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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
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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
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Photo, Print, DrawingRural Scene. This photograph from Suriname shows traditional thatched huts in a small village. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs were taken by prominent photographers on OAS missions to member countries. The OAS was established in April 1948…- Date: 1970-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingVarious Types of Surinamese.
Diverse Surinaamse typen This watercolor by Arnold Borret (1848-88) consists of small sketches of different members of society and their various ethnic backgrounds in the Dutch colony of Suriname in the late 1880s. Borret was an accomplished amateur artist who was also a lawyer and a Roman Catholic priest. He studied law at the University of Leiden and practiced in Rotterdam before becoming a clerk, in 1878,…- Contributor: Borret, Arnold
- Date: 1881-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDance to Fertility Goddess. This photograph from Suriname shows a group of women performing a fertility dance. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs were taken by prominent photographers on OAS missions to member countries. The OAS was established in April…- Date: 1980-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingCarving a Tray. This photograph from Suriname shows a man seated beside a thatched hut carving a large wooden tray from a single piece of wood, using a machete-like implement. The photograph is from the collection of the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes 45,000 photographs illustrative of life and culture in the Americas. Many of the photographs were taken by…- Date: 1970-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialDutch Guiana. "Appendix" (p. [68]-69): Extracts from treaties relating to Dutch Guiana. "Authorities": p. [78]-79.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text - 98
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Photo, Print, DrawingAucaner Signal on Apintie.
Aucaner Signal on Apénte This photograph from Suriname shows a Maroon in a seated position beating an apintie, a drum made out of wood and wild boar skins. Maroon refers to fugitive slaves from the West Indies and the northern part of South America, and their descendants. The Maroon community was especially numerous in Suriname, a former Dutch colony in which many slaves managed to escape to the…- Date: 1980-01-01
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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: PDF, Text - 38
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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: Image
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MapExtrait de la carte hollandise representant la colonie de Surinam : sur le quel on a marque les voyages qu'a fait dans cette colonie Mr. Malonet, commissaire général de la marine, ordonateur … Cadastral map of eastern coast of Suriname. Relief shown by shading. Printed label with tab mounted on verso: Ch. Picquet, géographe ordinaire du roi et S.A.S. Monseigr. le Duc d'Orléans. A Paris Quai de Conti no. 17, entre l'Hôtel des Monnaies et le Pont des Arts. Annotated in black ink on label: Colonie de Surinam. Annotated in black ink on tab: Côte de la…- Contributor: Mentelle, Simon M.
- Date: 1777-01-01
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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
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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
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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
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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: Anderson, Charles Wilgress - Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
- Date: 1908-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCharter Given by the High and Mighty Lords of the States General on the Date of June the Third, 1621.
Octroy, By de Hooghe Mogende Heeren Staten Generael, verleent aende West-Indische Compagnie, in date den derden Junij 1621 On June 3, 1621, the States-General, the governing body of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, issued a charter to a group of Dutch merchants to establish the Dutch West India Company. Similar to the Dutch East India Company, which was founded in 1602 in order to promote trade with Asia, the West India Company was granted a 24-year monopoly on all trade by…- Contributor: States-General
- Date: 1623-01-01
- Resource: PDF
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Book/Printed MaterialFrench Guiana. "Appendix" (p. [51]-53): Extracts from treaties, etc., relating to French Guiana. "Authorities": p. [60]-61.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: PDF, Text
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Book/Printed Material[Volume 16] A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world; many of which are now first translated into English. Digested on a …- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Pinkerton, John
- Date: 1808
- Resource: Volume 16 - PDF, Text
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