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.
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