David Rumsey is a map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates.
Rumsey has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts. He was also a 1966 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society, before becoming Associate Director of the American Society for Eastern Arts in San Francisco. He was a lecturer in art at the Yale School of Art for several years.
Starting somewhere around 1983, and entering into his third career, Rumsey has collected nearly 150,000 maps of eighteenth - and nineteenth-century North and South America. The collection also features world maps which includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of other maps. The collection is available on his website for free viewing. See:
Read more about David Rumsey: Awards, Associations and Books, About Cartography Associates
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