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Author
[Haverty, Helen, Adams, Katherine Payne]
Full Title
The cradle of the Republic. Map makers Helen Haverty & Katherine Adams. (Copyright) Helen Havertey & Katherine Payne Adams. (inset) Colonial Williamsburg.
List No
8405.000
Note
Manuscript hand colored pictorial map, mounted on heavy cardboard. Date estimated. Shows rivers, buildings, landmarks, and agricultural products. Includes noted and dated historical scenes, and figures. Title cartouche in upper center decorated with flags, and compass rose on upper right corner decorated with the State Seal of Virginia. We assume this was intended for eventual publication but we can find no record of a published version. Katherine Payne Adams did produced a published map in 1955 titled "Virginia, 1602-1622 : showing the most remarqueable parts thus named in the Ancient Records."
Author
[Fry, Joshua, Jefferson, Peter]
Full Title
A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina. Drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775. Reprinted 1937 by U.S. Geological Survey. Engraved by S.J. Neele, London. (in upper margin) Virginia (eastern part including West Virginia) at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, from a 1787 and 1775 originals ... Issued by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.
List No
13081.013
Note
Map of Virginia, Eastern part. With 2 insets: in lower margin is a small map showing Virginia, "taken from Bull. 817, U.S. Geological Survey, 1930, page 140", and The Fry and Jefferson map in the middle. Relief shown pictorially. Includes a facsimile of a note and signature of Thomas and historical text. Series: "This map is one of a series of similar colored maps, depicting the 13 original states, from New Hampshire to Georgia at the time of the formation of the Constitution ..."
Author
Filson, John
Full Title
This map of Kentucke, drawn from actual observations, is inscribed with the most perfect respect, to the Honorable the Congress of the United States of America, and to His Excellecy. George Washington, late Commander in Chief of their Army ... By John Filson. Reprinted 1937 by U.S. Geological Survey. (in upper margin) Virginia (Western part, i.e. Kentucky) at the time of the Constitution, from 1784 and 1789 maps ... Issued by the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission.
List No
13081.014
Note
Map of Virginia, Western part, Kentucky. With inset in lower margin: New map of the States of Georgia South and North Carolina Virginia and Maryland including the Spanish provinces of West and East Florida from the latest surveys. Relief shown pictorially. Includes a facsimile of a note in upper right and historical text. Series: "This map is one of a series of similar colored maps, depicting the 13 original states, from New Hampshire to Georgia at the time of the formation of the Constitution ..."
Author
Clegg, Ernest
Full Title
A descriptive map of the region within one hundred miles of the capital of the United States : portraying the principal events and places of major interest in the nation's political, cultural, and religious history : commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. Published by Washington Cathedral, MCMXXXII (1932). Designed by Ernest Clegg.
List No
8241.000
Note
Pictorial historical map, hand colored, with 6 insets. Decorative title cartouche illustrating Washington Cathedral, seals and coats of arms. Includes text, and small banner-shaped labels with the names of places, buildings, monuments, mines, and historical notes. Shows explorer's ships and French fleets in Atlantic Ocean, compass rose on lower right oriented with north to the upper right, and view of Washington monument in lower center. Note: "Of this map there have been 200 copies printed in black and white, hand colored by Ernest Clegg. this is copy No."
Author
Ball, Robert
Full Title
A Part of Virginia showing Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, with historical events from 1585 - 1781. Designed by Robert Ball. copyright 1939 by the Williamsburg Restoration Inc.
List No
8369.000
Note
Hand colored pictorial map, mounted on cardboard, was designed by Robert Ball in 1939 for the Williamsburg restoration project. Depicts Historical Events of Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown 1585-1781 and the surrounding area. Showing images of battles fields, establishment of settlements and the burning of towns. Noted images to Captain John Smith is all over the map for different entries: John Smith trading with Indians May 1607...John Smith captured by Indians May 1607...Smith led captive through a great part the Tidewater region and finally brought before King Powhatan...his life saved by Pocahontas January 5, 1608. Includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose oriented with the north to the upper right.
Author
Stevens, Hugo
Full Title
A map showing points of interest in Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown in Virginia. By Hugo Stevens.
List No
8374.000
Note
Pictorial map of the peninsula between the James and York Rivers in Virginia and three historically significant colonial Virginia towns, focusing on the period between the establishment of the first English settlement in Jamestown in 1607 and the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown, which ended the Revolutionary War in 1781. (The Battle of Williamsburg in 1862 during the Civil War. Illustrations depict landmark buildings, events, scenes from colonial life and portraits of historical figures such as Captain John Smith, Chief Powhatan and George Washington. The cartouche is decorated with a picture of a colonial soldier with clipper ships in the background. Includes the state seal of Virginia, its colonial coat of arms, and a compass rose. Date estimated.
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