Collection Items
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MapA new and accurate map of the English empire in North America; Representing their rightful claim as confirmed by charters and the formal surrender of their Indian friends; likewise the encroachments of ... Scale ca. 1:7,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from Ferro." "Sold by Wm. Herbert ... & Robt. Sayer ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 62 Includes notes. Maps in margin: A plan of the harbor and town of Louisbourg on the isle of Cape Briton.--A plan of Chebucto Harbor.--The Atlantic Ocean.--Fort Frederick built by the French at Crown or Scalp...
- Contributor: Society of Anti-Gallicans - Herbert, William - Sayer, Robert
- Date: 1755-01-01
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MapAmplissima regionis Mississipi seu provinciæ Ludovicianæ â R.P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss. in America septentrionali anno 1687 detectæ, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionum negotiis toto orbe celeberrimæ. Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 102 AACR2: 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Homann, Johann Baptist
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapA Plan of the Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac, to shew the situation & importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. Scale ca. 1:75,000. LC copy has printed title with incorrect date [i.e. 1781] glued in lower right margin. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 770 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Date: 1750-01-01
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MapMap of Nova Scotia, or Acadia; with the islands of Cape Breton and St. John's, from actual surveys, Scale ca. 1:390,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows administrative boundaries on St. John's Island. Includes inscription to "John Manners." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 651/3; 651/4; 651/5; 700/1
- Contributor: Dury, Andrew - Montrésor, John
- Date: 1768-01-01
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MapA new map of the western parts of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina; comprehending the River Ohio, and all the rivers, which fall into it; part of the River Mississippi, the ... Scale ca. 1:1,270,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Includes descriptive and historical notes. Supplements the author's A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina. Brown, Lloyd Arnold. Early maps of the Ohio Valley. 51 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 789 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
- Contributor: Cheevers, T. - Hutchins, Thomas
- Date: 1778-01-01
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MapA map of the sources of the Chaudière, Penobscot, and Kennebec rivers, Scale ca. 1:390,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing with reinforced edges. Relief shown pictorially. Shows campsite locations for the author's expedition from Quebec into Maine. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 838 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Montrésor, John
- Date: 1761-01-01
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MapPlan of a rout undertaken in winter, Jany. 26th, from Quebec, the capital of Canada, to the frontier settlements of the Township of Topsham near Brunswick Fort on the River Ammerascaegun in ... Scale 1:506,880; miles 8 to an in. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 808 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Montrésor, John
- Date: 1760-01-01
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MapVermont, from actual survey. Scale ca. 1:670,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1; 651/2
- Contributor: Doolittle, Amos
- Date: 1795-01-01
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MapCampaign of MDCCLXXVI. Scale ca. 1:185,000. Includes descriptive index entitled "Explanation" and inset "Campaign of MDCCLXXVII," ca. 1:410,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1058 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1
- Date: 1780-01-01
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MapThis map of the peninsula between Delaware & Chesopeak Bays, with the said bays and shores adjacent drawn from the most accurate surveys. Scale ca. 1:650,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Inscribed "To the American Philosophical Society." Hand colored. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1376 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2; 710/1
- Contributor: American Philosophical Society - Churchman, John
- Date: 1778-01-01
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MapA survey of Lake Champlain, from Crown Point to Windmil Point, and from thence to St. Iohns. Scale 1:126,720; 2 miles to an in. Title on label on verso: Lake Champlain, from Crown Point to St. Iohns. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Includes numerous annotations in a different hand. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1072 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 651
- Contributor: Brasier, William
- Date: 1762-01-01
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MapMap of Queens Village or Lloyd Neck in Queens County on the north side of Long Island in the Province (now State) of New York. Situated near the parallel of 41 degrees ... Scale ca. 1:2,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. A sketch map showing locations of houses, with owners' names, ponds, etc. A "fort block house built by ye enemy" [i.e. British] and "An inlet where whale boats & barges may be secreted" are of Revolutionary War interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1202 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster...
- Date: 1781-01-01
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MapPlan of Carillon ou [sic] Ticonderoga : which was quitted by the Americaines in the night from the 5th to the 6th of July 1777
Plan of Carillon or Ticonderoga | Position de l'armée ennemie proche le Lac Champlain le 24. 8.[bre?] 1777 Shows military installations and British troop positions in the vicinity of Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) at the time of the Battle of Saratoga (Oct. 1777). Relief shown by hachures. Parts of index in mixed English and French. Pen-and-ink, watercolors, and wash. Sectioned (to 16 panels) and mounted on cloth backing to fold to ca. 21 x 14 cm. Includes note, index of "Position of the...- Contributor: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier - Capitaine Du Chesnoy, Michel
- Date: 1777-01-01
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MapThe State of New Jersey, compiled from the most authentic information. Scale ca. 1:600,000. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. Shows towns, county boundaries, and the "Division line of East and West Jersey." "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography improved." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1; 651/2; 700/1; 700/2
- Contributor: Lewis, Samuel - Guthrie, William - Barker, W. (William) - Carey, Mathew
- Date: 1795-01-01
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MapSketch of the engagement at Trenton, given on the 26th of December 1776 betwixt the American troops under command of General Washington, and three Hessian regiments under command of Colonell Rall, in ... Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 650/1
- Contributor: Wiederholdt, Andreas
- Date: 1776-01-01
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MapTo His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States of America, this plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, Scale ca. 1:14,400. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References to the British lines" with illus. of ships and "Explanation" of the American and French siege operations. LC copy annotated on verso: Plan de l'investissement de York et de Glocester. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1471 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100;...
- Contributor: Bauman, Sebastian - Scot, Robert
- Date: 1782-01-01
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Map[An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian frontier, shewing in a distinct manner all the mounta]ins, rivers, swamps, marshes, bays, creeks, harbours, sandbanks and soundings on the coasts; ... Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Imperfect: Part of title wanting. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and harbour of Charlestown [ca. 1:75,000] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1394 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm) - Mouzon, Henry
- Date: 1775-01-01
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MapA map of Louisiana, with the course of the Missisipi, and the adjacent rivers, the nations of the natives, the French establishments and the mines; by the author of ye History of ... Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From the author's The history of Louisiana; or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina. 1763. v. 1. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Le Page Du Pratz
- Date: 1763-01-01
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MapPlan of New Orleans the capital of Louisiana; with the disposition of its quarters and canals as they have been traced by Mr. de la Tour in the year 1720. Scale ca. 1:5,000. "Pa. 148." Insets: The course of Mississipi River, from Bayagoulas to the sea [ca. 1:800,000]--The east mouth of the Mississipi, with the plan of Fort la Balise which defends the entrance and channel of that river [ca. 1:40,000] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1677 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100;...
- Contributor: Brion De La Tour, Louis - Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1759-01-01
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MapPlan of New Orleans the capital of Louisiana; with the disposition of its quarters and canals as they have been traced by Mr. de la Tour in the year 1720. Scale ca. 1:5,000. "Pa. 148" under brown edging. Insets: The course of Mississipi River, from Bayagoulas to the sea [ca. 1:800,000]--The east mouth of the Mississipi, with the plan of Fort la Balise which defends the entrance and channel of that river [ca. 1:40,000] LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1677 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image....
- Contributor: Brion De La Tour, Louis - Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1759-01-01