Collection Overview From the Collection: Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: The Gilcrease Cartographic Collection was initially created as a storage designation for maps found in the manuscript collections and for the few original maps purchased during the life of Thomas Gilcrease. From the collections initial humble beginnings, it has continued to grow into am official map collection through additional gifts and purchases. The collection includes atlases, hand drawn maps from the manuscript...

Desription

First official decree issued by Hernán Cortés after the conquest of Mexico Tenochtitlán.

Title/description created by Clevy Lloyd Strout, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Tulsa, 1962.

Translated Title

A Recent and Most Accurate Representation of Florida, a Province of America

Descriptive Title

Early map of the province of Florida

Description

Man holding up a string of fish, with several more fish laid out on a cut tree limb. Attached to a black album page.

Description

Photograph of two men sawing a log with a large hand-saw in the forest. Man on the right is Austin Russell. Attached to black album page with TU2009.39.257.16a on reverse.

Description Hand-bound document written in French, entitled "Relation du Voyage faict en l'annee 1645 au Nom du Roy au pays des Algoumequins dans la Nouvelle France ou Canada, et de la manière de vivre des Sauvages" (Narrative of the Voyage made in the year 1645 in the Name of the King to the country of the Algonquins in New France or Canada, and the manner of living of the savages). Thirty pages in length, signed G.H. at the end of the document. Illustrated with five pen and ink drawings....