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Florida

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

A new and correct chart of the coast of East Florida, and part of West Florida and Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Florida or Cannel of Bahama, Bahama Islands or Lucayos, Bahama Banks and Martyrs, with the soundings, roks, banks, currents, shoals & nautical remarks, composed from a great number of new actual surveys and other original materials, regulated and corrected by astronomical observations, 1784

 Item — Closed Stacks, Drawer: 32
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-105
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
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

Carte de la Louisiane, Maryland, Virginia, Caroline, Georgie, avec une partie de la Floride, 1758

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 7, Section: 2
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-010
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: 1758
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles : du cours et des environs de la Riviere de Mississipi [sic], dressée sur ungrand nombre de memoires principalemt. sur ceux de M.rs d'Iberville et le Sueur, 1703

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 7, Section: 2
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-013
Scope and Contents

"Europeans had a more precise understanding of North America and the Caribbean by the early 18th century. Guillaume De L’Isle drew on earlier French expeditions into the continental interior to create the first accurate map of the Mississippi River. His use of color falsely implies fixed borders between competing European and indigenous peoples." -- Mapping the “New World”: Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection

Dates: 1703
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

Chart of the south end of east Florida and Martiers, 1771

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 6, Section: 3
Scope and Contents De Brahm concentrated his surveying efforts on the east coast of Florida, from St. Augustine south to the Keys. This chart of the southern tip of east Florida was included in the English edition of The Atlantic Pilot, along with a chart of the Gulf Stream and a map of the ancient Florida peninsula. De Brahm's meticulous hydrographic survey work is evident in this chart, with its numerous soundings, outlines of shoals, and inclusion of anchoring places. These surveys were eventually used by...
Dates: 1771
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection

Florida called by ye French Louisiana, 1728

 Item — Drawer 122 : L : 3, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-SC-024-015
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: 1728
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

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
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2020-SC-024, Paul Stevens map collection

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
Found in: Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon / 2019-SC-034, Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War 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
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