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| Date: | 1783 |
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| Description: | This map is hand-colored and shows the boundaries of British, Spanish, and the newly recognized American claims, as well as the fishing rights granted to F... |
| Date: | 1788 |
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| Description: | This map shows the north western coast of North America, including the southern coast of what will be Alaska and parts of the Aleutian Islands. It includes... |
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| Description: | Still from the film 1950 film "Destination Moon." The rocket ship is sitting on the lunar landscape. |
| Date: | 1769 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical map showing the continents, islands, countries, and a few major cities of the world. The routes of a few explorers are depicted and la... |
| Date: | 1556 |
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| Description: | One of the earliest obtainable maps to accurately (for its time) depict the Americas, this map shows more decorative than descriptive features. A few river... |
| Date: | 1675 |
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| Description: | This atlas shows the western hemisphere, with a small portion of Spain and Africa. Several place names are labeled, such as the Plymouth colony, settlement... |
| Date: | 1676 |
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| Description: | Detailed map of North and South America. Cities, towns, forests, and mountains are shown pictorially. Duval labels regions, islands, cities, lakes, and Nat... |
| Date: | 1679 |
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| Description: | Decorative and detailed map of the eastern half of North America. Regions, cities, colonies, Native America land, rivers, lakes and some nautical features ... |
| Date: | 1685 |
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| Description: | A detailed map of the western hemisphere showing cities, settlements, Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Great Lakes, and California as an... |
| Date: | 1724 |
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| Description: | Map showing the mountains, rivers, lakes, settlements, islands, and regions of North and South America. Characteristic of de L'Isle, this map is highly det... |
| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Detailed map of the western hemisphere and part of Africa and Europe. Islands, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, countries, and regions are marked. Mount... |
| Date: | 1759 |
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| Description: | Map of North and South America showing regions, colonies, cities and settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Near the bottom left an inset ma... |
| Date: | 1684 |
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| Description: | Map of North America showing some colonies, cities, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Ship routes spread across both oceans, including one decorated... |
| Date: | 1705 |
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| Description: | Map of America east of the Mississippi River showing boundaries, rivers, portages, forts, cities, villages, and Native American land. Annotations on early ... |
| Date: | 1710 |
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| Description: | Map of North America showing the European claims, Native American land and villages, rivers, lakes, cities, and notes on explorers, discoveries, and topogr... |
| Date: | 1713 |
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| Description: | Map showing the regions explored by Robert de La Salle between 1681 and 1686, as well as the route La Salle, and later Henri Joutel, took, moving north fro... |
| Date: | 1760 |
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| Description: | Map of North America based upon the cartographic work of de L'Isle. It shows cities, regions, lakes, rivers, Native American land, mountains, islands, and ... |
| Date: | 1766 |
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| Description: | This map of North America shows the boundaries of European claims at the end of the French and Indian war. The British colonies extend to the Mississippi. ... |
| Date: | 1775 |
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| Description: | This six sheet large format map is one of the most informative maps of its time. It shows cities, Native American land, lakes, rivers, mountains, topograph... |
| Date: | 1739 |
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| Description: | Map of North America using sinusoidal projection to represent the curvature of the earth. It shows settlements and cities, Native American land, lakes, riv... |
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