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The David Rumsey Collection was started nearly 20 years ago, and focuses primarily on cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries, but also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, gl ...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html
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- Toppan Rare Books Library
The American Heritage Center AHC is UW’s archives, rare books, and manuscripts repository. Most universities have special collections. Few have special collections as extensive and significant as the American Heritage Center. More importantly, few un ...
http://ahc.uwyo.edu/about/departments/toppan.htm
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- Aesthetic Realism Foundation
THE PURPOSE of the notforprofit Aesthetic Realism Foundation is to meet the urgent need for people throughout America and the world to see each other and reality fairly. The means to that fairness is Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded in 1941 ...
http://www.aestheticrealism.org/info-req.htm
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- The leadhills miners library
It is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles. The Liverpool Subscription Library, the first in England was not founded until 1758. It is also the second highest at 1400 feet above sea level. The highest and second oldest library being i ...
http://www.miners-library.fsnet.co.uk/
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- The Balson Holdings Family Trust
The Balson Holdings Family Trust holds several valuable and unique collections and works including old maps; documents; political memorabilia; African artifacts and death masks; South African and Fijian numismatic items; old and rare books; oneofakin ...
http://www.bhft.com/
| | - The Getty Research Library
The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts. Its Research Library with special collections of rare materials and digital resources serves an international community of scholars and ...
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/
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- University of Arizona Library
The University of Arizona Library Special Collections maintains collections of rare books and unique archival materials that make possible indepth research on selected topics. The scope and diversity of Special Collections make it an important resour ...
http://www.library.arizona.edu/speccoll/
| | - Great White Fleet
This site presents over 6000 Great White Fleet items in the private collection of William Stewart. The 1908 Cruise around the world executed by Teddy Roosevelt to demonstrate American might. ...
http://www.greatwhitefleet.info/
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- The Monash University Rare Books Collection
From its humble beginnings in 1960 in a room in the Vice Chancellors house, the Monash University Library has grown to become one of Australias leading academic libraries, with multiple locations and a collection of more than 2.8 million items.The se ...
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/rare/
| | - Haverford College
Haverford’s Libraries give information and research support to students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the College. Library staff focus their energies on helping individual users identify what they need, retrieve it quickly, and use it effectively. ...
http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/
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