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MapAsiento present hordenat a payon les responsions dels pezos e mezures : delahun boch al altre de tots los presents bochs nnomenats los quals son cap e regiment de la mercadoria hordenat … Diagrammatic map of weights and measures in use in 27 Mediterranean and European seaports. Oriented with north to the right. Each port city is represented by a vignette of a prominent local tower and the vignettes are connected by rhumb lines. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (light brown) and watercolors. Includes notes and an aerial view of the walled city of Siena in the upper margin (neck…- Contributor: Domenech, Arnald - Roselli, Piero
- Date: 1563-01-01
- Resource: Image
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Map[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean and connecting seas]. Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines. Does not cover Black Sea. Title devised by cataloguer. Oriented with north to the right (indicated by fleurs-de-lys). Contains 11 compass roses in a circle centered on Sicily, 2 additional roses in Iberia, and rhumb lines connecting all roses and some central points without roses. Manuscript: pen-and-ink (brown) and dark watercolors. LC Nautical charts on…- Date: 1550-01-01
- Resource: Image
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Map[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] Ink on paper. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 50b Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Conserved; 09-82-067.9 1982 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
- Resource: Image
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MapCarte réduite des découvertes des Russes, entre l'Asie et l'Amerique. Prévost ed., 1747. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault- Contributor: Prévost
- Date: 1747-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapThe Russian discoveries from the map published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg. "Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map and Printseller..." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault- Date: 1775-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapDie Challenger-Expedition 21. Dez. 1872 - 27. Juli 1873, und Übersicht der Tiefenmessungen in Nordatlantischen Ocean Depths shown by gradient tints and soundings. LC copy mounted on cloth. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Hellfarth, C. - Perthes, Justus - Petermann, A. (August)
- Date: 1873
- Resource: Image
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MapChart of the Pacific Ocean. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Tanner, Henry Schenck
- Date: 1800-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapA chart of the cruise of the American Arctic Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : in the years 1850 & 51 : fitted out by Henry Grinnell of New York … Shows the ship routes followed by the John Franklin Arctic Expedition of 1846-1861 in the eastern Canadian Arctic islands and along the western coast of Greenland; also shows wind direction indicators along the route lines. Hand colored to emphasize coastlines and intensive coastline search areas. When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 15 separate panels to enable folding. LC…- Contributor: Sherman & Sherman - Welsh, George P. - United States. Hydrographical Office - Grinnell, Henry
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MapA chart of the cruise of the American Arctic Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : in the years 1850 & 51 : fitted out by Henry Grinnell of New York … Shows the ship routes followed by the John Franklin Arctic Expedition of 1846-1861 in the eastern Canadian Arctic islands and along the western coast of Greenland; also shows wind direction indicators along the route lines. Differs from Fillmore map collection item No. 111 primarily in hand coloring. The present map (No. 115) is hand colored blue only on small coastline sections where extensive shore…- Contributor: Welsh, George P. - Sherman & Smith - United States. Hydrographical Office - Grinnell, Henry
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MapChart shewing the North West Passage discovered by H.M. Ship Investigator : also the coast explored in search of Sir J. Franklin by Sir Jas. Ross, 1848 & 49 ... [et al.] Relief shown by hachures. At head of title: C. 6. Includes notes. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. In pencil in upper left corner: 114/160. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 99-87- Contributor: Inglefield, E. A. (Edward Augustus) - Great Britain. Hydrographic Office
- Date: 1853
- Resource: Image
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MapGeneral Map showing the Explorations and Surveys of the Expedition, 1907-09. From Geographical Journal, 1909. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Date: 1909-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapRoute and Surveys of the Southern Journey Party, 1908-09 From Geographical Journal, 1909. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Marshall, Eric (Eric Stewart)
- Date: 1909-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapRoute and Surveys of the South Magnetic Polar Party, 1908-09. From Geographical Journal, 1909. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Shackleton, Ernest Henry - Mawson, Douglas
- Date: 1909-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapChart to illustrate the paper on the drift of the "Endurance". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.- Contributor: Wordie, J. M. (James Mann)
- Date: 1918-01-01
- Resource: Image
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MapMap of the Oregon Territory Relief shown by hachures. Mounted on cloth. Some acid offset on map. Inset: Columbia River, reduced from a survey / made by the U.S. Ex. Ex., 1841. Scale ca. 1:700,000. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 24-Nov.…- Contributor: Wilkes, Charles - Sherman & Smith - Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
- Date: 1844-01-01
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MapAtlas of the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
United States Exploring Expedition Atlas accompanies text volumes of The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition by Charles Wilkes. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy 3 imperfect: Covers missing. Phillips, 3245- Contributor: Wilkes, Charles - United States Exploring Expedition
- Date: 1844
- Resource: Copy 3 - Image - 53
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Book/Printed MaterialReport upon United States Geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian A. A. Humphreys, chief of engineers until June 1879. Succeeded by H. G. Wright. Date of publication for vol. 2. Astronomy and barometric hypsometry: 1877 (t.p.) Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga10 2004-03-02- Contributor: Wheeler, George M. (George Montague) - Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) - Wright, Horatio Gouverneur - Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson)
- Date: 1889
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CollectionDiscovery and Exploration This category documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps. Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th century when Europeans were concerned primarily with determining the outline of the continents as they explored and mapped the coastal areas and the major waterways. Also included are 18th and 19th century… -
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ArticleArticles and Essays Articles and Essays The 1562 Map of America Created by Diego Gutiérrez Recognizing and Naming America: Waldseemüller’s 1507 Map Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg,
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ArticleRecognizing and Naming America: Waldseemüller’s 1507 Map Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries. -
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