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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)."

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To the right honourable, the Earl of Shelbourne, His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Southern Department : this plan of the colony of Connecticut in North-America is humbly dedicated, 1766

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-135
Description Moses Park, a surveyor from Preston, Connecticut, executed this map in 1766 with the assistance of Asa Spaulding of Norwalk and Samuel Mott of Preston. Displayed here is the second state of the map, which differs from the first state in the collection of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. In this state, an "e" has been added to the name of Shelburne, and "Connecticut R." is seen on the bend of the river above Hadham. Other locational changes have been made in this state as...
Dates: 1766
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

To the rt. honble. the Earl of Halifax, first lord commissioner of trade & plantations, &c &c this chart of Chibucto Harbour, on the coast of Accadia, or Nova Scotia, with the plan of the town of Halifax, 1750

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 1
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-148
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: 1750
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

Virginia, 1636

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-024
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: 1636
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Virginia, 1606-1626

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-025
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: 1606-1626
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Virginia, 1627

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-023
Scope and Contents "From Theodore de Bry’s Grand Voyages, Dreyzehender Theil Americae published by Matheus Merian. This German version of Captain John Smith’s map of Virginia depicts the English colony shortly after Jamestown’s 1607 founding. Powhatan, the principal chief of the indigenous confederacy that dominated the region, presides in the upper left corner. The rivers command our attention. The English expected to settle the interior by following waterways upstream. In time, tobacco plantations worked by...
Dates: 1627
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, nova Descriptio, 1601?

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-026
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: 1601?
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Vorstellung der diversio welche der Enll. Generel Lieutenant Clinton samt dene Generals Vaughan u. Tryon in de Ierseys im Sept. u. Oct. 1777 gemacht hat, 1777?

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 4, Section: 5
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-183
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: 1777?
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

[Yorktown Campaign] Map no 1. Carte Generale de l'isle de New York et des environs. Map no 2. Reconnaissance Geometrique des Ouvrages du Nord de L'isle de New York faite les 21 et 22 Juillet 1781. With an accompanying manuscript, Réflexions Sur L'attaque de Newyork, approximately 1781-1782

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-206x
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: approximately 1781-1782
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection
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