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Subject: Mapping America exhibit at SF airport
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:59:53 GMT
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An exhibit entitled “Mapping America” has opened at the San Francisco
Airport Museum featuring the David Rumsey Map Collection.  The exhibit
also employs digital screens with images of the exhibition maps taken
from the Rumsey online Map collection at www.davidrumsey.com.  The show
provides a unique look at America's historical evolution through a
selection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth -century maps.

Rumsey says he can’t image a better place to exhibit his private map
collection than the airport, the only accredited museum in an airport in
the country.  The installation includes 74 maps, atlases, guidebooks,
globes and charts from his private collection, which numbers more than
150,000 pieces.

The Mapping America exhibition is on view through January 15, 2004 and
is open 24 hours a day, free of charge. It is located pre-security in
Gallery D-5 Central South Connector, located between Terminals 1 and 2
near the Delta and American Airline gates.  For a map locating the
exhibit space see www.sfoarts.org/maps/index.html



Phil Hoehn, Map Librarian
San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
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Contractor for David Rumsey Collection:
http://www.davidrumsey.com