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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Mining and lumbering provided the impetus for the development of northern Wisconsin and Ashland was ideally situated to become a leading city of the "new W... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map from Drake Expedition, ca. 1585. |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Map of the Northwestern Territories of the United State showing the track pursued by the Expedition in 1820. |
| Date: | 1698 |
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| Description: | Copperplate engraving. Scale [ca. 1:11,500,00]. |
| Date: | 1688 |
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| Description: | This map includes vignettes of Amerindian life with text describing geography, culture, and exploration activity, written in French. The Great Lakes, river... |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Map of the city of Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River showing streets and numbered lots. The Ohio River, Corn Island, and the Louisville and Portland C... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
| 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: | 1696 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Ethiopia, from Blaeu's General Atlas. Map title is framed by a man and a woman, both wearing head turbans, who are standin... |
| Date: | 1798 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Egypt. Map title appears on bottom left as a carving in stone next ... |
| Date: | 1740 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki... |
| Date: | 1785 |
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| Description: | Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th... |
| 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: | 1746 |
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| Description: | A map of the western hemisphere, including parts of western Europe and Africa, showing the division of the Americas by the European powers. Weapons and fol... |
| 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... |
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