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• David Rumsey Collection

View high-resolution scans that showcase the breadth of the David Rumsey Map Collection, including atlases, globals, school geographics, maritime charts, pocket maps, wall maps, and manuscript maps.
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• Maps of Africa

Stanford Libraries is home to a strong collection of maps of Africa, including maps donated by Oscar I. Norwich and Caroline Batchelor as well as maps from the Barry Lawrence Ruderman Collection, the University of Cape Town Collections, and the David Rumsey Map Collection.
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• Glen McLaughlin Map Collection of California as an Island

The first mention of California as an island is in Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo’s novel Las Sergas de Esplandián, published in 1510. It was not until Father Eusebio Kino’s map A Passage by Land to California was published around 200 years later that this cartographic blunder was exposed. Containing nearly 800 maps, materials in this collection range from hemispheric to world maps, from title pages to celestial charts, all depicting California as an island.
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