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Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection | Open Culture

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Stanford University’s been in the news lately, what with expanding its tuition waiver last year and now facing renewed scrutiny over its ultra-low admissions rate. These stories have perhaps overshadowed other Stanford news of a more academic nature: the arrival of the David Rumsey Map Center, which celebrated its grand opening yesterday and continues the festivities today and tomorrow.

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An Incredible Map Collection Gets Its First Physical Home
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Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his concentration is maps from the 18th and 19th centuries, when there was an increase of available geographic, census, and other terrestrial data, the collection really has everything cartographic: celestial globes, 19th-century maps by children, an 1837 atlas for the blind, timelines, World’s Fair guides, aeronautical charts, 17th-century constellations, and more than 2,000 pictorial maps alone. In April, Stanford University opened the David Rumsey Map Center in its Green Library. The center is the first publicly accessible location for the over 150,000 maps, which Rumsey announced he was donating back in 2009.

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Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful #David_Rumsey_Map_Collection

Stanford University’s been in the news lately, what with expanding its tuition waiver last year and now facing renewed scrutiny over its ultra-low admissions rate. These stories have perhaps overshadowed other Stanford news of a more academic nature: the arrival of the David Rumsey Map Center, which celebrated its grand opening yesterday and continues the festivities today and tomorrow.

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