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Monday, October 14, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0210120452oct13,0,1555312.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed Web sites charting a new course in historic maps Charles Sheehan, Associated Press Writer You can see--even download--a 1902 map of Pittsburgh for free from the Library of Congress. But some Internet entrepreneurs are banking on the prospect that you would pay for its delivery to your home or office in the form of a poster.And that's just fine, say many curators, who figure those commercial Internet sites, while making money, also help expose historical images to thousands of people who otherwise might never be aware of them. "Our basic philosophy at the library is that we provide the vanilla item and someone else can add value," says Gary Fitzpatrick, a cartographic specialist for the Library of Congress....
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