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when he founded the library in the 1920s but he showed little interest in visual materials. The current
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material that today has a monetary value many times that amount." Associates are invited to attend
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on July 22, 1923. Wroth vigorously praised
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The Map Division holds some 30,000 maps and plans, about 1,500 of which are manuscripts. Many of the latter came to the library with manuscript collections such as the
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collection has been assembled to document the expansion of geographical knowledge of the Americas from the 15th through the 19th centuries, with particular emphasis on
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