Caring for Maps on Paper, Reprint from The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society, Number 54, Fall 2002

2, 20-32, [1] p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Footnotes. Heather Wanser is a senior paper conservator in the Library's Conservation Division. Founded in 1979, The Washington Map Society is a United States based organization supporting map collecting, and the history, science and art of cartography. The Society (or WMS) has about 400 members drawn from throughout the United States with about 50 members. About 60% live outside the Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia radius, confirming the importance of our journal, The Portolan, and the WMS E-newsletter. WMS advances its goals by convening periodic speaker events, organizing field trips, publishing a cartographic journal (The Portolan) three times yearly, and by annually sponsoring the Ristow Prize competition recognizing research achievement in cartographic history. Reprint. Presumed first reprint edition/first printing thus.