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| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn plan for the layout of the town of Clarksville, bordering Mayfield Creek and Liberty Creek. Fort Jefferson is shown between the townsite and the... |
| Date: | 1790 |
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| Description: | Map of the region surrounding Dayton, Ohio showing rivers and other settlements, with a table of distances from Cincinnati to Dayton and to points outside ... |
| Date: | 1798 |
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| Description: | Uncolored. No scale. One of the earliest maps to show the proposed division of the northwest territory into states. |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | From "A map of the British and French dominions in North American with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements". |
| Date: | 1772 |
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| Description: | Scale: about 180 miles to 1 in. |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | Color map of North American territories owned by the English and by the French. Scale: about 115 milles d'Angleterre to 1 inch. French title is "Carte des ... |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Map of The United States of America according to the Treaty of Peace of 1784. |
| Date: | 1775 |
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| Description: | Detail of Pennsylvania map showing Chester, Philadelphia, and Bucks counties. |
| Date: | 1792 |
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| Description: | Map of Washington D.C. Labeled on the map are all the main streets, the site of the Capitol and the President's House. The map also shows the relationship ... |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| Description: | This drawing, based on an 1897 survey, appeared in the 1899 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, accompanying Publius V. Lawson's arti... |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| Description: | Engraved double-hemispherical world map by Moll, included in his atlas The world described, or, A new and correct sett of maps: shewing the kingdoms and st... |
| Date: | 1715 |
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| Description: | A map of the countries and islands surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. The hand-colored borders separate the territories of England, France, Spain, and Holland... |
| Date: | 1721 |
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| Description: | A map of North and South America with an elaborately illustrated cartouche depicting Native Americans in upper left corner. The map is fairly detailed, dep... |
| Date: | 1735 |
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| Description: | A map of the western hemisphere, including parts of western Europe and Africa. Portraits of explorers, such as Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, and Robert ... |
| Date: | 1739 |
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| Description: | This map shows the territorial claims of the western hemisphere by the European powers, as well as the names of major cities, geographical features, and pa... |
| Date: | 1761 |
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| Description: | This map shows the western hemisphere. Much of the north-west coast of North America is left blank, but the rest of the map lists the names of rivers, citi... |
| Date: | 1786 |
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| Description: | This map is an updated version of d'Anville's 1761 map of the western hemisphere. He included more details to the north west coast of North America, partic... |
| Date: | 1710 |
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| Description: | A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region up to Baffin's Bay in Northern Canada. This is possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit... |
| Date: | 1703 |
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| Description: | Map of the Golf of Mexico and surrounding countries from the Great Lakes down to the northern most parts of South America. L'Isle labels cities, towns, and... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Beaver Map for its elaborate engraved inset depicting and describing beavers building a dam... |
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