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Subject:        764 new maps added to Rumsey Online Collection
Date:   Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:23:01 -0400
From:   David Rumsey <[log in to unmask]>
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The following are highlights from 764 new maps and images added April 12,
2010, to the David Rumsey Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com.
Included are John Cary's 1790 Survey of the High Roads From London - an
early use of strip road maps, the Atlas Classique De La Geographie - an 1839
teaching atlas by C.V. Monin, and Rand McNally's monumental 1924 Commercial
Atlas Of America, with some of the most detailed early highway maps of the
U.S. along with extensive railroad coverage at a time when the new highway
system was beginning to challenge railroads as the most important
transportation network in America.  Also included  are over 240 separate
wall maps, case maps, pocket maps, or charts which are distinguished by
their large physical size (often over 8 feet in the long dimension),
requiring special photographic and software processes to create accurate
digital images, resulting in very large digital files. Highlights of this
group of maps include Rand McNally's massive thirteen sheet Shippers'
Railroad Map of the United States 1891 (12x20 feet, over 10GB file size),
nine issues of Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States
from 1834 to 1846, Joseph Scheda's 20 sheet richly detailed map of the
Austrian Empire in Central Europe in 1856 (5GB file size), and more. The
entire list of new maps and atlases may be explored at
http://www.davidrumsey.com/blog/2010/4/12/april-12-2010-764-new-maps-added

The online map collection now includes over 22,000 maps and images.

David Rumsey
David Rumsey Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com