Map collection, ca. 1626-[19--].
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Map collection, ca. 1626-[19--].
Chiefly maps, plats, and charts, relating to Nantucket, Mass., including Monomoy lots, roads, various dwellings, common lands, homesteads, Indian lands and boundaries, various businesses, etc.; chart (1682) of the coast of New England, including Nantucket, St. George's Bank, shoals off Nantucket, and illustrations of Indians and compass roses/cardinal points (title and place names in Dutch); chart (1730) of Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, etc., including various shoals, depths, currents, and pictures of houses; map (1869) of Boston in 1729, including streets, burial grounds, churches, illustrations of ships in the harbor, and locations of fires, 1653-1711; chart (1894) of Boston Harbor, ca. 1775, including artillery battery on the North End; map (1978) of Old Plymouth Colony Indian and Pilgrim trails, including areas inhabited by Native Americans, including Wampanoags and Massachuset and histories of the towns of Old Plymouth Colony, including Indian names; map (ca. 1626) of South America, North America, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, including depiction of inhabitants and cities and two pages of "The Description of America"; and map [18--] of Vinland, including areas explored and settled by Norsemen in New England in the 10th century. Also includes map [16--], in Latin, Dutch, and English, of Virginia through Maine and north to the St. Lawrence River, including resident native tribes, towns and cities, examples of wildlife, depiction of New York City as New Amsterdam, sketches of mountains and forests, Massachusetts and Cape Cod, Nantucket, and compass roses.
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