Maps and Atlases
Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Classifications
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America, 1824
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3916.180
Description
This map is in two sections.
Dates:
1824
A Map of Kentucky, 1793
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.90
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...
Dates:
1793
A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi, 1721
Item — Drawer MC-3, 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 — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3926.802
Description
Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer. Transcript (DCI) Waters of Colorado and of CaliforniaA
MAP OF THE
INDIAN TERRITORY
NORTHER TEXAS
AND
NEW MEXICO
Showing the
GREAT WESTERN PRAIRIES
By
JOSIAH GREGGEntered according to Act of Congress in the year 1844 by Sidney E. Morse and Samuel Breesa in the Clerks Office of the Southern District of New YorkNote: The (?) portions are Prairie. The white Timber...
Dates:
1842 or 1844
A New & Accurate Map of the Provinces of North & South Carolina, Georgia, &cc., 1752
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 35
Identifier: 39.646
Description
A 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). Scope and Contents 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, previously known as the...
Dates:
1752
A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, 1764
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3976.654
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...
Dates:
1764
A New Map of the Cherokee Nation with the Names of the Towns and Rivers, 1760
Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 42 a-b
Identifier: 3976.556a
Transcript (DCI)
Col. Parvley wrote in 1746, That there was a Fall ¼ Mile long 12 Miles below Uforsee to which the French Boats MIght come & from thence transport what they please to any Town over the Hills. Mr. Kelly a Trader Said the French Boats came up formerly to great Uforsee.The River herein called Mississipi River is in fact only a large Branch of it and runs into it below the junction of the Ohio and Wabache in one Stream together with them. ...
Dates:
1760
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 Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa Sumtibus Dn Walteri Raleigh, 1585
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
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
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, 1570
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 233.Unknown]
Identifier: 3965.569
Translated Title
Transcript (DCI)
A New Representation of America, or the New World
Transcript (DCI)
Hic uspiam insulas esle auro dissites nonnulli nolunt
He due insule infortunate sunt dicte a Magellano, qud nec homines nee victui apta haberent
Nova Guinea, Andrea at Corsalus Florent: videtur eā sub nomine Terre Piccinnacoli designare
Porto real ad quem Galli mercatum nauigant
Patagonum Regio. ubi incole sunt gigantes
Dates:
1570