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Library of Congress Digitizes 10,000th Map

Champlain's 1607 map The Library of Congress’s Geography and Map Division is a huge resource of digital images of old maps. On Wednesday they reached a symbolic but impressive milestone: they posted their 10,000 digitized map to their web site: Samuel de Champlain’s 1607 map of the northeastern coast of North America. Via MapHist.

Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:19 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Libraries

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