The article has no byline and includes twenty black-and-white photographs, seven of which are full-page in size. While this article is well over one hundred years old, it was reprinted in August, 1961 by the Alaska Publishing Company with permission of the National Geographic Society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The booklet measures 9.5” by 6.5”, slightly smaller than the original. The front and back covers are stiff cardboard with plastic binding.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The article has been scanned and reduced just a bit. One thing about this item that is not standard is that all page numbers have been removed. In all other respects, the article is exactly the same as the original.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the bottom of the last page of the article is an acknowledgement which reads: <em>Our thanks to the</em> National Geographic Society <em>for giving us permission to reprint this article</em>. It is Signed D. J. Smith, General Manager, The Alaska Railroad.</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163143108?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163143108?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The letter received from the Society is included as part of the reprint, presumably to prove authenticity. It is signed by Frederick G. Vosburgh, Vice President and Associate Editor and dated July, 18, 1961. It was written in response to a request by D. J. Smith, General Manager, Alaska Railroad. The red cover of the article reprint, together with the name of the person making the request, bring up memories of Don Smith and his red-covered collectors guide; but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163146191?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3163146191?profile=RESIZE_710x"/></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A black-and-white image of the December 1915 <em>National Geographic Magazine</em> cover is included to fill the page before the article proper.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The article is about the first year of the massive (for the time) federal infrastructure project to build a railroad system in Alaska linking the interior coal, gold, and other mineral fields to a free-water port on the coast. It also is to be use for public transportation for existing and future towns in the territory. While there is no map embedded in this article, it does suggest one reference the February 1914 Alaska map supplement in four colors while reading the article.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> Article Reprint: December 29, 1894tag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2019-06-08:1029239:Topic:1706092019-06-08T16:17:32.137ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Article Reprint: December 29, 1894</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In Roger E. Nathan’s impressive book <em>Collectibles of the National Geographic Society</em> he lists over 350 reprints of articles from the magazine. His research was extensive but, by his own admission, the list is incomplete. For example, he missed the Skylab article from the October 1974 issue. I assumed his list of the older reprints was more…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Article Reprint: December 29, 1894</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In Roger E. Nathan’s impressive book <em>Collectibles of the National Geographic Society</em> he lists over 350 reprints of articles from the magazine. His research was extensive but, by his own admission, the list is incomplete. For example, he missed the Skylab article from the October 1974 issue. I assumed his list of the older reprints was more comprehensive since he relied on the Society’s records in their archives. This assumption was based of the Society’s own statement on the subject.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the Volume VI administrative brochure (Number 9, October 31, 1895) is posted this regarding “Irregular Publications”, i.e. reprints and article reprint:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the interest of exact bibliography, the Society takes cognizance of all publications issued either wholly or partly under its auspices. Each author of a memoir published in the <em>National Geographic Magazine</em> receives 25 copies, and is authorized to order any number of additional copies at a slight advance on the cost of press-work and paper. Contributors to the magazine are authorized to order any number of copies of their contribution at a slight advance on the cost of press-work and paper, provided these separates bear the original pagination and a printed reference to the serial and volume from which they are extracted; such separates are, of course, bibliographically distinct. The <em>Magazine</em> is not copyrighted, and articles may be reprinted freely; a record of such reprints, so far as known, is kept.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The implication of this notice is that they kept a record for any article reprint produced at the behest of the contributor and, as best as they could any other article reprint produced. Of course, my assumption about Nathan documenting all older article reprints was wrong, like so many other. Here is an older article reprint that slipped under Nathan’s radar:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Photo Courtesy of Richard Kennedy</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Note: The publication follows all the rules set out by the Society regarding pagination and references.