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A New and Correct Plan of the Town of Boston.

Description: Map shows late-colonial Boston, Massachusetts street names, building locations, ferries, wharves, fortifications, and "the Common." "Charles Town in Ruins" is depicted in the upper part of the map. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given. Map comes from The Gentleman's Magazine, v. 45, Oct. 1775.
Date: 1775
Creator: Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

North America and the West Indies with the opposite coasts of Europe and Africa.

Description: Map shows major routes of exploration, eastern half of the North American continent, the West Indies, New Spain, and northern portion of South America; the British Isles and the western portions of Europe and Africa, islands in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area; areas of Native American habitation and major settlements. Includes tables, dates, notes, and small illustrations. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:17,000,000].
Date: 1775
Creator: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Russian Discoveries : from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

Description: Map shows coast of Russia, the Alaskan peninsula, and portions of the Arctic Circle; routes and stops taken by explorers Captains Bering and Tschirikow and others. Includes legend and "explanation of the Russian names. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1775
Creator: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

An accurate map of North America describing and distinguishing the British and Spanish dominions of this great continent according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763 : also all the West India Islands belonging to and possessed by the several European princes and states ; the whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick [sic.] improvements [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows European settlements, areas of Native American habitation, routes of Spanish galleon voyages in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Includes explanation to symbols, text of Articles 4-7, 9, 17-18, and 20 of the Treaty of Paris, 1763, textual commentary and notes on explorers and discovery dates, and illustrated title cartouche depicting new world natives and animals. Insets: "A particular map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay" and "The passage by land to California discovered by Father Eus… more
Date: 1775
Creator: Bowen, Emanuel, d. 1767
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Russian Discoveries : from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

Description: Map shows coast of Russia, the Alaskan peninsula, and portions of the Arctic Circle; routes and stops taken by explorers Captains Bering and Tschirikow and others. Includes legend and "explanation of the Russian names. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1775
Creator: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Order by Captain Tomás Sánchez]

Description: Order by Captain Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera y Gallardo of Laredo, requiring all civilians report to the town and settle within the city. He notes a fine of 25 pesos for anyone who does not comply within three days.
Date: 1775-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

[Letter from Vicente González de Santianés to Captain Tomás Sánchez, September, 24, 1775]

Description: Letter from Vicente González de Santianés to Captain Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera y Gallardo saying he is sending Ildefonso de la Garza with a sergeant and 25 troops to defend the territory between Laredo and Las Iglesias. As this route is often used by Indians as a road for raids it is to be defended, and more gunpowder will be sent.
Date: 1775-09~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: St. Mary's University Louis J. Blume Library

The coast of West Florida and Louisiana. : the Peninsula and Gulf of Florida or Channel of Bahama with the Bahama Islands.

Description: Map shows late eighteenth century coastline detail of the Gulf of Mexico from southern Louisiana to the tip of Florida; coastline detail for Atlantic coast of Florida; swamps, islands, inlets, settlements, and ports; similar details for the Bahamas. Includes small illustrations of ships and annotations. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1775
Creator: Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Purse

Description: Purse of multicolored Bargello needlepoint. The envelope-style purse is covered in silk embroidery in greens, blues, reds, pinks, black, etc., in the Florentine Bargello, edged in green wool. On one side, under flap, is rectangular section with monogram FH and date 1775 worked in embroidery. Opens to reveal 2 separate compartments, lined in green homespun wool. Silk embroidery is disintegrating to reveal canvas ground.
Date: 1775
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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