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Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way

Date: 1886
Description: Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean....
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 12-18

Date: 
Description: She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here
on the outer edge of worry
It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice
A ha...
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

Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum five Presbiteriioannis Imperium

Date: 1696
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...
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

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

Carte des Nouvelles Découvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud, Tant à L'est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka, qu'à L'ouest de la Nouvelle France

Date: 1780
Description: This map shows the northern Pacific Ocean with North America and Asia, with cities and geographical features labeled, as well Russian, French and Spanish r...
Map or Atlas

America with those Known Parts in that Unknowne Worlde both People and Manner of Buildings

Date: 1627
Description: Map of North and South America showing settlements, rivers, lakes, mountains, islands and regions of the western hemisphere. It includes an inset map of Gr...
Map or Atlas

Americæ Nova Tabula

Date: 1630
Description: One of the few maps by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu depicting the Americas, this map shows regions, settlements, islands, mountains, forests, rivers, an...
Map or Atlas

Atlantis Insula à Nicolao Sanson Antiquitati Restituta: Nunc Demum Majori Formâ Delineata, et in Decem Regna, Iuxtá Decem Neptuni Filios Distributa

Date: 1690
Description: A mysterious mixture of mythology, ancient geography, and late 17th century knowledge of the American coastline. This map shows North and South America, bu...
Map or Atlas

L'Ameriqve Autrement le Novveav Monde et Indes Occidentales

Date: 1676
Description: Detailed map of North and South America. Cities, towns, forests, and mountains are shown pictorially. Duval labels regions, islands, cities, lakes, and Nat...
Map or Atlas

Americae Mappa Generalis: Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae Regulas

Date: 1746
Description: Detailed map of the western hemisphere and part of Africa and Europe. Islands, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, countries, and regions are marked. Mount...
Map or Atlas

Amérique ou Nouveau Continent Dressée sur les Nouvelles Rélations Découvertes et Observations

Date: 1759
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...
Map or Atlas

America Septentrionalis

Date: 1636
Description: Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on...
Map or Atlas

Carte Universelle du Monde Vulgairement dite la Mappemonde: Avec de Nouvelles Observations Touchant les Navigations de Long Cours Par P. Du-Val. Amerique Septemtrionale

Date: 1684
Description: Map of North America showing some colonies, cities, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Ship routes spread across both oceans, including one decorated...
Map or Atlas

Carte de la Nouvelle France: òu se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis

Date: 1719
Description: This extremely detailed and ornate map shows the cities, Native American land, mountains, lakes, rivers, and European claims of North America. An inset map...
Map or Atlas

America Septentrionalis Concinnata Juxta Observationes Dñn Academiae Regalis Scientiarum: et Nonnullorum Aliorum, et Juxta Annotationes Recentissimas

Date: 1760
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 ...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent Thereto

Date: 1733
Description: This map of North America shows settlements, rivers, lakes, Native American land, trade winds, and numerous topographical features such as forests and moun...
Map or Atlas

Regni Mexicani seu Novæ Hispaniæ, Ludovicianæ, N. Angliæ, Carolinæ, Virginiæ, Pensylvaniæ, Necnon Insvlarvm Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali

Date: 1770
Description: Map of North America from the Great Lakes to the northern portion of South America. It shows cities, Native American land, mountains, swamps, lakes, rivers...

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