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Deffaite des Yroquois au Lac Champlain

Date: 1609
Description: Illustration of an elevated view of a battle between Iroquois tribe and French on the banks of river. The Iroquois are unclothed and armed with bows and ar...
Map or Atlas

Carte Geographique de la Nouvelle Franse en Son Vray Moridia

Date: 1612
Description: Map of New France, the area that is now eastern Canada and north eastern United States, showing lakes, rivers, and landforms. The locations of several Nati...
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

La Mer de Nort où Sont la Nle. France, la Floride, la Nle. Espagne, les Isles et la Terre-Ferme d'Amerique.

Date: 1679
Description: Decorative and detailed map of the eastern half of North America. Regions, cities, colonies, Native America land, rivers, lakes and some nautical features ...
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

Carte Particuliere de l'Amerique Septentrionale: Ou sont Compris le Destriot de Davids, le Destroit de Hudson, &c.: Dressé sur les Relations les plus Nouvelles

Date: 1698
Description: A sea chart of Hudson's Bay, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic. This map shows rhumb lines extending from various points including two compass roses. Coas...
Map or Atlas

Father Hennepin's Map of the Upper Lakes

Date: 1697
Description: Father Hennepin's map in French of the upper lakes.
Print

Pocahontas Is Visited by Her Brothers

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement in which the brothers of Pocahontas visit her.
Map or Atlas

Land en volk-ontdekking in't noorder gedeelte van America

Date: 1673
Description: P. Marquette en Joliet, gedan in't jaar 1673.
Print

The Abduction of Pocahontas by Captain Argall

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

French Arrive at Port Royal

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

Fourth Voyage of Columbus; Battle in Jamaica against Francisco Poraz

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Christopher Columbus' fourth voyage, 1502-1504.
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...
Print

Chicahominys Become "New Englishmen"

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614. The Chickahominy tribe's proximity to Jamestown meant they had early contact with the English....
Print

Captain John Smith Taken Prisoner by the French during a Storm at Sea

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, 1615.
Print

Algonquian Indians massacre Virginia settlers in 1622

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement, 1622, purporting to show the massacre of 347 settlers by Openchancanough and his alliance of tribes in the Jamestown area.
Print

Constructing Boats

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587.
Print

English and Mermaids

Date: 1655
Description: Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids.
Print

Columbus Departs Spain

Date: 1655
Description: Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492.

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