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Photographer: Public Domain US-PD
Caption: Universalis Cosmographia, Waldseemüller's 1507 world map.
Additional Description: Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
Submitted: January 14, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p373485
File Size: 1.487 Megabytes

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