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Maps (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection. The term may also refer to similar depictions of other planets, suns, other heavenly bodies, or areas of the heavens. Maps are typically depicted on a flat medium, such as on paper, a wall, or a computer screen. For similar depictions on a sphere, see "globes (cartographic spheres)."

Found in 248 Collections and/or Records:

Florida et regiones vicinae, 1630

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-016
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains 26 maps of the New World, dating 1541-1778, which illustrate the progression of European geographic knowledge about Virginia and North America from the 16th through the 18th centuries

Dates: 1630

George Washington's land at Mount Vernon Fairfax coy Virginia. As it was & as it is, 1859

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 33
Identifier: 2017-SC-021
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1859

George Washington’s map of his Mount Vernon Estate, drawn by him in 1793 and based on his own surveys, 1945

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 36
Identifier: RP-1012b MAP-5447/n
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1945

Historic map collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-HMPC
Scope and Contents

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1675-1971

Isle St. Christophe ou St. Kitts [Set of thirteen folding maps of the Caribbean], 1779

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-039
Description

Shows parishes, settlements, bays, anchorages, topography and shoals.

Dates: 1779

Isle St. Vincent [Set of thirteen folding maps of the Caribbean], 1778

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-034
Description

Shows Carib lands, parishes, settlements, bays, anchorages, and topography.

Dates: 1778

Johnson's Georgetown and the city of Washington: the capital of the United States of America, 1862

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 36
Identifier: RP-481, MAP-3875
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1862

Karte von dem Ostlichen-Stucke von Neu Franckreich oder Canada in America : besonders aber Acadia und Neu Schottland, 1761

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-163
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1761

La Barbade, 1779

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section: 3
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-040
Description

Shows parishes, towns, bays, anchorages, topography and shoals

Dates: 1779

La Grenade : divisée par paroisses [Set of thirteen folding maps of the Caribbean], 1778

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-036
Description

Shows parishes, settlements, bays, anchorages, topography and shoals.

Dates: 1778

La Jamaique [Set of thirteen folding maps of the Caribbean], 1778

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-035
Description

Shows parishes, towns, settlements, roads, rivers, bays, anchorages, shoals and topography.

Dates: 1778

L'Amerique divisée en septentrionale et méridionale, subdivisée en ses principales parties, dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, 1783

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 2
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-055
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1783

L'Amerique divisée en ses principaux États, 1788

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-050
Description This general map of the Americas, produced in Paris in 1788, depicts the political divisions in North America just after the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. The Treaty effectively ended the American Revolutionary War. The United States is comprised of land east of the Mississippi River, while Great Britain controls Canada and Spain controls Louisiana, Mexico, Florida and western North America. Also depicted is a large inset of the Canadian Arctic, and another two insets of Caribbean...
Dates: 1788

L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou se remarquent les Etats Unis, 1783

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-053
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1783

Lauff des flusses St. Laurentzi von Quebec bis an den See Ontario : 2. bladt, 1760?

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-164
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1760?

L'isthme de l'Acadie, Baye du Beaubassin, en Anglois Shegnekto, environs du Fort Beausejour, 1755

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-114
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1755

LʼAmérique Septentrionale et Méridionale divisée suivant ses différens pay, 1792

 Item
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-143
Description This general map of the Americas was produced by the firm of Vaugondy. Gilles Robert de Vaugondy was the leading French globemaker of the 18th century, and was appointed geographer to Louis XV in 1734. Like "L'Amerique divise?e en ses principaux Etats" by Lattre and Bonne from 1788, this map shows the new boundaries of North America as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. The newly created United States, along with Spanish lands in the south are clearly delineated. This may be the fourth...
Dates: 1792

Map, John Augustine Washington II' s part of Mount Vernon, 1831 May 10

 Item — Box 89 OVERSIZE, Folder: 1831.05.10
Identifier: RM-10; MSS-2013
Scope and Contents

D. 2 pages. Labeled "A Map of Mount Vernon,"--gives boundary lines of J.A.W.'s part of estate--also shows parts held by Bush. C. Washington and heirs of Bushrod Jr.-- Survey made by James M. Brown, Deputy Sur. of Jefferson Cty., May 10th 1831. Silked. Some corrections made in 1845. A map and survey labeled "A Map of Mount Vernon" and docketed "Platt +c. of Mr. John A. Washington's part of Mount Vernon, 1225 acres."

Dates: 1831 May 10

[Map of Florida, Carolina, and the Gulf Coast], 1760?

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-159
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1760?

Map of Nova Scotia, or Acadia : with the islands of Cape Breton and St. John's, from actual surveys, 1768

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 4
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-127
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1768

[Map of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers] ; Franzosische see kusten von Provence zwischen Marseille und Toulon : Cotes maritimes en Provence entre Marseille et Toulon, 1760?

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-160
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1760?

Map of the British plantations on the continent of America, 1737

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-017
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains 26 maps of the New World, dating 1541-1778, which illustrate the progression of European geographic knowledge about Virginia and North America from the 16th through the 18th centuries

Dates: 1737

Map of the province of New York, reduc’d from the large drawing of the province, compiled from actual surveys by order of his Excellency Willion Tryon Efq. Captain General & Governor of the fame, by Claude Joseph Sauthier; to which is added New-Jersey, from the topographical observations of C.J. Sauthier & B. Ratzer, 1776

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 35
Identifier: M-181
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1776

Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, 1794 July 16

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 37
Identifier: RP-643, MAP-4350
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1794 July 16

Map, Plan of apple orchard at Mount Vernon, 1871

 Item — Box 89 OVERSIZE, Folder: 1871.00.00
Identifier: 2019-SC-031
Scope and Contents

Manuscript plan of Mount Vernon titled "Old apple orchard planted in 1871 - with pears, peaches +c." Includes a key, labeling the Mount Vernon mansion and all its outbuildings as they appeared in the late 1800s.

Dates: 1871

Map, Plan of operations of General Washington against the King's troops in New Jersey, 1777 April 15

 Item — Box 88 OVERSIZE, Folder: 1777.04.15
Identifier: RP-2574; MAP-6942
Scope and Contents

Map, "Plan of the Operations of General Washington against The Kings Troops in New Jersey, from the 26th of December 1776 to the 3rd January 1777 by William Faden." London, Published according to Act of Parliament 15th April 1777 by Wm Faden, Corner of St Martins Lane, Charing Cross.

Dates: 1777 April 15

Map, Virginia and Maryland, 1675-1699

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 37
Identifier: RP-643, MAP-4349
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

Dates: 1675-1699

Neuester und acurater plan der weltberuhmten Englischen berg festung Gibraltar auf der Spitze von Spanien : derer wercher meertiefung [p. p.] welche seit 1779 von dem Spanischen General Lascy mit 20 battalions und 12. escadrons zu land und einer Spanischen flotte zu meer fruditloss bloquirt und belagertworden, 1780

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 5
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-188
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.

Dates: 1780