Sentence examples for map collection from inspiring English sources

And he acquired trophy assets like an N.B.A. team and a $12 million antique map collection.

Krieger ended up co-editing "Mapping Boston," with David Cobb, the head of the map collection at the Harvard library.

The circulation of the Library of Congress's map collection has multiplied eight times since we entered the war.

A colleague in the map collection there knew Smiley, and said that in fact some items he had been looking at recently were missing.

Chesapeake tried to give him a financial lift with a $75 million bonus and by agreeing to buy his personal map collection.

Matt Knutzen, the curator of the N.Y.P.L's map collection, is charged with helping the library determine how this vast repository of information can best be housed, catalogued, and viewed, both in the library and on the Web.

Other map collections from the library include those depicting exploration, military campaigns and environmental characteristics.

What would Gerardus Mercator, the 16th-century cartographer who gave the name "atlas" to bound map collections, think of all this?

"If correct," said Peter Barber, head of map collections at the British Library, Father Fischer's connection to "Speculum Historiale" "is close to a smoking gun".

The Newberry has a peerless road-map collection, in a climate-controlled vault — a kind of giant, fantasy glove compartment.

Compare the census with a city map such as the Sanborn Fire Maps Collection (many for New York City are online).