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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:

Sketch of part of the island of Ste. Lucie : computed at about 2500 feet to 1 inch, 1781

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 4
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-180
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: 1781

Sketch of the battle of Hobkirks Hill, near Camden, on the 25th April 1781, 1783

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-050
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

Sketch of the northern frontiers of Georgia extending from the mouth of the river Savannah to the town of Augusta, 1780

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-210x
Description

The map depicts the opening of the British Southern offensive of 1778.

Dates: 1780

Sketch of the position of the British forces at Elizabeth Town Point after their return from Connecticut Farm, in the province of East Jersey : under the command of his excelly. Leiutt. Genl. Knyphausen, on the 8th June 1780, 1784

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 33
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-054
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: 1784

Sketch of the surprise of German Town by the American forces commanded by General Washington October 4th 1777, 1784

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-090
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: 1784

Status of Proposed Piscataway Park, MD. To preserve lands which provide the principle overview from the Mount Vernon Estate and Fort Washington, 1965 January

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 36
Identifier: RP-2136, MAP-6601/a-b
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: 1965 January

Ste. Lucie : d'après les plans levés par les Anglois lors qu'ils le possedoient, 1779

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-042
Description

Shows plantations, roads, settlements, anchorages, shoals and topography.

Dates: 1779

Suite du theatre de la guerre dans l'Amérique Septentrionale y compris le Golfe du Méxique, 1782

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-141
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: 1782

Tabago [Set of thirteen folding maps of the Caribbean], 1779

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-043
Description

Shows divisions, settlements, bays, anchorages, topography and shoals

Dates: 1779

The Accokeek Foundation area. Piscataway Park and Mount Vernon viewshed, 1971 March 15

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 36
Identifier: RP-2138, MAP-6603/a-b
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: 1971 March 15

The ancient Tegesta, now promontory of east Florida, 1771

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 3
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: 1771

The attack and defeat of the American fleet under Benedict Arnold, by the King's fleet commanded by Capt. Thos. Pringle, upon Lake Champlain, the 11th of October, 1776, 1776

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-022
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: 1776

The Caribbee Islands and Guayana, 1776

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 1
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-023
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: 1776

The country twenty five miles round New York, 1776

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section: 4
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-024
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: 1776

The course of Delaware River from Philadelphia to Chester, exhibiting the several works erected by the rebels to defend its passage, with the attacks made upon them by His Majesty's land & sea forces, 1778

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 40
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-080
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: 1778

The Island of Barbados; divided into its parishes, with the roads, paths, &c. according to an actual and accurate survey, 1736?

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 36
Identifier: RP-533, MAP-4058
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: 1736?

The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys, 1777

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-081
Description Bernard Ratzer, a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, prepared a survey of New Jersey in 1769 to assist the Boundary Commission in settling a long standing boundary dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey. London mapmaker William Faden published Ratzer's survey as a finished map in 1777 in his North American Atlas. Published during the American Revolution, the map depicts the area known to George Washington before the Battle of Monmouth, and shows the fortification at Valley...
Dates: 1777

The State of Virginia from the best authorities, 1794

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 37
Identifier: RP-735, MAP-4941
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

The theatre of war in North America, with the roads and a table of the distances, 1776

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-147
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: 1776

The United States of America laid down from the best authorities, agreeable to the Peace of 1783, 1783

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 1
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-051
Description

Shows the 13 states, Louisiana, and parts of Canada and Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Decorative title cartouche.

Dates: 1783

The United States of America with the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, & of Newfoundland, divided with the French : and the Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida according to the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles the 20th of Jany. 1783, 1783

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 33
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-052
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

Théatre de la guerre en Amerique, avec les Isles Antilles : projetté et assujettie aux observations, 1781

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-049
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: 1781

Theatrum belli in America Septentrionali, 1755

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-140
Description

Shows the east coast from the Gulf of the St. Lawrence to the Carolinas, and the interior as far west as the Mississippi Valley. Displayed here is the first state of the map, lacking the inset of Fort Frederick.

Dates: 1755

Theodolite's pattern, shewing the provinces in North America which were in the respective possessions of England, France & Spain, before the war began : and pointing out those which, by the peace, France & Spain have yielded to England, 1763

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 8, Section: 4
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-157
Description Shows territorial possessions in North America after the Treaty of Paris. Includes the satirical "Theodolite's letter to the Botcher's Club in Monmouth Street." The open letter appears to praise the treaty and the 3rd Earl of Bute, who worked on the treaty, while actually pointing out the weaknesses of the territory gained. Theodolite, a scientific instrument used in surveying, likely represented Bute, who collected such instruments. Botchers were menders such as tailor and cobblers, and...
Dates: 1763

To His Excellency Genl. Washington, Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States of America ; this plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down, 1782

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 5
Identifier: 2019-SC-034-049
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: 1782

To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bart., captain general and governour in chief in & over the province of New York & the territories depending thereon in America, chancellor & vice admiral of the same, this plan of the city of New York is most humbly inscribed, 1769?

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 32 - OUT
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-139
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: 1769?

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress, this map of the seat of civil war in America, is respectfully inscribed by his most obedient humble servant, 1775

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-151
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: 1775