Collection Items
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Book/Printed MaterialIntroduction to the Guiana colonies. "Authorities": p. 21.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 38 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBritish Guiana. "Appendix" (p. [84]-87): Extracts from treaties, etc., relating to British Guiana. "Authorities": p.96-97.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 118 pages
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MapNew Map of the Wonderful, Large and Rich Land of Guiana.
Nieuwe caerte van het wonderbaer ende goudrycke Landt Guiana This hand-colored map of Guiana (present-day French Guyana, Suriname, and Guyana) is the work of Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), the patriarch of one of the most famous Dutch mapmaking families. The map includes annotations in Dutch about the indigenous peoples of northern South America, along with fantastic illustrations of South American animals. The Amazon and Orinoco rivers are both well depicted on the map.- Contributor: Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1598-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapGuyana, or, the Kingdom of the Amazons.
Guiana, siue, Amazonum Regio This map of colonial Guiana (present-day Suriname) is the work of Jan Jansson (died 1664), a Dutch cartographer who married into the Hondius family of illustrious mapmakers. Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) and his sons, Jodocus and Henricus, engraved maps of the Americas and Europe, and were instrumental in popularizing the work of Gerard Mercator, the developer of the Mercator Projection that allowed navigators to use…- Contributor: Jansson, Jan
- Date: 1600-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapWest India Islands and the Approaches to the Panama Canal.
West India Islands, & the Approaches to the Panama Canal This large folding map, issued by the London Geographical Institute during World War I, shows the islands of the Caribbean Sea and the approaches to the Panama Canal. The canal had opened to traffic in early 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the war. Protection of the canal against possible sabotage by Germany was a concern of U.S. military planners in World War I…- Contributor: London Geographical Institute
- Date: 1915-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapBritish Guiana. This map, prepared and printed in 1908 at the office of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, United Kingdom, provides a relatively detailed view of the geography of British Guiana (present-day Guyana), one of only two British colonies on the mainland of South and Central America (the other being British Honduras). A note indicates that the portion of the map north of 5° North latitude is…- Contributor: Great Britain. Ordnance Survey - Anderson, Charles Wilgress
- Date: 1908-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Colonies of Suriname and Berbice.
Landkaart van de Volkplantingen Suriname en Berbice This 18th-century map shows the Dutch plantations in Suriname and Berbice. The map is oriented with the north at the bottom. The names ascribed to locations outside the neatly demarcated plantations suggest resistance to Dutch domination by local Indians, indentured servants, and slaves imported from Africa. They include several places marked "rebel villages," "village of runaways," and "village of rebel slaves." The inset map…- Date: 1700-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapSketch Map of British Guiana. Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804--65) was a British naturalist and surveyor known for his pioneering surveys of British Guiana (present-day Guyana). Born and educated in Germany, he traveled to the West Indies in 1830 where he completed a survey of one of the Virgin Islands that was published in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835--39, under the direction of the Royal Geographical…- Contributor: Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), Sir
- Date: 1840-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapGuiana and Caribana.
Guiana, verdeelt in Guiana en Caribana This map of part of the northern coast of South America is a Dutch version of a map originally produced around 1650 by Nicolas Sanson (1600--1667), royal geographer to Kings Louis XIII and XIV, and commonly known as the father of French cartography. Numerous editions copied from Sanson were printed in the early 18th century. The map covers the region from the island of…- Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
- Date: 1700-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Colony of Berbice Located in Batavian Guiana in America between the Colonies of Demerara and Suriname.
Kaart van de Colonie de Berbice gelegen in Bats. Guiana in America tusschen de Colonien van Demerarie en van Surinamen This detailed 1802 map, drawn by a Dutch military officer and issued by the distinguished Amsterdam cartographic publishing firm of Covens and Mortier, shows the Dutch colony of Berbice as it appeared at the beginning of the 19th century. Located along the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, Berbice was established in 1627 under the authority of the Dutch West India Company. The inset map…- Contributor: Bouchenroeder, Friedrich Von, Flourished 1795 - Baarsel, Cornelis Van
- Date: 1802-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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MapMap of the Whole of Guiana or the Savage Coast, and the Spanish West Indies at the Northern End of South America.
Kart van geheel Guajana of de Wilden-Kust This 18th-century Dutch map, produced in Amsterdam by the publisher Isaak Tirion (circa 1705--circa 1769), shows the northern coast of South American and its offshore islands, including Curaçao, Bonaire, and neighboring islands; Trinidad and Tobago; and Grenada. Guiana is divided, from west to east, into Spanish, Dutch, and French sections, corresponding roughly to a part of present-day Venezuela and present-day Guyana, Suriname, and French…- Contributor: Tirion, Isaak, 1705 1769
- Date: 1720-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingPorkknocker Ready for his Journey Across the Mountains, on his Back is a Warishi. This photograph shows a man on the savannahs of Guyana, carrying his equipment and belongings in a warashi (a knapsack-like basket) on his back. He appears to be prepared for a trek into the interior of Guyana, in search of gold and diamonds. A porkknocker is a Guyanese prospector and miner who extracts and processes gold and diamonds using simple methods. These rugged individualists…- Date: 1978-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Photo, Print, DrawingSearching for Diamonds. This photograph shows three porkknockers in the interior of Guyana. A porkknocker is a Guyanese prospector and miner who extracts and processes gold and diamonds using simple methods. These rugged individualists have been responsible for some of the great discoveries of gold and diamonds in Guyana's interior. There are many stories of porkknockers who struck it rich, but then spent their fortunes in ways…- Date: 1978-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page