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Great Bahama Bank -- Great Bank of the Bahamas

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci Places

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Chart of the Caribbean Sea, circa 1740

 Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 31
Identifier: 3976.592
Description From catalog info:Caribbean AreaSpanish Cartogtapher, 18th CenturyScale: 1:3,500,000Probably drawn by the Spanish Royal School of Navigation in Cadiz, Spain, ca.1740.Portolan, chart drawn on vellum with black ink; has grid markings on north, west, & south. Margins hand colored red, green, black in 12 parts, Spanish plave names.The delineation of the shoreline for Central and South America coasts seems fairly reasonable for its time. The Caribbean Islands are...
Dates: circa 1740

General map of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1794

 Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 69
Identifier: 3976.655
Description From catalog info:S.E. U.S.A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of Ameria, via Norht Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia:... LA & FLLaurie, Robert (1755-1836) & Whittle, James (d.1818)Colored boundaries.London:Laurie & Whittle, no.53, Fleet Street, 1794Scale: one inch equals 30 miles; 1:3,000,000.Two insets: Charlestown & St. Augustine.$17.50 in pencil on upper right portion of sheet. Plate no.38 on...
Dates: 1794