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Subject: First U.S. map purchased for record price (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:01:12 -0600
From: Hadden, Robert L AGC <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

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        "First U.S. map purchased for record price." By Jacqueline Trescott,
Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, January 30, 2011; 10:48 PM.
        The first map of the United States, created in 1784, has been
purchased for the record price of $1.8 million by Washington philanthropist
David M. Rubenstein, who is lending it to the Library of Congress.
        The Abel Buell map, named after the Connecticut cartographer who
created it, has been a missing link in the library's vast collection of
maps.
See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/30/AR2011013003337.html?hpid=sec-artsliving



R. Lee Hadden, BA, BS, MLS
Geospatial Information Library (Map Library)
Army Geospatial Center
7701 Telegraph Road
Alexandria, VA 22315
(703) 428-9206
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