Southwest -- The Southwest
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\Authorities\Place Types\natural physical world\social & economic geography concepts (BM)\region (general)\
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, 1824
Item — Drawer MC-5, Folder: 447
Identifier: 3916.180
Description
This map is in two sections.
Dates:
1824
A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi, 1721
Item — Case MC-2, Folder: Map 24
Identifier: 39.557
Scope and Contents
This map contains depictions of Louisiana territory and the surrounding areas, such as Florida, Carolina and as north as the Great Lakes. This map also depicts areas near Louisiana as inhabited by Indigenous peoples, such as the Apache and the Padoucas tribes. Inscribed in type, "The Landing Place of Fyrnand Soto in 1539" in middle on recto; Inscribed in type, "Explanation: [house] Habitations of the Indians [asterisk] Promiscuous Nations [plus sign] Nations destroyed [snake emblem] Course...
Dates:
1721
A Map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico Showing the Great Western Prairies, 1842 or 1844
Item — Drawer MC-7, Folder: Map 148
Identifier: 3926.802
Description
Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer.From catalog info:Indian Territory/Western United StatesJosiah Gregg (1806-1850)Scale: 1:3,500,000Atlas plate #29 from Sidney E. Morese & Samuel Breese Cerographic Atlas of the United States, 1842, 32 maps. This map also appears in Josiah Gregg's book, Comerese of the Prairies, 1850, facing p.58.Phillips Atlases, vol.1, p.773 (entry #1383).Phillips Maps p.332. ...
Dates:
1842 or 1844
An Accurate Map of Louisiana and the Territory in Dispute between the English and French, 1732 - 1762
Item — Drawer E-11, Folder: Map 43
Identifier: 3976.555
Description
From catalog info:
G. Rollos (fl. 1754-89) English Engraver.
London: The British Magazine [1760?]
Scale: 1:7,000,000
Not located in Phillips
Dates:
1732 - 1762
Article "Exhibition of Western Paintings by W. R. Leigh" at the Grand Central Art Galleries, early 20th century
Item — Folder 492: [Barcode: 127.492]
Identifier: 5327.277.6
Description
Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed] EXHIBITION OF WESTERN PAINTINGS BY W. R. LEIGH On Tuesday, January 11, the Grand Central Art Galleries, 15 Vanderbilt Avenue, will open a large one-man show of recent works by William R. Leigh, who is the one living member of that trio of great American artists — the other two being of course Remington and Charles Russell — who have achieved fame as delineators of the...
Dates:
early 20th century
Carte des États-Unis d’Amérique, 1830
Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 117
Identifier: 3976.554
Translated Title
Description
Map of the United States of America
Description
From catalog info:
U.S./Canada/Mexico
Thierry, French Engraver
Paris: [1830]
Scale: 1:15,400,000
Atlas plate no.75 from Geographie Moderne.
Shows Louisiana and Oregon Territory as part of U.S. Oklahoma, shown as part of Arkansas Territory.
Not found in Phillips
Dates:
1830
Gray's Atlas Map of Indian Territory [Oklahoma], 1872
Item — Drawer MC-9, Folder: Map 236
Identifier: 3926.744
Transcript (DCI)
Entered according to Act of Congree in the year 1872 by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.South eastern point of Pan HandleBoundary claimed by the State of TexasCeded to the United States by the Choctaws and Chikasaws by Treaty April 28th 1866Ceded to the United States by the Seminoles March 21st 1866Ceded to the United States by the Creeks June 14th 1867...
Dates:
1872
Indian Territory, 1878
Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 261
Identifier: 3926.745
Description
From catalog info:
Oklahoma (Indian Territory)
Mitchell, Samuel Augustus (179[0]-1868)
Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, 1878.
Atlas plate #90 probably from Mithcell's New Atlas of America... 47 col. maps
Reverse page has map f Colorado.
Scale: 1:1,500,000.
Phillips Atlases vol. 1, p.613, entry #1183.
Dates:
1878
Indian Territory, 1869
Item — Drawer MC-9, Folder: Map 465
Identifier: 39.365
Collection Overview
From the Collection:
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Peter Perkins Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws, (1806-1881) was one of the persons selected by the Choctaws in 1828 to survey the southeast section of Indian Territory, the land they had chosen for their home when they were forced to leave Mississippi. Peter Pitchlynn's father was John Pitchlynn, a white man and interpreter for the United States Government, who had married a Choctaw woman of the famous Folsom family. Peter...
Dates:
1869
Indian Territory [Oklahoma] with Part of the Adjoining State of Kansas, 1866
Item — Drawer MC-6, Folder: Map 208a
Identifier: 3926.660 a
Description
From catalog info:
Engineer Bureau, War Dept.
Scale: 1:1,500,000.
Map annotated and colored.
Not in Phillips Maps
Hargrett Catalog, p.344.
Dates:
1866