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Charles Morris, A Plan of the town of St. Andrew’s (1785), 1785

"Model town" plan for the Loyalist settlement of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.

"A PLAN of the TOWN of St ANDREWS Situated at the Head of…

Tags: eighteenth century, empire, Loyalists, New Brunswick

Charles Morris, Done by order of His excellency Montagu Wilmot, Esq. Governor and Commander in Chief of Nova Scotia, 1764

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Depths shown by soundings.

Chez N. de Fer, Map of the World or General Map of the Earth, 1700

Chez Pierre Van der Aa, La Floride, 1714

Full color map of Southern States. Covers part of Mexico, New Mexico, Texas, and Florida as far North as Illinois and Philadelphia, includes also the…

Chris Lund, National Film Board, Trans-Canada Highway (1952), 1952

Couple consulting a road map in front of the Trans-Canada highway sign, intersection of highways 15 & 17, Ottawa, Ontario (July 1952). NFB still by…

Tags: Canada, highways, twentieth century

Christopher Saxton, Atlas of the Counties of England and Wales
Map 2: Sussex, Middlesex, & Kent, 1590?

The maps were drawn by Christopher Saxton and engraved by a variety of individuals, 1574-8.

Christopher Wren, architect
John Rocque, draughtsman, A Plan for Rebuilding the City of London, After the Great Fire in 1666, but Unhappily Defeated by Faction, 1758

This is a reduced version of Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire which destroyed seven-eighths of the city.

This…

Tags: 17th century, London, urban planning

Cincinnati : Engraved & published by Doolittle & Munson,, A new map of Iowa : accompanied with notes by W. Barrows, 1845

Also shows territory occupied by Native American tribes. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Includes ill. Available also through the…

Colton & Co., Colton's township road map of western Connecticut : including Litchfield & Fairfield counties, and the adjoining country., 1886

Colton, G.W., New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Id., 1856

Colton, J.H., City and County of New-York, 1886

A topographical map of the city, county and adjacent country of New-York in 1886.

Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845, Captain Cook Cast Away on Cape Cod, 1802

A painting of a wrecked ship off the coast of Cape Cod.

Cotton Mather, An Exact Mapp of New England and New York (1702), Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 1702 (based on 1685 map)

Recognized as the first 18th century map of New England, this map was used to illustrate Cotton Mather's famous history of the Bay Colony, "Magnalia…

Tags: eighteenth century, New England, seventeenth century

Currier & Ives.
New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St., c1876.

, The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 22nd 1620
, 1876

Long Island sound, Currier and Ives, 1869

Pictorial depiction of Long Island sound, showing the lack of industrialization and emphasis on recreation/boating/nature.

Currier and Ives, Steamboats Passing at Midnight - On Long Island Sound
, 1872-74

painting of scene on Long Island Sound

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington (DC), District of Columbia), New York Correspondence New York, 07-20-1846

Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann, Rhode Island, 1797

From the Ebeling-Sotzmann Atlas Von Nordamerika. The Atlas was to accompany Ebeling's seven volume Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika, die…

Darcy L. Hitesman, I sent a bird into the air... he didn't find any, anywhere, 1965

Poster on air pollution

David Booth, The Tate Gallery by Tube, 1987

The Tate Gallery by Tube, by David Booth of the agency Fine White Line, 1987