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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."After 2004 Rumsey expanded the collection to include maps from the 16th through 21st centuries, covering more of the world. In 2008 the collection's website was cited as one of only seven websites with freely available "skillfully compiled carto-bibliographic entries with corresponding early-map images." At that time the site comprised 16,000 digital images.
In February 2009, David Rumsey announced that the entire collection would be donated to Stanford University, including 150,000 maps and their digital images, as well as the database used to track the images. Stanford houses the collection in the new David Rumsey Map Center which opened in the main library in 2016. The website (where the images are posted on-line) was to continue as a separate public resource.
As of February 2022, there were over 114,000 digitized items available through the website, hundreds of which were hosted through Google Earth layers. Select maps are also featured at the Rumsey Maps island in Second Life. as well as 2D and 3D GIS. A new MapRank search tool has been added enabling geographical searching of about 60,000 maps from the collection by map location and coverage. In addition, a georeferencing tool has been added that allows site users to georeference and display any of the maps in the collection. The website has additional viewers from Luna Imaging, Inc, including the LUNA browser which doesn’t require any special plug-ins or software to view the collection, zoom into image detail, create slide shows, media groups, or presentations.
The website also has a blog listing new additions to the collection, featured maps, news, videos, and related sites.
When a document is found on the website, it is usually accompanied by extensive metadata, such as author, date of publication, short title, type, dimensions, note(s), area, full title of the document, full title of the publication it may be part of with notes and download options. Provided by Wikipedia
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Plan of Fort Baton Rouge
Published 1826“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Lacs volcaniques de la IIe. et IIIe. époque
Published 1827“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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United States of America
Published 1804“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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A human sacrifice, in a morai, in Otaheite
Published 1785“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Scotland with the principal roads from the best authorities.
Published 1811“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Views on the coast of Kamtschatka
Published 1785“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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An authentic plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the operations of the siege of Quebec under the command of Vice-Adml. Saunders & Major Gen...
Published 1760“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Man of the island of Tanna
Published 1777“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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The state of Georgia
Published 1814“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Etats du Grand-Seigneur en Asie, Empire de Perse, Pays des Usbecs, Arabie et Egypte
Published 1753“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Map of the empire of Germany including all the states comprehended under that name: with the Kingdom of Prussia, &c. /
Published 1790“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Amérique Septentrionale dressée, sur les relations les plus modernes des voyageurs et navigateurs, et divisée suivant les differentes possessions des Européens /
Published 1750“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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A young woman of the Sandwich Islands
Published 1785“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Scandia or Scandinavia comprehending Sweden and Norway, with the Danish islands, to which is added the remainder of the possessions of Denmark /
Published 1794“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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Impero di Alessandro
Published 1856“…David Rumsey Collection…”
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