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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is one of the world's largest private collections of some 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey, who after making his fortune in real estate, focused on collecting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North and South America as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography.
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