Awesome old map site

Hi I read where he was donating his map collection to Stanford, but it sounds like he will keep the online maps available for everyone. I have always been impressed at what a sharing and generous person he was. He has an awesome collection.

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Stanford Report, February 4, 2009
Maps of Americas past
San Francisco collector donates 150,000 maps to Stanford

BY ADAM GORLICK

. . .  David Rumseys maps?all 150,000 of them?have taken on a life and purpose of their own. After three decades of collecting maps of the Americas, most of which were drawn between 1700 and 1925, the retired San Francisco real estate developer is posting much of his collection online and donating his original pieces and their digitized images to Stanford. . . . . .


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Thank you for sharing! I've downloaded a bunch and will review all with great interest.
Aquanut

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