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Tourist Attraction - Lonely Dell Ranch

Tools along the side of the Polygamist Era Cabin The Lees Ferry and Lonely Dell Ranch Landscape is a physical reminder of the settlement and expansion history of the Mormon Church in this region. It is also sig... More

Map of the world from BL Royal 14 C IX, ff. 1v-2

Miniature of the map of the world, at the beginning of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. Image taken from ff. 1v-2 of Polychronicon. Written in Latin. The BL Royal Manuscript Collection, also known as the Royal C... More

Map from BL Arundel 93, f. 148 - Public domain old map

Detail of a miniature of a map of Icaria and mandria, illustrating sections 51-52. Image taken from f. 148 of Liber insularum archipelagi. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the... More

Karta Rossii Seb. Miunstera iz ego Kosmografii 1544g. Tekst str,6

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Karta Rossii Ia. Gastal'do 1548 iz italianskago perevoda Geografii Pto...

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Karta Rossii by Ia. Gastal'do 1548 iz italianskago izdaniia Geografii ...

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Karta Rossii Gerbershteina, pokrytaia lesami, iz latinskago izdaniia Z...

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Map of eastern Canada - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. From Giovanni Battista Ramusio's Terzo volvme delle navigationi et viaggi ...? 1565? pp. 424-425? In upper left margin: 424. In upper right margin: 425. Available also through the Libr... More

Karta Evropeiskoi Sarmatii Andreia Pograbiia 1570g. Tekst str.11

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Descripción del Reino de Jaen Ordenada por el Doctor Gaspar Salcedo de...

Procede de la obra: "Nobleza de Andaluzia" de Gonzalo Argote de Molina, impresa en Sevilla en 1588

Kurtze und grundliche erzehelung der Machtigen vnd vbertrefflichen Arm...

Print shows birdseye view of many sailing ships coming into the harbor near the island of Vulpen and map of the area around Biervliet, Vlissingen and Sluis in the Netherlands. Includes plan of the forts and loc... More

Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariæ una cum adiacentibus et f...

Map of Hungary and adjacent parts of the Danube River Valley showing populated places occupied by the invading Turks and places remaining Christian (unoccupied). Covers the Danube River Valley from Vienna (upst... More

Vitoria ottenuta dala serenissma Republica di Venetia contra Turchi l'...

Engraved print shows birds-eye view of ships in the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey after the battle between the Turks and forces of the Venetian republic on June 26, 1656. Commander Lorenzo Marcello, leader of th... More

Plattegrond van Zwolle - Public domain vintage map

Plattegrond in vogelvluchtperspectief. Linksboven het wapen van Overijssel. Linksonder legenda, daaromheen putti, vee en een vrouwfiguur met een korenschoof (mogelijk Ceres). Rechtsboven het wapen van Zwolle.

Plattegrond van Deventer, veroverd door de bisschop van Munster in 167...

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Delineatio schenographica reg. metropolis Danor: et munitae urbis Hafn...

Bird's-eye view of the siege of Copenhagen by Swedish forces in 1659. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Typus Haffniae regni Daniae metropolis et sedis regiae ut et obsidii q...

Shows the siege of Copenhagen in 1658 by Swedish forces. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000026 from volume 01 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000062 from volume 01 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

A plan of the town and harbour of Boston, and the country adjacent wit...

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map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000120 from volume 01 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000040 from volume 03 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000122 from volume 02 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000136 from volume 02 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000078 from volume 03 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

map from "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ....

This image has been taken from scan 000096 from volume 03 of "The Campaigns of Napoleon: Arcola, Marengo, Jena, Waterloo ... extracted from Thiers's History of the Consulate and the Empire; and edited, with Eng... More

Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivi...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. This incomplete map without title covers only the east portion showing in the map entitled "Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisian... More

Plan du Fort Condé de la Mobille, marqué en rouge dans l'Etat quil est...

Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Shows Mobile and Fort Condé (later renamed Fort Charlotte), Alabama. "Echelle de cent cinquante toises." Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, red, yellow). "This Fr... More

Copy of a sketch of the Monongahela, with the field of battle,

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Relief shown by hachures. In this map the name Ohio R. ou la belle rivière is applied also to the Allegheny. The words "direction of" have been inserted in p... More

Plan des ville y chateau de Namur, assiegé par le Roy en personne le 3...

Relieve : sombreado

Plan of Fort William Henry and camp at Lake George.

Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Includes descriptive index to military positions. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1121 Available also throug... More

Plan of the attack on Fort William Henry and Ticonderoga; showing the ...

