MAPPING
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Samuel de Champlain's 1607 Map
![Descripsion des costs, pts., rades, illes de la Novele France...](images/tr009-th.jpg)
Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)
Descripsion des costs, pts., rades,
illes de la Nouvele France . . . .
Manuscript chart on vellum, 1607
Geography & Map Division
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George Washington, Mapmaker
![[Site plan of Alexandria]](images/tr010-th.jpg)
A Plan of Alexandria, now Belhaven
Manuscript Map
1749
Geography & Map Division
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A Map of General Washington's Farm
![A Map of General Washington's Farm from a Drawing Transmitted by the General.](images/at109.6s-th.jpg)
George Washington (1732-1799)
A Map of General Washington's Farm from
a Drawing Transmitted by the General.
Removed from Letters from His Excellency General Washington to Arthur
Young.
London: W. J. & J. Richardson, 1801
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division
(109.6)
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George Washington as a Surveyor
![Holograph manuscript survey](images/at0109b.4p1s-th.jpg)
George Washington (1732-1799)
Holograph manuscript survey,
March 22, 1750
Manuscript Division
Acquired by purchase in 1998
with funds from the
Madison Council (109B.4)
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First American Globes
![Composite photograph of two terrestrial globes and one celestial globe](images/tr011-th.jpg)
James Wilson and Sons
[Composite photograph of two terrestrial
globes and one celestial globe]
A New American Terrestrial Globe.
Bradford, VT: Wilson & Sons, 1811
A Three Inch Terrestrial Globe.
Albany: Wilson & Sons, ca. 1820
A Celestial Globe.
Albany: Wilson & Sons, ca. 1820
Geography & Map Division
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American Naturalist
![American Entomology; or Descriptions of the Insects of North America.](images/tr012-th.jpg)
Thomas Say (1787-1834)
American Entomology;
or Descriptions
of the Insects of North America.
Philadelphia: 1824-28
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
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Indian Map of Ohio River Country
![Map of the country about the Mississippi](images/tr013-th.jpg)
Chegeree (the Indian)
Map of the country about the Mississippi
[ca. 1755]
Manuscript map
Geography & Map Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (113.4)
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Exploring the Colorado
![Black Cañon Looking Above from Camp 8, Colorado River, Arizona](images/tr014-th.jpg)
Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
Black Cañon Looking Above from Camp
8, Colorado River, Arizona
Albumen silver print, 1871
Prints & Photographs Division
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The Voices of America
![Wax cylinder recordings of Passamaquoddy songs and stories, March 1890](images/tr015-th.jpg)
Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930)
Wax cylinder recordings of
Passamaquoddy songs and stories,
March 1890
American Folklife Center
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Fire Insurance Map
![Tombstone, Arizona (New York: Sanborn Map and Publishing Company, 1886)](images/tr016-th.jpg)
Tombstone, Arizona
(New York: Sanborn Map and
Publishing Company, 1886)
Geography & Map Division
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Drake's Attack on St. Augustine
![Drinking Fountains in the Dougherty County Courthouse](images/tr029-th.jpg)
"St. Augustine"
London: 1589
Hand-colored engraving
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Mound Builders of Ohio
![Plan of the Ancient Works at Marietta, Ohio](images/tr030-th.jpg)
Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886)
Plan of the Ancient Works at
Marietta, Ohio
Ink and graphite on paper, 1837
Gift of Frank Squier, 1905 (114A.2)
Manuscript Division
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Mapping The Western United States
![Topographic Atlas Projected to Illustrate Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian of Longitude.](images/tr035-th.jpg)
Topographic Atlas Projected to
Illustrate Explorations and Surveys West
of the 100th Meridian of Longitude.
George M. Wheeler's Map of Colorado
Geography and Map Division
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Alaskan Expedition
![Fourth of July at Kodiak, Alaska, 1899](images/tr037-th.jpg)
Edward H. Harriman (1841-1901), et al.
Fourth of July at Kodiak, Alaska, 1899
"The Harriman Expedition:
Chronicles and Souvenirs, May to August 1899"
Manuscript Division
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George Washington's
School Copybook
![Geometrical Definitions](images/tr048-th.jpg)
George Washington's School Copybook
Geometrical Definitions
Manuscript copybook, 1745-1748
Manuscript Division
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Bartram's Travels
![Travels through North & South Carolina...](images/tr052-th.jpg)
William Bartram (1739-1823)
Travels through North & South Carolina,
Georgia, East & West Florida.
