Samuel de Champlain's 1607 Map

Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635)
Descripsion des costs, pts., rades,
illes de la Nouvele France . . . .
Manuscript chart on vellum, 1607
Geography & Map Division

George Washington, Mapmaker

A Plan of Alexandria, now Belhaven
Manuscript Map
1749
Geography & Map Division

A Map of General Washington's Farm

George Washington (1732-1799)
A Map of General Washington's Farm from a Drawing Transmitted by the General.
Removed from Letters from His Excellency General Washington to Arthur Young.
London: W. J. & J. Richardson, 1801
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division (109.6)

George Washington as a Surveyor

George Washington (1732-1799)
Holograph manuscript survey,
March 22, 1750
Manuscript Division
Acquired by purchase in 1998
with funds from the
Madison Council (109B.4)

First American Globes

James Wilson and Sons
[Composite photograph of two terrestrial
globes and one celestial globe]
A New American Terrestrial Globe.
Bradford, VT: Wilson & Sons, 1811
A Three Inch Terrestrial Globe.
Albany: Wilson & Sons, ca. 1820
A Celestial Globe.
Albany: Wilson & Sons, ca. 1820
Geography & Map Division

American Naturalist

Thomas Say (1787-1834)
American Entomology;
or Descriptions
of the Insects of North America.
Philadelphia: 1824-28
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division

Indian Map of Ohio River Country

Chegeree (the Indian)
Map of the country about the Mississippi
[ca. 1755]
Manuscript map
Geography & Map Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (113.4)

Exploring the Colorado

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
Black Cañon Looking Above from Camp 8, Colorado River, Arizona
Albumen silver print, 1871
Prints & Photographs Division

The Voices of America

Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930)
Wax cylinder recordings of
Passamaquoddy songs and stories,
March 1890
American Folklife Center

Fire Insurance Map

Tombstone, Arizona
(New York: Sanborn Map and
Publishing Company, 1886)
Geography & Map Division

Drake's Attack on St. Augustine

"St. Augustine"
London: 1589
Hand-colored engraving
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Mound Builders of Ohio

Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886)
Plan of the Ancient Works at
Marietta, Ohio
Ink and graphite on paper, 1837
Gift of Frank Squier, 1905 (114A.2)
Manuscript Division

Mapping The Western United States

Topographic Atlas Projected to
Illustrate Explorations and Surveys West
of the 100th Meridian of Longitude.
George M. Wheeler's Map of Colorado
Geography and Map Division

Alaskan Expedition

Edward H. Harriman (1841-1901), et al.
Fourth of July at Kodiak, Alaska, 1899
"The Harriman Expedition: Chronicles and Souvenirs, May to August 1899"
Manuscript Division

George Washington's
School Copybook

George Washington's School Copybook
Geometrical Definitions
Manuscript copybook, 1745-1748
Manuscript Division

Bartram's Travels

William Bartram (1739-1823)
Travels through North & South Carolina,
Georgia, East & West Florida.
Philadelphia, 1791.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Birds of America

John James Audubon (1785-1851)
The Birds of America
London: 1827-1838
Color lithographic plate 321, 1836
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
War Department transfer

"Indians Coming From War"

George Washington
Diary entry for March 23, 1748
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1909

Circumnavigation of The Globe

Jodocus Hondius (1563-1611)
Vera Totius Expeditionis Nauticae . . . .
Possibly Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Hand-colored engraving
Geography & Map Division
Gift of the estate of Robert Powers (110.2)

Plains Indians

Prince Maximillian Alexander
Philipp von Wied-Neuwield.
Reise in das innere Nord-America in den
Jahren 1832 bis 1834
[Travels in the Interior of North America].
Koblenz: 1839-1841"Pehriska-Ruhpa,"
after a painting by Karl Bodmer
Hand-colored engraving
Rare Book & Special Collections Division(114.7)

Native American Totem Knife

Haida Totem Knife.
ca. 1884
Manuscript Division
Gift, 1918 (46C.2a,b)

Jefferson's Only Published Map

Thomas Jefferson.
A Map of the Country between
Albemarle Sound and Lake Erie,
Comprehending the Whole of Virginia,
Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
London: John Stockdale, 1787
Colored, engraved map
Geography & Map Division (7.7)

At the Pole

Frederick A. Cook
(1865-1940)
Polar Diary Cape Sparbo
May 25, 1907-June 13, 1909
Manuscript Division
Gift of Janet Cook Vetter, 1959 (110.3)

