British Empire
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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 New & Accurate Map of the Provinces of North & South Carolina, Georgia, &cc., 1752
Item — Case MC-2, Folder: Map 35
Identifier: 39.646
Description
From catalog info:Southeast United StatesEmaual Bowen (ca.1720-1767), English PublisherA new and accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georgia, etc., drawn from late surveys and regulated from astronomical observations by Emanuel Bowen (map publisher).This map depicts the provinces located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. This map also includes the area inhabited by the Cherokee Nation, as well as the Appalachian Mountains,...
Dates:
1752
A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, 1764
Item — Case MC-2, Folder: Map 48
Identifier: 3976.654
Description
From catalog info:
Southeast U.S.
Bowen, Emanuel (ca. 1720-1767)
London:(1764)
Scale:1:2,500,000; bar. English & French Leauges 20 to a Degree. 1 inch = 11 units.
[In Harris (John). Navigatium. atque itineratium bibliotheca, or, a completed collection of voyages and travels. fol. London, for T. Osborne, 1764 v. 2 opp. p. 323].
Hargrett Catalog, p.340 under 1764.
Phillips, Maps, p.295
Tooley's Dictionary, p.74.
Dates:
1764
A Sketch of the River Perdido, 1767
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 53
Identifier: 3976.566
Description
From catalog info:
Pensacola, Flordia
Unknown British Cartographer
British MMS Map - colored
Scale: one inch equals 2 miles
Shows Pensacola, Campbell town, Indian camps, iron mine, road to mobile, swamps
Dates:
1767
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
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
An Accurate Map of North & South Carolina with their Indian Frontiers (Sheet 1), 1775
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 56
Identifier: 3976.553
Description
From catalog info:N. & S. Carolina/GeorgiaHenry Mouzon (1741-1807)An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina... from actual surerys. Two insets: Port Royal and Charlston.London: Robert Sayer & John Bennett, 1775.Scale: 1:530,000Atlas plate from William Faden's North American Atlas, 1777, 27 mapsShows Cherokee Indian villages, Upper Creek Indian lands, towns, forts, roads, rivers.Phillips Atlases, vol.1, p.657 (Entry...
Dates:
1775
Carte de l'Amérique et des Mers Voisines, 1763
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.76
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
Map of America and Neighboring Seas
Descriptive Title
La Petit Atlas Manitime, Volume I
Dates:
1763
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
Eleven page document containing observations made during a 1775 journey from St. Augustine to what is now Tallahassee, Florida, 1794
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 87.1]
Identifier: 4026.5845
Description
This letter is from a Dr. Hall to a Mr. Pennant. Folder 1
Dates:
1794