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Subject:        Re: First U.S. map purchased for record price (UNCLASSIFIED)
Date:   Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:00:00 -0600 (CST)
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FYI - a link to an advertisement for Abel Buell's map that was published
in the March 31, 1784 Connecticut Journal (New Haven, CT) --
http://bit.ly/hZAzd9

Jim Walsh

On Jan 31, 2011, *Angie Cope* <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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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
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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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