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The article is entitled “Laws of Temperature Control of the Geographic Distribution of Terrestrial Animals and Plants”. It is from the Volume VI, Number 7 issue of National Geographic, December 29, 1894, pages 229-238. It contains one chart, and is follow by three color maps of the United States and southern Canada on three single-sided Plates (No. 12, 13 & 14). The article is a transcript of an annual address by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Vice-President, National Geographic Society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The tendency of animals and plants to multiply beyond the means of subsistence and to spread over all available areas is well understood. What naturalists wish to know is not how species are dispersed, but how they are checked in their efforts to overrun the earth. Except for oceans, geographic barriers are rare. Another cause must provide this limiting factor. Nearly a century age Humboldt showed that temperature is the most important climatic factors. In the northern hemisphere animals and plants are distributed in circumpolar belts or zones, the boundaries of which follow lines of equal temperature rather than parallels of latitude. They conform with elevation with a particular belt extending further north in the lowlands and pushed further south in the mountainous areas.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Between the pole and the equator there are three primary belts – Boreal, Austral, and Tropical – each of which may be subdivided into minor belts and areas. In the United States the Boreal and Austral regions each have been split into three secondary transcontinental zones. The Boreal are known as the Arctic, Hudsonian, and Canadian. The Austral as the Transition, Upper Austral and Lower Austral.</span><br/> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Several years ago, the author tries to show that the temperature during the period of growth and reproductive activities governed the range of species, more so than the average temperature of the whole year. The period of growth itself varies for different zones. In the topics it is nearly year-round, while in the arctic and very high altitudes it may last only two months. He found it more complex than that. The northern distribution of animals and plants is determined by the total heating throughout that season while the southern distribution of most species is determined by the mean temperature of the hottest part of the year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Humidity is a secondary factor within belts with some species inhabit humid parts of their zone while others find their homes in the arid parts. Humidity is less potent across zone boundaries. Even if a large region of similar humidity spans multiple belts, temperature determines the northern and southern extents of a particular species.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The three, color maps at the end of the article show how the belts are distributed across the country. The first map shows the total quantity of heat during the season of growth. This defines the northern boundaries of the belts. The second map shows the mean temperature of the hottest six consecutive weeks of the year. This defines the southern boundaries of the belt. The third map shows the actual belts across the country using the information from the other two maps. This is the one I displayed, i.e. Plate 14.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Note: the map displayed is copied from my 1964 Reprint of the December 29, 1894 issue. I didn’t want to risk damaging the article reprint.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p> The Mayatag:ngscollectors.ning.com,2019-01-26:1029239:Topic:1676192019-01-26T16:53:18.752ZGeorge Thomas Wilsonhttp://ngscollectors.ning.com/profile/GeorgeThomasWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>The Maya</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Article Reprint from the December 1975 <em>National Geographic</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The cover story for the December 1975 issue of <em>National Geographic</em> (Vol. 148, No. 6) is entitled “The Maya”. It is comprised of four articles about the Mayan people and makes up more than half of the issue.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 36pt;"><strong>The Maya</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Article Reprint from the December 1975 <em>National Geographic</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The cover story for the December 1975 issue of <em>National Geographic</em> (Vol. 148, No. 6) is entitled “The Maya”. It is comprised of four articles about the Mayan people and makes up more than half of the issue.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Cover courtesy of Philip Riviere</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I recently acquired the article reprint for “The Maya”. Since it contains four articles, this reprint has a spine instead of staples. The spine is solid yellow.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Roger Nathan, in his book <em>Collectibles of the National Geographic Society</em> (1982), states that the article reprint for the December 1975 “The Maya” comes “In Spanish and English versions” (Page 30). Not only that, Nathan has a black-and-white image of the Spanish version, “Los Mayas” (Page 26).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Besides “The Maya”, Nathan lists two other article reprints that relate to the Mayan people:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Dzibilchaltum – January 1959</strong>, and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Guatemala, Maya and Modern – November 1974</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition to Nathan’s listed reprints, there is a fourth, related article reprint from the October 1989 issue entitled “La Ruta Maya”. I’m fortunate to have this one as well.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I received the December 1975 reprint, it came with a guide map of the ruins of Tikal. This map is not a National Geographic product. The line in the lower right border reads, “<em>Copyright applied for by the Asociacion Tikal, Guatemala 1969</em>”. Even though it was not a Society product, it is spot on as a supplement for this reprint</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yours in Collecting,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tom Wilson</span></p>