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Scope Note: Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent) .... North and Central America (continent) (P) Hierarchy of United States (nation) ........ United States (nation) (P) Hierarchy of Louisiana Purchase (general region) ............ Louisiana Purchase (general region) (P)

Found in 10 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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Carte de l'Amérique et des Mers Voisines, 1763

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.76
Translated Title

Map of America and Neighboring Seas



Descriptive Title

La Petit Atlas Manitime, Volume I

Dates: 1763
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Chart of the Gulf of Mexico and Cuba, circa 1740

 Item — Drawer MC-1, Folder: Map 30
Identifier: 3976.593
Description From catalog info:Probably drawn by Spanish Royal School of Navigation, Cadiz, Spain, ca. 1740Scale: Two inches equals one degree, 1:2,500,000Portolan chart drawn on vellum with black ink; compass rose in red, blue, & greenFairly accurate chart for shoreline delineation for its time. The Island of Cuba seems to be poorly defined and 3/4 of island to east of Havanna is not shown. The general shoreline around the Gulf of Mexico is in good alignment from the Yucatan...
Dates: circa 1740
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

General map of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, 1794

 Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 69
Identifier: 3976.655
Description From catalog info:S.E. U.S.A New and General Map of the Southern Dominions Belonging to the United States of Ameria, via Norht Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia:... LA & FLLaurie, Robert (1755-1836) & Whittle, James (d.1818)Colored boundaries.London:Laurie & Whittle, no.53, Fleet Street, 1794Scale: one inch equals 30 miles; 1:3,000,000.Two insets: Charlestown & St. Augustine.$17.50 in pencil on upper right portion of sheet. Plate no.38 on...
Dates: 1794
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Louisiana, 1804

 Item — Drawer E-12, Folder: Map 80
Identifier: 3926.257
Descriptive Title

Map of Louisiana Territory



Description

From catalog info:
Samuel Lewis, Cartographer
Henry Schenk Tanner, Engraver
Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co. 1804
1:15,000,000
Atlas plate from Arrowsmith & Lewis' New & Elegant General Atlas... 63 maps, 1804
Shows drainage patterns, place names, some Indian Tribes
Phillips Atlases VI p.421 (entry #702, #55)






Dates: 1804
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

Map of North America with the settlements of Virginia and the course of Ohio, 1755

 Item — Case MC-2, Folder: Map 38
Identifier: 3976.579
Description

From catalog info:
North America
Jean d'Anville (1697-1782)
A map of North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville. Improved with the Back Settlements of Virginia and Course of Ohio.
London: Thomas Jefferys, Publisher, 1755
Scale: 1:6,000,000
Shows British Colonies & boundaries, towns, forts, Indian Tribes, streams
Hargrett Catalog, p.34[0?]
Phillips, Maps, p.576.
Tooley's Dictionary, p.335.








Dates: 1755
Found in: Gilcrease Museum/Helmerich Center for American Research / Gilcrease Museum Map Collection

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