This is a pencil-drawn manuscript made by an unknown draftsman who attempted an artistic production with little training behind him. He also attempted to depict the Ohio and some of the surrounding country, with the benefit of precious little…
"This interesting map may or may not have been executed from information furnished by George Washington. It is probably a composite map based on the best information available to the publisher, who was primarily interested in maps and charts, about…
This infamous nineteenth-century map of southwestern Wisconsin during the lead mining boom(1820s) illustrates the regions significant mines and settlements. View the maps labels and see if you recognize any of the names.
One of two maps in this collection by French military officer Georges Henri Victor Collot (1750-1805) during his 1796 reconnoitering expedition through the Illinois and Louisiana Territorieswith fellow French cartographer Joseph Warin and North…
This map was “compiled from the best authorities” for Governor Ninian Edwards in 1815 during his third term as governor of the Illinois Territory. Governor Edwards twice sent militia against Native peoples, in the War of 1812 and the Winnebago War,…
This map is from the third edition of Carey’s American Pocket Atlas; containing twenty maps... with a brief description of each state and of Louisiana... third edition, greatly improved and englarged (1805). The volume is significant for its new…
"Angel Mounds - Misc. / Kodacolor Negative / Mrs. George Martin holding Proton Magnetometer sensing head along a non-magnetic tape to take readings of the earth's magnetism at one-foot intervals in Subdivision P-9-D. / Mrs. G. A. Black holding…
Elizabeth Watts Malouchos at Cahokia Mounds supervising the Institute of Field Research field school. 2016. Lead by Dr. Sarah Baires and Dr. Melissa Baltus.