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Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Subcollections

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Africa described the manners of their habits G. Humble Ano 1626, June 1, 1878

 Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 7
Identifier: 3976.889
Description

From catalog info:
This atlas plate appeared in John Speed's atlas, A Prospect of the most famous parts of the World... Great Britian's Empire. London: George Humble, publisher 1626, 89 maps
This facsimile map published in Harper's Weekly (Supplement, June 1, 1878, pp.442-443)
Scale 1:20,000,000
Healy Map Collection #1
Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p.190 (Entry #442)




Dates: Publication: June 1, 1878
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa Sumtibus Dn Walteri Raleigh, 1585 - 1590

 Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 4
Identifier: 3975.226
Translated Title A Region of America, Now Called Virginia, Discovered for the First Time by the English at the Expense of Sir Walter Raleigh Descriptive Title Early map of the colony of Virginia Transcript (DCI) Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta primum ad Anglis inuenta sumtibus Sir Walter Raleigh, equestris ordinis viri Anno dominae MDLXXXV regni vero Sereniss: nostrae reginae Elisabethae XXVII Hujus vero...
Dates: 1585 - 1590
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Early map of the colony of Virginia, 1612

 Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 5
Identifier: 3926.248
Description From catalog info:Map of Virginia when discovered in 1606 and described by Captain John Smith. This map was reproduced in 1868.7 leagues equal one inch.Graven by William Hole. J. Bares, Oxford, 1612. (Repo-1868).Note in pencil on verso of map. Impression is taken from map of Virginia, 1624 copper plate used for John Smith's General History of Virginia 80(1819) published at Richmond (Virginia). Reproduction made from plate in 1868 by T.H.W. Note in lower...
Dates: 1612
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of The United States Drawn from the most approved Surveys, 1826

 Item — Drawer MC-4, Folder: Map 111
Identifier: 3926.695
Description

From catalog info:
United States
Merchant, G.W., American Engraver, Albany.
Colored.
Publisher: Solomon Schoyer, New York, 1826
Scale: One inch equals 110 miles; 1:7,000,000
Hargrett Catalogs p.341
Tooley, p. 435






Dates: Publication: 1826
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Ptolemy's Map of the World- Geographical Ideas of Africa Seventeen Hundred Years Ago, circa 1477

 Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 1a
Identifier: 3976.892a
Description

From catalog info:
Claudius Ptolemy (87-150) Egyptian Geographer
American Geographic Soc. Text p.910
Harpers Weekly (Nov 17,1877 p. 908)
Healy Map Collection #4 and #5
Phillips Atlases v.1 p.104 (entries #350, #262)




Dates: circa 1477
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / MC.Maps, Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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