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City unveils catalog of 1,800 historic maps after state grant, opens public access by appointment
Summary
City records management staff and interns cataloged roughly 1,800 historic maps into a new collection-management system with help from a South Carolina Historical Records Advisory Board grant; the collection is now searchable online and available to researchers by appointment.
City of Charleston staff on Sept. 9 presented the results of a cataloging project that made roughly 1,800 archival maps, plats and engineering drawings searchable and publicly accessible for the first time.
Records management staff said the work was funded by a South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board grant that paid for a six-month project archivist and a collection-management program. “The grant enabled us to acquire a collection management program to hire a project archivist for…
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