Rare Maps Acquired

ACQUISITION of some 50 early American A state survey maps by the Dartmouth College Map Library was announced last month by George R. Dalphin, map librarian. The oldest map in the collection is that of Vermont done by James Whitelaw in 1796. Others are of Massachusetts, 1801; New York, 1802; and Virginia, 1807, the latter done by James Madison and extremely rare. In all, the new collection contains maps of 22 states, four territories and several sections of North America.

Dartmouth's collection of early American maps is one of the finest in existence, with New Hampshire especially well covered. The cartographic collections in Baker, containing 35,000 unduplicated maps and some 500 atlases, have more than doubled since 1946.