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Map Collection (1655 - 1978)
The Map Collection was created from gifts of private persons.
Arrangement in Series: By country.
This small collection consists of printed colored European maps, mainly of the territory of North and Central Europe: Scandinavia and Baltic Sea (1678), Germany - Brandenburg, Saxsonia, Pomerania, and Prussia (1692-1779), Poland - especially Gdansk (1734) and Lithuania. Old cities vistas - Warsaw, Cracow, Lwow and Vilnius (17th to 18th century). There are also printed military and administrative maps and atlases of Poland from 20th century.
Acquisition Note: Completed between 1943 and 1999. Gifts of private persons: Louis C. Karpinski, W. Zaborski, Dewey family and others.
Language:
Dimensions: 100 maps (described in inventory 55).
Local system # 001
Finding Aids: Collection inventory,
database description, folder level control.