Scale 1:253,440; 4 miles to an in. Title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 852. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermark. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster ... More

Prospect of Saratogha [i.e. Saratoga], 1757, taken from the saw mill 1...

Transfer; Map Division.

A Survey of the City of Kilkenny [mapa] By John Rocque, Chorographe to...

Fecha de publicación tomada de "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmarkers", Tring, 1979, p. 95

Plan of the fort and fortress at Crown Point with their environs. With...

Scale 1:7,200; 200 yards to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "References."... More

Ticonderoga as it was in 1759. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:84,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Includes index to military activities. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1118 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raste... More

A perspective view of Lake George : Plan of Ticonderoga

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[Braddock's route, 1755, Fort Cumberland to Fort Pitt.

Scale 1:316,800; 5 mi. to an in. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown pictorially. In pencil: Braddock's rout 1755. Sh... More

London &c. actually surveyed, - Public domain architectural plan drawi...

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Plan of the siege of the Havana surrenderid [sic] Aug. 12, 1762 to the...

Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Insets: Castle of Morro -- Fort of Puntal. Views: View of the town of Havana taken from the harbour -- View of the... More

A map of Louisiana, with the course of the Missisipi, and the adjacent...

Scale ca. 1:8,500,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From the author's The history of Louisiana; or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina. 1763. v. 1. Available also through the Library of C... More

Descripcion de las costas, islas placeres, i bajos delas, Indias Occid...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor, on vellum. Shows the Atlantic coast of southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. "Sibre para Domingo de Belasco Pilo to d... More

Map of Nova Scotia, or Acadia; with the islands of Cape Breton and St....

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A map of the country between Will's Creek & Monongahela River shewing ...

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

A prospective view of the battle fought near Lake George, on the 8th o...

British colonial troops wanted to capture Fort St. Frédéric (Crown Point), a French fortress on Lake Champlain, to gain control of the Lake Champlain corridor. Instead, they claimed victory at Lake George in Se... More

A correct plan of the environs of Quebec, and of the battle fought on ...

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Plan of the attack against Basseterre on the island of Guadeloupe by a...

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Plan of Charles Town, with the intrenchments, and encampment of His Ma...

Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America.

Scale ca. 1:3,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Engrav'd for the Pennsylv[ani]a magazine." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North A... More

Map of the environs of Boston - Public domain old map

Appearing August 28, 1775, in the London publication, The Remembrancer, this was one of the earliest British depictions of Boston and vicinity following the battle at Bunker Hill. This generalized sketch map fo... More

Plan of the heights of Charles Town, &c.

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Plan of the town & fortifications of Montreal or ville Marie in Canada...

Print shows map "Plan of the town & fortifications of Montreal or ville Marie in Canada" on the Saint Lawrence River, with insert, after D. Pomarede (see no. 352), "View of the town &c of Montreal" which the fo... More

A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent with...

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Plan of the peninsula of Charles Town shewing the three posts that His...

Scale ca. 1:4,860. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Dedication is in different ink from drafting of map. Includes index to major fortifications. LC Maps of North Ame... More

A plan of the operations of the King's army under the command of Gener...

Scale ca. 1:85,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Includes descriptive notes. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1054 Available also through the Library of C... More

A plan of the town of Boston and its environs, with the lines, batteri...

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps and Charts, 1750-1789, 930 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... More

A plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & e...

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The seat of action, between the British and American forces; or, An au...

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Plan of the city and environs of Quebec, with its siege and blockade b...

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[Plan d'Amboy : vues de la rade de Charles-Town et de Fort Sulivan, ma...

Fort-Sulivan | Charles-town Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Sketch of Forts Clinton & Montgomery, stormed the 6th Octob. 1777 by t...

Scale ca. 1:11,700. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows routes of troop movements and military units. LC Maps of North America, 17... More

Plan of the attack on the provincial army on Long Island, August 27th ...

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Plan of the city and environs of Quebec : with its siege and blockade ...

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

[Map of British outposts between Burlington and New Bridge, New Jersey...

Not drawn to scale. Alternate title in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: Maps of the road taken by the British troops from New Bridge to Burlington, N.J. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Ha... More

Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laqu...

We Are One: This beautiful, meticulously-drawn French map of Boston's harbor and environs uses the Liberty Tree and liberty pole icons to champion the Americans' cause. In the decorative title cartouche, a Nati... More

A plan of New York Island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island & e...

