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| Date: | 1769 |
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| Description: | Manuscript map. Scale: about 80 British statue miles to 1 inch. |
| Date: | 1776 |
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| Description: | In French: "Partie Occidentale du Canada et septentrionale de la Louisiane avec une partie de la Pensilvanie." A map showing graticule and six European sca... |
| Date: | 1798 |
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| Description: | Uncolored. No scale. One of the earliest maps to show the proposed division of the northwest territory into states. |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | From "A map of the British and French dominions in North American with the roads, distances, limits, and extent of the settlements". |
| Date: | 1733 |
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| Description: | From "A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto". This is the Wisconsin and Minnesota section. |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored. Paris: 1755. Scale [ca. 1:3,000,000]. |
| Date: | 1757 |
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| Description: | The Canadian Lakes. Scale [ca. 1:6,500,000]. Paris: 1757. |
| Date: | 1778 |
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| Description: | This Italian map from 1778 depicts the upper portion of the Old Northwest. Rivers and lakes are identified and relief, real and imagined, is depicted picto... |
| Date: | 1785 |
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| Description: | Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th... |
| Date: | 02 01 1793 |
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| Description: | Text in the upper right corner reads, "A Map of The Western Part of the Territories belonging to the United States of America. Drawn from the best authorit... |
| Date: | 1760 |
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| Description: | This map shows lakes, rivers, forts, settlements, and Native American tribal territory. The southern boundary of the Hudsons Bay Company is labeled. Relief... |
| Date: | 1710 |
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| Description: | A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region up to Baffin's Bay in Northern Canada. This is possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit... |
| Date: | 1709 |
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| Description: | Map of North America, showing a few of the largest settlements, regions, islands, and a few rivers. The Great Lakes are depicted, but over-sized, and Calif... |
| Date: | 1719 |
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| Description: | Map of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence river showing French and English cities and villages, trading posts, Indian villages and tribes, portages, for... |
| Date: | 1766 |
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| Description: | Map of the north western hemisphere using sinusoidal projection to show the curvature of the earth. It labels regions, cities, Native American land, island... |
| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from Lake Ontario through the Great Plains, and James Bay to Illinois. It shows rivers, lakes, and mountains in great detail, and labe... |
| Date: | 11 24 1781 |
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| Description: | Map showing New York, New England, and south eastern Canada. Boundaries, ports, and a few cities are shown, but the map focuses on regions, Native American... |
| Date: | 1745 |
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| Description: | Landmark map of the Great Lakes region and one of the most advanced depictions of the lakes and surrounding areas for its time. It is the first map to intr... |
| Date: | 1783 |
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| Description: | Map of eastern Canada and part of America, with an inset map of the Great Lakes region in the lower left corner. It shows boundaries, cities, settlements, ... |
| Date: | 1799 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from the Great Lakes region to Baffins Bay. It shows settlements, Native American land, cities, trading houses and forts, mountains, a... |
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