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A New Map of Virginia, Mary-Land, and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Date: 1719
Description: Map of Maryland and surrounding states. It shows the boundaries, counties, cities, towns, rivers, and bays. Mountains, forests, and swamps appear pictoria...
Map or Atlas

Partie Méridionale de la Rivière de Missisipi, et ses Environs, Dans l'Amérique Septentrionale

Date: 1718
Description: Map of the Southern portion of North America from New Mexico to Florida and south from Lake Erie. It shows borders, cities, settlements, Native American la...
Map or Atlas

Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississippi]: Dressée sur un Grand Nombre de Mémoires Entrautres sur Ceux de Mr. le Maire

Date: 1718
Description: First edition of L'Isle's landmark map of North America. It covers America from the Rio Grande to the Atlantic Ocean, showing boundaries, the colonies, cit...
Map or Atlas

Carte Contenant le Royaume du Mexique et la Floride: Dressez sur les Meilleures Observations & sur les Mémoires les plus Nouveaux

Date: 1719
Description: Map of North America showing political boundaries, areas of Indian habitation, cities, towns, ports, rivers, mines, and other notable for North America fro...
Map or Atlas

Amerique Septentrionale: Divisée en ses Principales Parties, ou Sont Distingués les vns des Autres les Estats Suivant Qu'ils Appartiennent Presentemẽt aux François, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandois

Date: 1719
Description: Map of North America showing land divisions between France, Spain, England, Sweden, Denmark and Holland. The map is detailed, labeling cities, forts, islan...
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...
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Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Rivière de Missisipi, Découverte par feu Mr. de la Salle

Date: 1713
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...
Map or Atlas

North America: Corrected from the Observation Communicated to the Royal Society at London and the Royal Academy at Paris

Date: 1710
Description: Map of North America showing the European claims, Native American land and villages, rivers, lakes, cities, and notes on explorers, discoveries, and topogr...
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...
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

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...
Classroom Material

Native People of Wisconsin Interactive Resource

Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin'
Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom.
Classroom Material

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition

Teaching Materials
Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin."
Historical Essay

The Fur Trade Era: 1650s to 1850s

A Short History of Wisconsin
Classroom Material

Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 4 description and supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Photograph

Scottish Historical Armorial Flag

Date: 1719
Description: Photograph of a framed Scottish Historical Armorial Flag.
Resource Description

Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.
Historical Essay

Timeline of Wisconsin history, 1700-1749

Learn about the history of Wisconsin between the years 1700-1749.
Historical Essay

The History of Wisconsin Winter Weather

Learn about the first extreme winters in Wisconsin suffered by explorers and settlers in the 17th through 19th centuries, with links to other articles
Historical Essay

Wisconsin's First Thanksgiving

Discover the story of French traders saved from starvation by Ottawa Indians at the headwaters of the Chippewa River in 1659.

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