Alan Jacobs


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Landmark 1979 California Water Atlas Debuts Online, from the David Rumsey Historical Map collection in 2010.

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Originally published in 1979, The California Water Atlas, a monument of 20th century cartographic publishing, has been scanned and put online for free public access by the David Rumsey Map Collection. Linda Vida, Director of The Water Resources Center Archives of the University of California asked David Rumsey and Cartography Associates to scan and make available to the public this extraordinary book. The copyright holder, the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, agreed to allow free public access online.