North and Central America
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
America Septentrionalis, 1649
Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 15
Identifier: 39.608
Translated Title
North America Description This map depicts North, Central, and South America with California detached from the mainland. Inscribed in type in Latin, "California, a prioribus Geographis semper habita suit quedam para Contineus atcepts per Hollandes ab Hispanis tabula quaedam Geographica compertum essinsulam ebe et continers ubi larissima est geo leucas A. Cap. Mendecino nero nsq, ad C.S. Luce repertum est teslibus tabula predicta et Francisco...
Dates:
1649
Americae Nova Tabula, 1969
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3927.31
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
Transcript (DCI)
A New Map of America
Descriptive Title
A book of old maps delineating American history
Transcript (DCI)
Septentrionalißimas Americæ partes, Goenlandiam puta Islandiā et adjacentes, quod Americæ tabulæ commodé comprehendi non potuerint, peculiari hac tabella Spectatoribus exhibendas duximus,
Dates:
1969
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1570
Item — Drawer MC-2, Folder: Map 3
Identifier: 3965.569
Translated Title
A New Representation of America, or the New World Transcript (DCI) Hic uspiam insulas esle auro dissites nonnulli noluntHe due insule infortunate sunt dicte a Magellano, qud nec homines nee victui apta haberentNova Guinea, Andrea at Corsalus Florent: videtur eā sub nomine Terre Piccinnacoli designarePorto real ad quem Galli mercatum nauigantPatagonum Regio. ubi incole sunt...
Dates:
1570
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
Chart of the Caribbean Sea, circa 1740
Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 31
Identifier: 3976.592
Description
From catalog info:Caribbean AreaSpanish Cartogtapher, 18th CenturyScale: 1:3,500,000Probably drawn by the Spanish Royal School of Navigation in Cadiz, Spain, ca.1740.Portolan, chart drawn on vellum with black ink; has grid markings on north, west, & south. Margins hand colored red, green, black in 12 parts, Spanish plave names.The delineation of the shoreline for Central and South America coasts seems fairly reasonable for its time. The Caribbean Islands are...
Dates:
circa 1740
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
Map of Mexico, or New Spain, Louisiana, and part of California, 1717
Item — Drawer E-11, Folder: Map 21
Identifier: 3976.709
Description
From Map Card
Herman Moll, (d.1732), Geographer
J. Nutt, London, 1717
Scale: 1:20,000,000
See Phillips Atlases, Vol. 1, p. 312 (Entry #557, vol.5 p.[7962]).
Hargrett Collection, p.339
Dates:
1717
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, 1675
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.161
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
A Most Recent Map of the Entire World
Descriptive Title
Atlas Manitumus
Dates:
1675
Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, 1666
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.168
Translated Title
Descriptive Title
A New and Most Accurate Map of the World
Descriptive Title
de Zee-Atlas
Dates:
1666
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan, 1663
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.74
Descriptive Title
Atlas Maion (Blau Atlas), Volume XII
Dates:
1663