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Depictions of Algonquian Individuals

Date: 1616
Description: Illustration of four Algonquian Indians. E depicts a man dressed for combat in wood armor. F shows a woman in her regular dress carrying a child and an ear...
Drawing

Depictions of Algonquian Individuals

Date: 1615
Description: Drawings of four Native Americans. A and C are dressed for combat. B appears to be a woman carrying and nursing an infant, and D is wearing winter garb, in...
Drawing

Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...
Map or Atlas

Nova Virginiae Tabula

Date: 1671
Description: Map of Virginia depicting the discoveries detailed by John Smith in his exploration of the region. It shows Jamestown, Native American tribes and villages,...
Map or Atlas

Canada ou Nouvelle France

Date: 1683
Description: Map of the north east coast of North America showing islands, regions, Native American land, bays, and a few European settlements. The Great Lakes appear i...
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

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

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

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

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

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

World Map

Date: 1625
Description: An illustrated map of the world with captions in Latin. Illustrations include depictions of the seasons and the elements.
Print

Captain John Smith Saved by Pochahontas

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1607.
Print

The Abduction of Pocahontas by Captain Argall

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1610.
Print

How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Indians Fight Invaders

Date: 1655
Description: Battle during the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Vespucci on the Island of Giants, Curacao

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Carib Indians Revolt at Cumana against Dominican Monks

Date: 1655
Description: Girolamo Benzoni (1519-1570) was an Italian from Milan who spent the years 1541-1556 in the New World. His observations of Spanish imperialism were publish...
Print

French Arrive at Port Royal

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Laudonnière Expedition in South Carolina, ca. 1564.
Map or Atlas

Partie occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples; avec la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte etc.

Date: 1688
Description: This map includes vignettes of Amerindian life with text describing geography, culture, and exploration activity, written in French. The Great Lakes, river...

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