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...

Description Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed document on blue paper] BUFFALO HUNT a painting by W. R. LeighThe first impression produced by this painting is of tumult — of tremendous noise and heat and angry flow of weight. One is immediately convinced that a buffalo hunt looked like this, for Mr. Leigh’s command of realistic depiction is complete. The sweating, savage Indians, the wildly struggling herd...

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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 From catalog info:Fkiruda, southeastern United States, Cuba, Bahamas.Three bar scales: Leucarum, Marinarum, and Terrefirium; Scale 1:5,300,000.Frankfort:Theodore de Bry, 1564 (1591)John Wecheli Press; See Narrative of Le Moyne...

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

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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.

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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.