Historical map
The University of Florida Map Library, which began in 1973, marked its 500,001st acquisition with a map of Africa printed in 1592. In the foreground (from left to right), Bruce Chappell, Daniel Reboussin and Florence Turcotte admire the ‘John Speed’ map, the first English map of Africa earlier this week.
Friday, December 2, 2005
(Bob Bird/UF News Bureau)
