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A Man of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 38. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 42. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A View of Snug Corner Cove in Prince William's Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 45. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Man of Prince William's Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 46. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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A Man of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 48. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Canoes of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 50. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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The Inside of a House, in Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 58. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Thomas Jefferson

Date: 1786
Description: Portrait engraving of Thomas Jefferson, from the painting by M. Brown.
Photograph

Samson Occom

Date: 1766
Description: Portrait of Mohegan minister and preacher Samson Occom, posed sitting with his finger on a Bible on a bookstand, with Indian implements visible on the wall...
Painting

Thayendanegea

Date: 1786
Description: Print of a Gilbert Stuart painted portrait of Thayendangea (known also as Joseph Brant). He wears a feathered headdress and a shell around his neck.
Map or Atlas

Mappe-Monde Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Messrs. del’Academie Royale des Sciences, etc. Augmentees de Nouveau

Date: 1720
Description: Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ...
Map or Atlas

A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down According to the Newest Discoveries, and from the Most Exact Observations

Date: 1712
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...
Map or Atlas

Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
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...
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America: with the British and Spanish Territories, According to the Treaty, of 1784

Date: 1785
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...
Map or Atlas

Amerique: Les Francois Possedent en Cette Partie le Canada, la Floride, Partie de Nouv. Bretagne et de l'I. de Terre Neuve…

Date: 1735
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 ...
Map or Atlas

Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France: Et des Decouvertes qui y ont été Faites

Date: 1710
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...
Map or Atlas

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles: Du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi [sic], Dressée sur Ungrand Nombre de Memoires Principalemt. sur ceux de M.rs d'Iberville et le Sueur

Date: 1703
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...
Map or Atlas

This Map of North America, According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated by your Lordship's Most Humble Servant Herman Moll, Geographer

Date: 1715
Description: One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map, it shows rivers and portages, cities, Indian villages, wind directions, routes...
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Le Cours de Missisipi, ou de St. Louis: Fameuse Riviere de L'Amerique Septentrionale aux Environs de Laquelle se Trouve le Païs Appelle Louisiane

Date: 1718
Description: This map shows the Mississippi River, with latitude and longitude coordinates, ad covers east to Lake Ontario and south to Illinois. The inset map (the top...

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