north america

A new map of North America, with the British, French, Spanish, Dutch &...

Scale ca. 1:18,500,000. Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Shows boundaries, cities and towns, roads, forts, Indian villages and tribal territory, and vegetation. Also shows anchorages, currents, and route... More

An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on...

Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241 LC maps of North America, 1750-1789, 707 Av... More

A general map of the middle British colonies in America: Viz. Virginia...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Philadelphia. Relief shown pictorially. Includes numerous notes, especially concerning inland water communications and natural resources, 3 distan... More

A view of Louisburg in North America, taken near the light house when ...

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A letter to his most Excellent Majesty, George the third, King of Grea...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 10118.; On verso, Piece 1: NY 1765 66 S.; On verso, Piece 2: Gift Albert C. Read, Mar 19, 1943. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile pa... More

Iohn Paul Iones, commander of a squadron in the service of the thirtee...

Print shows John Paul Jones, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, standing, wearing uniform, holding telescope cradled in right arm, left hand on anchor, with naval battle scene in the background.

Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D. along the A...

Relief shown pictorially. "Pendleton's Lithography." From: American Antiquarian Society. Transactions and collections. Vol. 2, 1836, fol. p. 264. Hand colored to show the location of Indian tribes and 11 lingui... More

Discovery of North America. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Shows John and Sebastian Cabot. Public domain photograph of a ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Str. North America [sic] - Public domain image of a steam boat

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New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of...

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The Hanger, restaurant catering to workers of North America Aviation p...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Scrap aluminum at the Ingle...

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North America. Historic map, Library of Congress

"802470 (R02067) 1-97." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A map of New England, and Nova Scotia; with part of New York, Canada, ...

Scale ca. 1:4,800,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. From The London magazine, v. 27, Sept. 1758. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 80 Copy one annotated in upper right corner in black in... More

A new map of North America from the latest discoveries.

Scale ca. 1:12,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 89 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2: 651/1 LAC scc 201... More

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...

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The West Indies exhibiting the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Da...

Scale ca. 1:4,750,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. On verso: [Plate no.] 56. Label attached to verso. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1726 Available also through the Libr... More

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States ...

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Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States ...

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A general map of North America; in which is express'd the several new ...

Scale ca. 1:9,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows Caribbean region. "Published ... by M. A. Rocque in the Strand & A. Dury in Dukes Court St. Martins Lane." Title in English and French. LC Ma... More

An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in t...

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State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respe...

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The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

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History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

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Carpenter's geographical reader; North America,

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Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

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Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

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Emancipation of the slaves, proclamed [i.e. proclaimed] on the 22nd Se...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Waeshle, J. Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of ... More

[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents].

Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied b... More

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Sheet removed from German ed. of W.J. Blaeu's atlas: Atlas novus, Amsterdam, 1634. Map redesigned from a portion of Blaeu's larger map of North America printed ca. 1630. Has vertical fold line at center of shee... More

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

An Accurate map of North America from the latest discoveries.

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Degrees west from London." Also shows colonies, a few cities and towns, and Indian tribal territory. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Ind... More

L'Amérique septentrionale, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:12,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Mississippi River to be the eastern boundary of Louisiana. From the author's Atlas nouveau, [1761?], v. 9, no. 34. Lowery 433 LC Maps of... More

A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River; a shortened view with reduced skyline. Print attributed to Pierre Charles Canot.

Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disp...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes penciled note and listing of the composition of "Detachments." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 118 Available also through the Library... More

An exact chart of the river St. Lawrence, from Fort Frontenac to the i...

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

Map of the middle states of North America with part of Canada shewing ...

Item 32 in exhibit, "City of magnificent distances, the nation's capital," that was presented in 1991 at Library of Congress. Map incorrectly locates "Columbia" (Washington, D.C.) on Shenandoah River Available ... More

Wapiti-hunting in North America - Public domain engraving

Firing into running herd; hunter standing over dead buck. Wood engraving by R. Caton Woodville. Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1886 Nov. 6, title page. Reference copy may be in LOT 4433 C. This record ... More

[The Old Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, in which the first lodge of Free Ma...

H44466 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Albert Moerk, Atlantic City, N.J., of engraving. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Inns; Pennsylvania; Freemasons; Shelf.

A view of Quebec the capital of Canada, in North America / Roberts scu...

Print shows ship in the foreground with the city of Québec in the distance. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compile... More

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

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The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart, engraving, Library of Congress

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart

A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...

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A journey in North America, containing a survey of the countries water...

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A general topography of North America and the West Indies. Being a col...

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Morse's North American atlas., engraving, Library of Congress

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A new map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided accor...

