Army Engineer Reproduction Plant coverage of San Jose, Costa Rica. One of the oldest maps uncovered so far is this 1929 U.S. The collections at each site would thus remain intact, and the cross-country array of depository libraries would always make the maps available to students, faculty and national authorities. If a library no longer wished to receive maps it could be replaced with another institution on the program list, but it had to ship all of the products received to date to the replacement institution. AMS, and later DMA, would send the latest and best maps to each institution on the program list. The map depository program operated under a set of strict rules. DMA continued the map depository program, which by then boasted 250 member institutions. Army Topographic Command in 1968, and it continued as an independent organization until 1972, when it merged into DMA. Living in the long shadow of a nuclear Cold War, the possibility of attack led planners to place critical maps produced by leading government cartographers in multiple locations, for both accessibility and preservation. The Army intended to place the best maps produced by their cartographers and printers at research institutions nationwide, and not only for educational purposes. The libraries once belonged to a map depository program initiated by AMS after World War II. The public inquiry e-mailbox monitored by the NGA Office of Corporate Communications began receiving inquiries over the summer from university libraries around the country. We discovered the maps completely by accident. For the first time, we have original classic maps produced by the Engineer Production Plant, the Army Map Service and the Defense Mapping Agency between 19. Just weeks before preparation of this issue of Pathfinder began, 18,500 maps arrived at the NGA Campus East loading dock to become part of the collection held by our Historical Research Center. We now have original work with which we can visually demonstrate NGA’s deep roots in the cartographic world. We now have a selection of, among other items, captured German World War II maps, briefing maps from Vietnam, extensive maps of Asia and the Pacific islands, and pre-World War II maps of the United States.
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Weir, Ph.D., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency historianĭuring this past summer, sheer chance and modern correspondence - a series of emails - presented NGA’s history staff with an opportunity to get a first-hand glimpse of the past.
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