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Plan of the city and environs of Quebec, with its siege and blockade b...

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

Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laqu...

Highlighted on this fine topographic map of Boston and vicinity are the British and American troops. The American troops are colored red -- the first corps in Cambridge, the second corps opposite Charlestown ne... More

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His ...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 932 Available also through the Librar... More

A plan of the operations of the King's army under the command of Gener...

Scale ca. 1:84,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. LC Copy 1 on verso: Plan of operations at New York. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1055 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site ... More

Draft of roads in New Jersey. - Public domain old map

Scale not given. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Shows roads of Camden and Gloucester counties, New Jersey. Described in Samuel S. Smith's The fight for the Delaware, under the title ... More

Position of the army on the 8th Octbr. 1777.

Scale ca. 1:7,200. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows British and German troop positions. Includes key to the military units. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1179 Avail... More

Plan der landung der Gebrüdere Howe, bey dem ausfluss des Elk Strom ....

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[Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Title from engraved map published by William Faden, 1780. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-... More

A map of the inhabited part of Canada from the French surveys : with t...

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

A topographical map of the northn. part of New York Island, exhibiting...

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

Plan of Carillon ou [sic] Ticonderoga : which was quitted by the Ameri...

Shows military installations and British troop positions in the vicinity of Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) at the time of the Battle of Saratoga (Oct. 1777). Relief shown by hachures. Parts of index in mixed English a... More

Environs de Quebec : bloque par les Americains du 8. decembre 1775 au ...

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Plan du camp retranchè à Wilmington pour y couvrir notre hospital apre...

New York, with the entrance of the North and East rivers

Print shows distant view of New York City at the confluence of the North and East rivers. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... More

Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebel works raised against ...

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[Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Title from engraved copy published by William Faden, 1780. (Faden 68). Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1180 Available also through the... More

Les marches du corps du Lord Cornwallis de Billinsport jusqu'a Philade...

Scale ca. 1:53,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink on tracing paper. Relief shown by hachures. Camps are dated Nov. 18 at Billinsport to Nov. 25 at Gloucester. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1277 Available also ... More

A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,700. Includes "References to the lines &c." and "References to the town." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 934 Vault ... More

Plan de notre camp à New Brunswick le 12e. juin, notre marche le 14 à ...

Scale ca. 1:65,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper. Relief shown by hachures. On verso: V75. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1273 Available also through the Library of Congress Web... More

A plan of Boston in New England with its environs, including Milton, D...

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A sketch of the operations of His Majesty's fleet and army under the c...

Scale ca. 1:130,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Depths shown by soundings. Centered on the Hudson River and New York Bay from Sandy Hook to Haverstraw. Includes index entitled "Referenc... More

A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

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Position de notre camp le 24 juin 1777 à Perth Amboy.

Scale ca. 1:11,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1274 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,600. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. "N.B. Since the evacuation of Boston ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 933 Available also through the Library of Con... More

Plan de l'affaire de Westfield & du camp de Raway.

Scale ca. 1:50,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper. Relief shown by hachures. Shows troop positions in Essex and Union counties, New Jersey and location of camps near Rahway for the 26t... More

Plan of the position which the army under Lt. Genl. Burgoyne took at S...

Scale ca. 1:108,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1178 Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Skecth [sic] of the road from Kings Bridge to White Plains.

Plan of Genl Du Portail. Plan of the position of Valley Forge after Ja...

Scale not given. Relief shown by hachures. Title from verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Annotated in pencil to show some distances. Annotated bar scale shows scale ca. 14,000. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,... More

Plan of the city of Philadelphia and its environs shewing its defences...

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. "To the Honble. Sir William Howe K.B. general and commander in chief of all His Majesty's forces within the colonies laying ... More

Plan of part of the River Delaware from Chester to Philadelphia, in wh...

Scale ca. 1:30,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1366 Available also through the Library of ... More

Battle of Brandywine in which the rebels were defeated, September the ...

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

Plan de la retraite de Barren Hill en Pensilvanie : ou un détachement ...

Covers Barren Hill and vicinity (Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa.) with Chestnut Hill and Germantown. Relief shown by hachures. Place-names in English. Pen-and-ink, watercolors, wash, and lead pencil. Secti... More

Siège de Savannah fait par les troupes françoises aux ordres du généra...

Scale ca. 1:27,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, watercolor, and gilt. Relief shown by shading. Pictorial map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to points of ... More

Plan of the French and rebells sieg[e] of Savannah in Georgia, in Sout...

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