# Waldseemuller map 2

- By: Martin Waldseemüller
- Date: 1507
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3200.ct000725
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/c/c0/Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg/1920px-Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.