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H.W. Elliott and Capt. J.W. Collins, Hand-line dory cod fishing on the Grand Bank

Represents a romanticized view of fishing that masked the reality of the commercial/industrial fishing business in cape cod. This view helped attract…

Robert Copeland, Boston: Map, 1872

General Plan for Enlarging and Improving the City of Boston

...?, Muddy Run on a Tuesday, 2018

The flooding creek on Stahl Lane

[New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872, Chappaqua Farm, Westchester County, N.Y.: The residence of the Hon. Horace Greeley, 1872

1 print : lithograph.

Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733, Nouvelle Hollande (à présent Nouvelle-York), Nouvelle-Angleterre, et une partie de la Virginie, 1659-1733

Van der Aa, a publisher of several early 18th-century atlases, based his 1729 map of New York and New England on a 1671 map by Arnoldus Montanus. The…

Aaron Carapella, Tribal Nations Map

This map represents the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of tribal nations that existed across what is now Canada and the "lower 48" of…

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri, Map of the World, Istakhri, 9th century?

Map of the world from the earliest of the KMMS Ottoman Cluster, 878/1473, Sulemaniye Camii Kutuphanesi, Istanbul, A.S. 2971a, fol. 3a.

Tags: coastal, medieval

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري) (also Estakhri, Persian: استخری‎, i.e. from the Iranian city of Istakhr, b. - d. 957 AD [346AH][1]) was a Persian medieval geographer in medieval Islam and traveler of the 10th century., Map of the Persian Gulf by Estakhri, 8-9thC

8-9thC map of the Persian Gulf

Tags: coastal, early modern, Persian Gulf

Adilson Taxiromyo Tapirapé, Tapirapé (Tapirape), Map of Tapi'itãwa village and its surroundings, 2000

Tapi'itawa, Terra Indígena Urubu Branco, Santa Terezinha Municipality; Northeast Mesoregion, North Araguaia Microregion; Mato Grosso State,…

Adilson Taxiromyo Tapirapé, Tapirapé (Tapirape), Map of Tapi'itãwa village and its surroundings

Tapi'itawa, Terra Indígena Urubu Branco, Santa Terezinha Municipality; Northeast Mesoregion, North Araguaia Microregion; Mato Grosso State,…

American Bank Note Company Ltd., Ottawa, Canadian imperial stamp (1898), 1898

Postage stamp that shows the extent of the British empire. Result of an imperial conference on postage at which Canada argued for an imperial system…

Tags: Canada, communications, empire, global

Andree, Richard, Colonization of West Africa

Three color maps with inset. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Show settlements, colonial boundaries, etc. Contents: The Slave coast -- The…

Tags: Slavery

Anonymous, Drawn plan of property of Mr. West in Rupert Street, Princess Street, &c. with list of tenants and rents paid, 1788

Plan of an estate in Piccadilly with each lot numbered for reference. The table next to the plan lists tenants living in rented accommodations in the…

Tags: 18th century, London, property

Antonio Giovanni Magini, Nova Francia et Canada, 1607

Uncolored engraved double page map of Canada. Shows cities, towns, landmarks, rivers, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes…

Tags: Canada, seventeenth century

Antonio Peireira, Amtonio, 1545

This map is one of the earliest to show the results of Spanish exploration of North and South America. Francisco de Orellana's expedition of 1539 to…

Arbuckle Brothers, Maine and Michigan, Arbuckles' Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America (1889), 1889

4 maps (cards) to a page. All in full color with map surrounded by representative scenes from each state. Opposite each page of map cards are notes…

Tags: iconography, Maine, Michigan, nineteenth century

Ascribed to Ralph Agas, but this is probably wrong., Civitas Londinum: Agas Map (Map of Early Modern London), 1561

The Agas map as it is shown in context of the Map of Early Modern London project. Civitas Londinum is a bird's-eye view of London first printed from…

Tags: 16th century, gazetteer, London, Map of Early Modern London

Atlas Larousse Illustre, Plan de Paris., Librairie Larousse, 1900

Map of Paris found in the Atlas Larousse Illustre and created by Larousse. The map is a detailed map of Paris in 1900. Includes primary monuments and…

Bain News Service, publisher, Mrs. H. Oelrich's, Newport, 1910-1915

Photograph shows "Rosecliff," the mansion owned by Hermann and Tessie Oelrich in Newport, Rhode Island.

Baptista Boazio, The Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and Barkes wherin weare gotten the Townes of St. Iago: Sto. Domingo, Cartagena and St. Augustines ... Newlie come forth by Baptista B., 1589

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage of 1585, including the Atlantic Ocean, parts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.…

Tags: Francis Drake, New World, sixteenth century