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MapAn accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on the river Ohio. Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241 LC maps of North America, 1750-1789, 707 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 1730
- Date: 1754-01-01
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MapPlan of Princess Ann and Norfolk counties. Shows names of some residents. Map on 2 sheets sectioned and pasted together. LC Land ownership maps, 1333 Includes historical references. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. On verso: This photostat was made from the original manuscript in the William Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
- Date: 1780-01-01
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MapMap of Fort Pontchartrain in Canada, on the Strait of Lake Erie.
Plan du Fort Pontchartrain en Canada situé sur le bord du détroit Erié Fort Pontchartrain, located at the straits of Lake Erie and Lake Saint-Clair in what is today the city of Detroit, Michigan, was established in 1701 by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, a French military officer. It was named in honor of France's navy minister, the Comte de Pontchartrain. Lamothe Cadillac was something of a visionary megalomaniac who hoped to make the post "the Paris...- Date: 1732-01-01
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MapSquare no. 602, city of Washington Cadastral map of block bounded by Canal, Q, 2nd, and R streets S.W. in the area formerly called Carrolsburg. On verso: Augt. 24th 1799. Title from verso. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark (regal figure in cartouche surmounted by crown). Pen-and-ink. Fold-lined. Accompanied by manila folder: Autograph of city of Washington surveyor's plat ... / Forest H. Sweet, Battle Creek, Michigan. [4] p....
- Contributor: District of Columbia. Office of the Surveyor - King, Rt. (Robert)
- Date: 1799-01-01
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MapSquare south of square no. 667, city of Washington Cadastral map of block bounded by Water, W, 1st, nd V streets S.W. in the area formerly called Carrollsburg. Date mentioned in text on verso: 26th day of June 1794. Title from verso. Watermark (regal figure in cartouche surmounted by crown). Pen-and-ink. Fold-lined. Accompanied by manila folder: Autograph of R. King, Surveyor, city of Washington ... / Forest H. Sweet, Battle Creek, Michigan. [4]...
- Contributor: District of Columbia. Office of the Surveyor - King, Rt. (Robert)
- Date: 1799-01-01
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MapCarte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent dans le grand fleuve de Missisipi [sic] ... ; Carte que les Gnacsitares : ont dessine sur des paux ...
Carte de la riviere Longue ; Carte que les Gnacsitares | Riviere Longue Map 1 covers area of Minnesota River, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Mississippi River south to Saint Louis. Map 2 covers the area west of the Minnesota River. Both maps drawn within same neat lines, divided by parallel dashed lines with caption "Separation des ces deux cartes." Appears in author's Mémoires de l'Amérique septentrionale, v. 2, of his Nouveaux voyages, La Haye, 1703. Described...- Contributor: Lahontan
- Date: 1703-01-01
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MapPartie occidentale de la Virginie, Pensylvanie, Maryland, et Caroline Septle. la rivière d'Ohio, et toutes celles qui s'y jettent, partie de la Rivière Mississippi, tout le cours de la rivière de Illinois, ... Scale ca. 1:2,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Translation of Thomas Hutchins' New map of the western part of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, 1778. Includes descriptive and historical notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 790 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 440; 651/1;...
- Contributor: Hutchins, Thomas - Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
- Date: 1781-01-01
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MapMap of the Village of the Ottawa "Savages," at the Erie Strait, 1732.
Plan du Village des Sauvages Outaouas, au Détroit Erié, 1732 Detroit was founded in 1701 by a French trader, Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, who built a fort on the Detroit River and named it Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in honor of Louis Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain, the French navy minister. The British later shortened the name to Detroit ("strait"). Fort Pontchartrain was located near three Indian villages, one of which was the Ottawa...- Date: 1732-01-01
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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. LC copy annotated in ink. One annotation shows "Indian line as of treaty in 1784." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Includes historical and descriptive text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 789 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Cheevers, T. - Hutchins, Thomas
- Date: 1778-01-01
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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. LC copy annotated in pen-and-ink. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Shows military bounty lands. Includes historical and descriptive notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 789 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Cheevers, T. - Hutchins, Thomas
- Date: 1778-01-01
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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. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Annotated in ink. One annotation shows where "Genr. Wayne defeated the Indians Augt. 20, 1794." Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and London. Includes historical and descriptive text. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 789 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Cheevers, T. - Hutchins, Thomas
- Date: 1778-01-01
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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 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 the Western Ocean and Part of Northern America Drawn up to Record the Travels in 1720 of Father Charlevoix of the Society of Jesus in Canada, Louisiana and Saint-Domingue.
Carte de l'océan occidental et partie de l'Amérique septentrionale dressée pour l'intelligence du journal du voyage que le R.P. de Charlevoix de la Compagnie de Jesus a fait en 1720 au Canada, à la Louisiane & à St Domingue Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit priest who made a voyage to America in 1720-22. He had already taught in Quebec in 1705-9 and then was recalled to France. He departed Rochefort for New France on July 2, 1720, and arrived in Quebec on September 23 of that year. From there, he traveled to Montreal, Ontario, Niagara Falls, and as far as Lake...- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas - Desbrulins, F.
- Date: 1744-01-01
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Map[Etats-Unis: Partie septentrionale]. Scale ca. 1:2,200,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title from manuscript label on verso as originally mounted. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows northern U.S. and Great Lakes region of U.S. and Canada. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 651/2; 651/3
- Date: 1708-01-01
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MapA map of North America : from the latest surveys and maps Relief shown pictorially. From the author's Chronology and history of the world. London, 1768. Prime meridian: Ferro. Annotated in pencil at lower right: "1769, from Blair's Chronology." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Kitchin, Thomas - Blair, John
- Date: 1768-01-01