Scale ca. 1:5,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. LC copy one annotated in black ink. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 27 Includes historical notes, text, and ... More

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

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Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

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[Dwellings of tribal peoples of Africa, North America and the Arctic r...

Originals in PR12, LOT 6634 Public domain photograph of Paris Exposition Universelle, 1889, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province o...

Illustration shows William Penn standing with a group of settlers and Native Americans.

America. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 165. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

[Native Americans collecting sap and cooking maple syrup in pots, till...

Illus. in: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / Joseph Francois Lafitau. Paris : Saugrain l'aîne [etc.], 1724, vol. 2, pl. 7, opp. p. 154.

L'Amerique, divisée en tous ses pays et etats : dressée sur de nouveau...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the left. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 133 Includes inset of eastern and western hemispheres, text, and cartouche. Available also through the L... More

A new and accurate map of the English empire in North America: Represe...

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Designed to be colored. Not colored. "Sold by Wm. Herbert on London Bridge & Robt. Sayer over against Fetter Lane in Fleet Street." LC Maps of North America, 175... More

Amérique septentrionale avec les routes, distances en miles, limites e...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. First French ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 45 Includes text and inset "Nouvelle carte de la baye d'Hudson et de Labrador selon les derni... More

Partie du fleuve St. Laurent avec le passage de la traverse et les isl...

Scale ca. 1:140,000. Relief shown by hachures. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows ship channels. "Tome I, no. 7." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 242 Availab... More

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...

Scale ca. 1:6,300. Dedicated "To the Honble. Thos. Gage ... " Relief shown by hachures. Includes text, index to points of interest, and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the pr... More

North America, and the West Indies; a new map, wherein the British Emp...

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

Map of the western & middle portions of North America : to illustrate ...

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, DC. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

A chart exhibiting the lighthouses of the lake coast of the United Sta...

Map of lighthouse locations in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. using red overprint symbols to indicate the locations and to emphasize state boundaries. Lighthouse locations also shown along the upper St. Law... More

Map of linguistic stocks of American Indians.

From: Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology, v. 7, by J.W. Powell. LC Many nations, p. 209 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Buffalo Bill--peaux rouges /. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Indians from North America dance and perform in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

State Department high officials address Inter-American education confe...

A group of men sitting at a table with plates of food. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[North America statue at Pan American Union Building. Washington, D.C....

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Globe of the world. North America

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Fort Ross, a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North A...

This historic landmark, the subject of archaelogical investigation, was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America between 1812 to 1842. Title, date and keywords based on information provi... More

Footprints at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, one of Americ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The Atlantic Neptune, nautical chart, engraving, Library of Congress

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A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of S... More

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of North America....

Photostat negative of printed words and music with facsimile of signature of signers of the Declaration on back cover. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: a... More

Bank of North America, 305-307 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadel...

Significance: The Bank of America, chartered in 1781, was the nation's first commercial bank. In 1929, it merged with the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trusts. Survey number: HABS PA-1391

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

History of the Indian tribes of North America : with biographical sket...

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A map of the country between Albemarle Sound, and Lake Erie, comprehen...

Scale ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Prime meridian: Philadelphia. Shows boundaries. "The country on the eastern side of the Alleganey Mountains, is taken from Fry and ... More

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North Am...

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Christ Church, Boston - erected A.D. 1723 - this church contains the f...

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A topographical description of the western territory of North America ...

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Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - North America. Historic map, Lib...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Differs from other copy in that only boundaries are colored and some place names are highlighted. The boundary of Georgia is continuous. LC Maps of... More

The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library ... More

L'Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principaux états

Scale ca. 1:27,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 32." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 93 Differs from other copies in geographic features, place names, historical notes, and coloration ... More

A new and accurate map of part of North-America, comprehending the pro...

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

A map of the British dominions in North America, according to the Trea...

Scale ca. 1:10,900,000. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 98 Vault AACR2

Carte de la Florida, de la Louisiane, et pays voisins : pour servir à ...

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A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of Nort...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, 90⁰ L. 45⁰ Lat.," from Tooley's Printed maps of America. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. 1, 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathb... More

Map of North America. - Public domain vintage map

The Principal breeds of horses in use in North America Dedicated to th...

Print showing varieties of horse, such as American trotter, heavy English draught horse, Morgan horse, Arabian horse, horse of Normandy and race horse.

Buffalo dance / coat of arms. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Three Sioux Indians in full regalia perform a "buffalo dance", while two others use drums to supply a rhythm. The three dancers move around in a circle as they perform the various actions that are part of the d... More

Nouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle France en l'...

From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 59, p. facing 86. 8 x 10 film negative available in G&M Reading Room. Part of the Missisippi River exhibit. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1674] Facsimile. Available also throug... More