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Orbis Typus Universalis World Map

Date: 1513
Description: This exquisite woodcut map is one of the first to show any part of North America. It originally appeared in the 1513 Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geogra...
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Radisson, Pierre, Esprit

Date: 1620 - 1710
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Allouez, Claude, Jean

Date: 1622 - 1689
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Plan Outagamie Palisade Village

Date: 1712
Description: This drawing, based on an 1897 survey, appeared in the 1899 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, accompanying Publius V. Lawson's arti...
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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 ...
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Watson

Date: 1747 - 1847
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Hamilton, Elizabeth (Schuyler)

Date: 1757 - 1854
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A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island: Of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians Comprehending Aquanishuonigy Proper

Date: 1758
Description: This detailed map of north eastern America shows the boundaries, cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, Native American land and towns, and roads from east of t...
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Mitchell, Samuel

Date: 1764 - 1855
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Babcock, Benjamin

Date: 1766 - 1855
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Burel, Lucy

Date: 1773 - 1883
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Mears, James

Date: 1774 - 1864
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Mears, James

Date: 1774 - 1864
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Schindler, Therese

Date: 1775 - 1855
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Wheeler, Polly (Sackett)

Date: 1775 - 1876
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Frazer, William, C.

Date: 1776 - 1838
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Waterman, William

Date: 1776 - ????
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Valley, Antoine

Date: 1777 - 1881
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Ingham, Stephen

Date: 1778 - 1875
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Vroman, Mary

Date: 1778 - 1876
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