Mapping the Ocean Floor

T. Casper
"Contours, 0504N" for
Atlantic Ocean Floor.
Colored pencil on mylar and
graphite on paper, July 1973
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Marie Tharp, 1995-96 (118.1)

John and Ruby Lomax

John Lomax (1867-1948)
Ruby Lomax (1886-1961)
Dust jackets, with fieldnotes
Recording Trip April 26, 1939 to May 13, 1939
Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas and Huntsville, Walker County, Texas
American Folklife Center (113.8a, 113.8b)

Field Recordings in Spain

Alan Lomax (1915–2002)
Photographic contact sheet pasted into notebook and annotated. Bormujo, Seville, Andalusia, Spain. 1952. [accompanying sound recording: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. 4: Spain. Rounder CD 11661 1744-2]
American Folklife Center
Purchase from the Estate of Alan Lomax
( 222A.13)

Field Recordings in Italy

Alan Lomax (1915–2002)
7-inch open reel tape box from Calabria, Italy. July 26, 1954. [accompanying sound recording: The Alan Lomax Series:
Italian Treasury, Calabria. Rounder CD 1803]
American Folklife Center
Purchase from the Estate of Alan Lomax (225.3a,b)

Woody Guthrie

Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie,
Elizabeth Lomax (foreground), Lilly Mae Ledford,
and Alan Lomax play and sing folk music at a cast party for The Martins and the Coys, 1944
Contemporary gelatin silver print from original negative
American Folklife Center (224.2a,b)

Reactions to War

Alan Lomax to Fletcher Collins,
December 8, 1941 Telegram
Alan Lomax to David Mearns,
December 8, 1941 Memo
Alan Lomax to John Lomax,
December 8, 1941 Telegram
American Folklife Center (227.1a-c)

Fitz Globe

Ellen Eliza Fitz (b. 1836)
Fitz's double horizon ring globe
[Manufactured by Ginn
Brothers], ca. 1877
Purchase by Shirley Phillips
Geography & Map Division (110.12a)

Coming of Age in Samoa

Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization, 1928
Printer's prepublication dummy
Manuscript Division
Bequeathed by Margaret Mead, 1979 (113A)

American Ornithology

Alexander Wilson (1766–1813)
“ Scarlet Tananger,”
American Ornithology or Natural History of the United States. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Bradsford & Inskeep, 1811
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (113A.1)

Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports in the West, and Life in the Backwoods: Calculated for All the States in the Union.
Nashville, TN: 1836
Rare Book & Special Collection Division
(109.9)

Documenting the Lower West Side

Milton Rogovin (b. 1909)
[Johnny Lee Wines & Ezekiel "Zeke" Johnson at Lotempio's Restaurant, Buffalo New York], no. 90
Gelatin silver print
1973
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Artist and Family ( 143.7a)
Digital ID #s ppmsca-06764

1895 Omaha Indian Pow Wow

Alice Fletcher (1823-1923)
Francis La Flesche (1857-1932)
Hube na-au (Pebble Society Songs)
Original Field Notes for Omaha Indian Pow Wow, 1895
American Folklife Center (119A)

Return of Early Cylinder Recordings

53rd Annual Omaha Tribal POW-WOW,
August 11-14, 1983.
Color poster
Courtesy of Nebraska Commission of the Humanties
American Folklife Center
(118.8)

Cabinet of Natural History

Titian Ramsay Peale
“American Buffaloe,” in The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: J&T Doughty, 1830
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (113.9)

Terrestrial Globe

Joslin's Six Inch Terrestrial Globe,
ca. 1840
Geography & Map Division
Gift/purchase from
Philip Colman, 2002 (119A.2)

Wildflowers of Colorado

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885).
"Scarlett Painter's Brush" in
The Procession of Flowers in Colorado.
Illustrated by Alice A. Stewart.
Page 2
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Purchase, 1995 (113A.4)

Rare American Produced Planetarium

Laing Planetarium Company
Laing's Planetarium. Detroit: ca. 1895, with Rand McNally & Company's New 3 Inch Terrestrial Globe, 1891
Coated paper globe gores over solid molded brown papier-mâché orb
with walnut wheels and parts
Geography & Map Division
Acquisition made possible by
Marjorie S. Fisher, 2005 (119.2)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3170.ct001892

Journey into North America

Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp von Wied-Neuwield.
"Fox River with Carolina Parakeets"
Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834.
Coblenz: J. Hoelscher, 1839-1943.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (114.7b)