Resource Type

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Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem Landt Indie ligen

Hand-drawn color map of the New World with place names in Latin, title in German. This is the earliest known map of the Americas. Drawings depict Magellan's ship Victoria and a cannibal scene in Brazil.
Date: unknown
Creator: Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Map showing route of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway]

Hand drawn map showing routes of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway including Texas counties and cities, rivers and topography of part of Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Arkansas. On the back of the map is text in German encouraging German Catholic colonization to Pilot Point.
Date: 1891
Creator: Rand McNally and Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Karte von der Erdenge Panama und den Provinzen Veragua, Terra Firma und Darien

Color map of Panama and surrounding areas. Some towns are marked as well as bodies of water and geographic features with relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris.
Date: 1754
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
System: The Portal to Texas History