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Samuel de Champlain's 1607 Map
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
A Plan of Alexandria, now Belhaven
Manuscript Map
1749
Geography & Map Division
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A Map of General Washington's Farm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Geography & Map Division
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Drake's Attack on St. Augustine
"St. Augustine"
London: 1589
Hand-colored engraving
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Mound Builders of Ohio
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.
George M. Wheeler's Map of Colorado
Geography and Map Division
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Alaskan Expedition
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
George Washington's School Copybook
Geometrical Definitions
Manuscript copybook, 1745-1748
Manuscript Division
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Bartram's Travels
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
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"
George Washington
Diary entry for March 23, 1748
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1909
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Circumnavigation of The Globe
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (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
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
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
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
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.
Nashville, TN: 1836
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division
(109.9)
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Documenting the Lower
West Side
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
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.
Color poster
Courtesy of Nebraska Commission of the Humanties
American Folklife Center
(118.8)
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Cabinet
of Natural History
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,
ca. 1840
Geography & Map Division
Gift/purchase from
Philip Colman, 2002 (119A.2)
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Wildflowers of Colorado
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 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
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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