France's territorial claims in North America, which initially focused on the St. Lawrence River Valley and the Great Lakes, can be traced to Samuel de Champlain's explorations and trading activities in that reg More
Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In margin: Bibliotheque du Depot des cartes et plans de la Marina, More
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783." Includes historic notes. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of More
Manuscript copy of manuscript original in the National Archives in London. Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
After the conquest of Louisburg, Governor Shirley began organizing an attack on Quebec. During the preparations, this chart of the St. Lawrence River was engraved by Johnston, a "Boston house painter, japanner, More
Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region to Montreal. Includes table of sources of observations. Accompanied More
Scale ca. 1:7,200,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longitude west from Ferro." "Sold by Wm. Herbert ... & Robt. Sayer ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 62 Includes notes. Maps in margin: A More
Scale ca. 1:1,900,000; English marine leagues 20 to a degree; English miles 69 1/2 to a degree. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. More
Shows the site of General Braddock's defeat, 1755, the line of the army's movements, forts, Indian settlements, etc. Covers the area from approx. the location of Quebec city, west to Lake Erie north of Clevelan More
Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nicholas or Engl More
Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nicholas or Engl More
Scale ca. 1:2,850,000. Relief shown pictorially. "Tom XIV, in 4⁰, no. 15. Tome 14, in 8⁰, page 254, no. 1." Appears in Jean Francois de La Harpe's Abrégé de l'histoire generale des voyages. 1780. LC Maps of Nor More
Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications and military activity in the vicinity of Québec. Includes illustrations, index to ships, etc., and indexed inset "A plan of the action gained by the English near Q More
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Shows fortifications and military activity in the vicinity of Québec. Includes illustrations and notes. LC copy mounted on cloth backed paper. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Scale 1:506,880; miles 8 to an in. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 808 Available also through the Library More
Scale ca. 1:150,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms. Originally on 12 plates. "This chart was drawn from particular surveys of the following places; and published for the u More
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Scale ca. 1:633,600. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Shows area from Hudson River-Lake Champlain to Penobscot Bay. Appears in Thomas Jefferys' A general topography of North Ameri More
Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Soundings shown by fathoms. "Tome, I, no. 10." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 241 Available also through the Library of Congress Web s More
Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. In pencil, lower left margin: No. 10. Includes descriptive notes and More
A chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and les Trois Rivières | Chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and les Trois Rivières : exhibiti More
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Title in upper margin: A chorographical map of the country between Albany, Oswego, Fort Frontenac, and les Trois Rivières ... Drawn from authentic surveys by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to More
Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Public domain scan of a 17th-18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo More
Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes descriptive text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nich More
Scale ca. 1:695,000 Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes descriptive text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nicho More
Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Covers the area from Quebec to lower Chesapeake Bay and west along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to Fort Detroit. Shows provinces, towns and cities, forts, some More
Scale ca. 1:125,000. Manuscript, black and red ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Map shows primarily Vermont with Québec (Province) and New York (State) LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1071 Ava More
Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Includes historical notes, "Extract of the treaties of peace, proclamations &c. relative to America & the West Indies," "A particular map of Baffin More
Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Appears in the author's The American atlas. 1775. Includes text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river More
Scale ca. 1:150,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Depths shown in fathoms. Each sheet composed of 4 sections glued together. "This chart was drawn from particular surveys of the following places; a More
Scale ca. 1:1,900,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "VII" located above upper right corner of border. Shows Maritime Provinces, New England, and St. Lawrence Valley region More
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Longitude west from London." Shows township and county boundaries. Includes historical notes and insets of "A chart of the mouth of Hudson's R More
Seat of the war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Published by a prominent London firm, this map illustrates the extent of the British colonies in northern North America at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Britain was keenly interested in maint More
Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special More
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows administrative divisions. From Thomas Jeffery's American atlas. 1778. Insets: A chart of the mouth of Hudson's River, from Sandy Hook to New Yo More
Scale ca. 1:6,900. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Includes historic notes and index to important buildings and military defenses. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 611 Avai More
We Are One: Samuel Johannes Holland compiled the first map of New York published after the French and Indian War. Holland was a Dutch military engineer who became the Surveyor General for the Northern District More
Published by a prominent London firm, this map illustrates the extent of the British colonies in northern North America at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Britain was keenly interested in maint More
Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated with names and descriptive notes and letterpress. Watermark: J. Whatman. Shows Indian tribes of western Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchew More
Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. LC copy deteriorated in margins. Relief shown pictorially. Shows administrative divisions. Insets: A chart of the mouth of Hudson's River, from Sandy Hook to New York.--A plan More
Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "The seat of war in the middle British colonies, containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware counties, &ca." Inset: A sketch of the upper parts of More
Scale ca. 1:7,320. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes and index to points of interest and points of attack. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault A More
Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Insets with indexes: A particular survey of the Isles of Montreal.--The city of Quebec.--Course of the river St. Laurence, from La Valterie to Queb More