Philadelphia, 1791.
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Birds of America
![Color lithographic plate 321, 1836](images/tr055-th.jpg)
John James Audubon (1785-1851)
The Birds of America
London: 1827-1838
Color lithographic plate 321, 1836
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
War Department transfer
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"Indians Coming From War"
![Diary entry for March 23, 1748](images/tr056-th.jpg)
George Washington
Diary entry for March 23, 1748
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1909
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Circumnavigation of The Globe
![Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae . . . .](images/tr059-th.jpg)
Jodocus Hondius (1563-1611)
Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae .
. . .
Possibly Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Hand-colored engraving
Geography & Map Division
Gift of the estate of Robert Powers (110.2)
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Plains Indians
![Reise in das innere Nord-America](images/tr061-th.jpg)
Prince Maximillian Alexander
Philipp von Wied-Neuwield.
Reise in das innere Nord-America in
den
Jahren 1832 bis 1834
[Travels in the Interior of North America].
Koblenz: 1839-1841"Pehriska-Ruhpa,"
after a painting by Karl Bodmer
Hand-colored engraving
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division(114.7)
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![Haida Totem Knife](images/at0046c.2bp1s-th.jpg)
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Native American Totem Knife
Haida Totem Knife.
ca. 1884
Manuscript Division
Gift, 1918 (46C.2a,b)
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Jefferson's Only Published Map
![A Map of the Country between Albemarle Sound ...](images/tr063-th.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson.
A Map of the Country between
Albemarle Sound and Lake Erie,
Comprehending the Whole of Virginia,
Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
London: John Stockdale, 1787
Colored, engraved map
Geography & Map Division
(7.7)
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At the Pole
![Polar Diary Cape Sparbo](images/tr066-th.jpg)
Frederick A. Cook
(1865-1940)
Polar Diary Cape Sparbo
May 25, 1907-June 13, 1909
Manuscript Division
Gift of Janet Cook Vetter, 1959 (110.3)
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Mapping the Ocean Floor
![Contours, 0504N](images/tr078-th.jpg)
T. Casper
"Contours, 0504N" for
Atlantic Ocean Floor.
Colored pencil on mylar and
graphite on paper, July 1973
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Marie Tharp, 1995-96 (118.1)
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John and Ruby Lomax
![Reise in das innere Nord-America](images/tr034-th.jpg)
John Lomax (1867-1948)
Ruby Lomax (1886-1961)
Dust jackets, with fieldnotes
Recording Trip April 26, 1939 to May 13, 1939
Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas and Huntsville, Walker County,
Texas
American Folklife Center
(113.8a, 113.8b)
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Field Recordings in Spain
![Photographic contact sheet from Bormujo, Spain](images/at0222a_13s-th.jpg)
Alan Lomax (1915–2002)
Photographic contact sheet pasted into notebook
and annotated. Bormujo, Seville, Andalusia, Spain. 1952. [accompanying sound recording:
World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 4: Spain. Rounder
CD 11661 1744-2]
American Folklife Center
Purchase from the Estate of Alan Lomax
( 222A.13)
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Field Recordings in Italy
![7-in. open reel tape box from Calabria, Italy](images/at0225_3bs-th.jpg)
Alan Lomax (1915–2002)
7-inch open reel tape box from Calabria,
Italy. July 26, 1954.
