Posts from — February 2009

David Rumsey is donating his collection of thousands of rare and historical American maps to Standford University.

Rumsey says one of the rarest maps that has been donated is Lewis & Clark’s map used during their journey through the upper Missouri and into Oregon published in 1814.

The collection of about 150,000 maps will go to Stanford Library’s Special Collections Division for preservation.

Rumsey has spent at least 30 years collecting rare and antique maps. About 18,000 of the maps digitized for online viewing at his web site http://www.davidrumsey.com.

Read the full story.

Edit: A more indepth story regarding the donation  is now available from The Imperial Valley News.

[tags]David Rumsey, antique maps, antique map collections, lewis and clark[/tags]