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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Magazine or Periodical

Pictorial Map of Australia

Date: 1938
Description: A colorful pictorial map of Australia, featured on the front and back cover of a special Australian edition of International Trail.
Photograph

James L. Clark, City Health Inspector

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: James L. Clark, Madison city health inspector, shown pointing to a map of Madison marked with X's signifying places with rat infestation.
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The American Soldier, Rifle Regiment Officer

Date: 1976
Description: "A general staff officer stands in the left foreground in the single-breasted blue coat with black herringbone false buttonholes on the chest and cuffs and...
Print

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social Banquet Menu

Date: 1952
Description: Front cover and menu page for a banquet given by the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social to the senior delegates to the fourth reunion of the Inter-Americ...
Print

S.S. Argentina Luncheon Menu

Date: 07 21 1951
Description: Luncheon menu for the S.S. Argentina, with a map of Argentina with spot illustrations for the provinces and featured products or symbols, the coat o...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog for Deering Harvester Company. The headline reads: "Around the World on a Harvester," and features an illustration of men and women ...
Photograph

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Back cover of catalog for Deering Harvester Company. Features an illustration of men, women and children riding on agricultural machinery pulled by horses....
Book or Pamphlet

North American Agricultural Implement and General Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1884
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a globe among clouds. Small oval inset illustrations are of farmers working in fields in Africa, A...
Photograph

Gathering of Men

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of a group of men posing sitting and standing around a table. There are several female nude photographs hanging on the wall behind them.
Map or Atlas

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

Date: 1703
Description: Map of the Golf of Mexico and surrounding countries from the Great Lakes down to the northern most parts of South America. L'Isle labels cities, towns, and...
Map or Atlas

This Map of North America, According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated by your Lordship's Most Humble Servant Herman Moll, Geographer

Date: 1715
Description: One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map, it shows rivers and portages, cities, Indian villages, wind directions, routes...
Map or Atlas

Amérique Septentrionale: Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs, et Divisée Suivant les Differentes Possessions des Européens

Date: 1758
Description: This map of the north-west hemisphere shows the cities, lakes, rivers, mountains, and political borders. In the upper left corner sits a decorative cartouc...
Map or Atlas

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis: Utrumq Hemisphærium Orient. et Occidentale Repræsentans ex IV Mappis Generalibus

Date: 1746
Description: This world map from the German mathematician, historian, and geographer Johann Matthias Hase shows the major cities, islands, and the major political divis...
Map or Atlas

Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula

Date: 1685
Description: A detailed map of the western hemisphere showing cities, settlements, Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Great Lakes, and California as an...
Map or Atlas

Americae Mappa Generalis: Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae Regulas

Date: 1746
Description: Detailed map of the western hemisphere and part of Africa and Europe. Islands, cities, settlements, rivers, lakes, countries, and regions are marked. Mount...
Map or Atlas

Amérique ou Nouveau Continent Dressée sur les Nouvelles Rélations Découvertes et Observations

Date: 1759
Description: Map of North and South America showing regions, colonies, cities and settlements, rivers, lakes, and Native American land. Near the bottom left an inset ma...
Map or Atlas

America Septentrionalis

Date: 1636
Description: Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on...
Map or Atlas

Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Rivière de Missisipi, Découverte par feu Mr. de la Salle

Date: 1713
Description: Map showing the regions explored by Robert de La Salle between 1681 and 1686, as well as the route La Salle, and later Henri Joutel, took, moving north fro...
Map or Atlas

Carte de la Nouvelle France: òu se Voit le Cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi Aujour d'hui S. Louis

Date: 1719
Description: This extremely detailed and ornate map shows the cities, Native American land, mountains, lakes, rivers, and European claims of North America. An inset map...

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