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Article: Michigan maps in the Detroit Evening News, 1873-1900.
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- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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In the late 1970s I worked on the Michigan volume of the Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900. The cartographic items included in that compilation were those issued as separate sheets and atlases or as illustrations in serials and monographs. As this undertaking progressed, I toyed with the idea of adding to the bibliography maps from Michigan newspapers. To determine how rich this source might be, I examined every issue of the Detroit Evening News prior to 1901, noting all Michigan maps that appeared on the pages of this daily publication.
Due to the expiration of the allotted time for the Checklist cataloging project, the results of this ...