American
Studies
Barnard College, Columbia
University
AMS 3002y, Images Gallery
Maps and charts from 15th-17th Century
The world before Columbus -- Fra Mauro (1459)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG084.HTM
The world in the wake of Columbus and Cabot -- Martin
Waldesmuller (1510)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG076.HTM
Forentine Goldsmith's Map (1512)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG076.HTM
The west on the eve of Verrazano's Reconnaissance (1520)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG085.HTM
Gerolamo da Verrazano's rendering of his brother's western
world (1527)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG081.HTM
Americas with "Verrazano's Sea" depicted (1542)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG022.HTM
John White's Virginia coast and Roanoke Island (1585)
John White's Coast from Cheasapeake Bay to Cape Lookout (1585)
North American coast at the time of John Smith and William
Bradford (1610)
http://cedar.barnard.columbia.edu/~history/maritime/atlas/IMG032.HTM
Attack on the Pequot Village at Mystic, Connecticut
Benjamin Franklin, 24 years old
Benjamin Franklin, 60 years old
Benjamin Franklin, 61 years old
Track of Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states/Exploration_1800.jpg
US map of territorial acquisitions, 1803-1853