Found Item: The Stuckenberg Digital Map Collection at Gettysburg College

Free digital collection showcases antique map images from noted late-19th C. scholar John H.W…

Free digital collection showcases antique map images from noted late-19th C. scholar

John H.W. Stuckenberg was a scholar and theologian (and even an American Civil War solider) who split his life between pursuits academic and spiritual, and between America and Germany. From his bio at the online Stuckenberg Collection mounted by Gettysburg College:

Dr. Stuckenberg had a life long interest in maps, and while living in Germany purchased the majority of his collection which consists of three 17th century atlases and over 500 separate maps from the 16th through the 19th century. A few of the cartographers represented in the collection are: Willem Jansoon Blaeu (1571-1638), Matthaus Seutter (1678-1756), and Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777). The maps are housed in Special Collections at Musselman Library.

Those on the ‘net don’t have to travel to Gettysburg to view the collection, as delightful as that can be; the whole collection is viewable via this link. We at Designorati:Cartography suggest a bookmark.

(And a Cartographical Hat Tip to F. Valentine)

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