[accompanying sound recording: The Alan Lomax Series:
Italian Treasury, Calabria. Rounder CD 1803]
American Folklife Center
Purchase from the Estate of Alan Lomax (225.3a,b)
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Woody Guthrie
![Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Lomax, and Alan Lomax play and sing folk music](images/at0224_2bs-th.jpg)
Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie,
Elizabeth Lomax (foreground), Lilly
Mae Ledford,
and Alan Lomax play and sing folk music at a cast
party for The Martins and the Coys, 1944
Contemporary gelatin silver print from original negative
American Folklife Center (224.2a,b)
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Reactions to War
![Telegram from Alan Lomax to Fletcher Collins, Dec. 8, 1941](images/at0227_1bs-th.jpg)
Alan Lomax to Fletcher Collins,
December 8, 1941
Telegram
Alan Lomax to David Mearns,
December 8, 1941
Memo
Alan Lomax to John Lomax,
December 8, 1941
Telegram
American Folklife Center (227.1a-c)
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Fitz Globe
![Fitz's double horizon ring globe](images/at0110_12ap1s-th.jpg)
Ellen Eliza Fitz (b. 1836)
Fitz's double horizon ring globe
[Manufactured by Ginn
Brothers], ca. 1877
Purchase by Shirley Phillips
Geography & Map Division (110.12a)
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Coming of Age in Samoa
![Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization](images/at0113as-th.jpg)
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological
Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization, 1928
Printer's prepublication dummy
Manuscript Division
Bequeathed by Margaret Mead, 1979 (113A)
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American Ornithology
![Scarlet Tananger from American Ornithology](images/at0113a1p1s-th.jpg)
Alexander Wilson (1766–1813)
“ Scarlet Tananger,”
American Ornithology or Natural History of the United States.
Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Bradsford & Inskeep, 1811
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (113A.1)
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![Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, and Life in the Backwoods: Calculated for All the States in the Union.](images/at0109_9s-th.jpg)
Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, and Life in the Backwoods:
Calculated for All the States in the Union.
Nashville, TN: 1836
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division
(109.9)
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Documenting the Lower
West Side
![[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel "Zeke" Johnson at Lotempio's Restaurant, Buffalo New York]](images/at0143_7as-th.jpg)
Milton Rogovin (b. 1909)
[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel "Zeke" Johnson at Lotempio's Restaurant,
Buffalo New York], no. 90
Gelatin silver print
1973
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Artist and Family ( 143.7a)
Digital ID #s ppmsca-06764 |
1895 Omaha Indian Pow Wow
![Hube na-au (Pebble Society Songs)](images/at0119as-th.jpg)
Alice Fletcher (1823-1923)
Francis La Flesche (1857-1932)
Hube na-au (Pebble Society Songs)
Original Field Notes for Omaha Indian Pow Wow, 1895
American Folklife Center (119A)
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Return of Early Cylinder Recordings
![53rd Annual Omaha Tribal POW-WOW, August 11-14, 1983.](images/at0118_8s-th.jpg)
53rd Annual Omaha Tribal POW-WOW,
August 11-14,
1983.
Color poster
Courtesy of Nebraska Commission of the Humanties
American Folklife Center
(118.8)
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Cabinet
of Natural History
!["American Buffaloe" from the Cabinet of Natural History](images/at0113_9s-th.jpg)
Titian Ramsay Peale
“American Buffaloe,” in The Cabinet
of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J&T
Doughty, 1830
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (113.9)
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Terrestrial Globe
![Joslin's Six Inch Terrestrial Globe](images/at0119A_2s-th.jpg)
Joslin's
Six Inch Terrestrial Globe,
ca. 1840
Geography & Map Division
Gift/purchase from
Philip Colman, 2002 (119A.2)
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Wildflowers of Colorado
![Scarlett Painter's Brush](images/at0113a_4p2s-th.jpg)
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885).
"Scarlett Painter's Brush" in
The
Procession of Flowers in Colorado.
Illustrated by Alice A. Stewart.
Page 2
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
Purchase, 1995 (113A.4)
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Rare American Produced Planetarium
![Laing's Planetarium. Detroit: ca. 1895, with Rand McNally & Company's New 3 Inch Terrestrial Globe](images/at0119_2s-th.jpg)
Laing Planetarium Company
Laing's Planetarium.
Detroit: ca. 1895, with Rand McNally & Company's New 3 Inch Terrestrial
Globe, 1891
Coated paper globe gores over solid molded brown papier-mâché orb
with walnut wheels and parts
Geography & Map Division
Acquisition made possible by
Marjorie S. Fisher, 2005 (119.2)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3170.ct001892
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Journey into North America
![Fox River with Carolina Parakeets](images/at0114_7bs-th.jpg)
Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp von Wied-Neuwield.
"Fox River with Carolina Parakeets"
Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834.
Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-1943.
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division (114.7b)
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