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Insulæ Americae in Oceano Septentrionali ac regiones.

Description: Map shows southeastern North America as Florida with colony of Virginia, Pacific and Gulf coasts of Central America, northern coast of South America, and the West Indies. Includes illustrations. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given. Map is from the Atlas Minor by Visscher.
Date: [1670..1690]
Creator: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Waller Family Coat of Arms

Description: Print of the Waller family coat of arms. Painted by Odine Mhoon. Odine was married to Sam Rayburn's nephew Morris Lightfoot in 1956. They divorced and Morris eventually remarried. The ivory colored paper displays the Waller coat of arms in shades of brown, black, gold, gray, white, blue, green and red. A shield at center shows three gold walnut leaves between two silver bands. At the top is a walnut tree with a pendant shoing three fleurs de lis (the arms of France) with the motto above, "… more
Date: 1850/1969
Creator: Odine Mhoon
Partner: Sam Rayburn House State Historical Site

[Spanish] Florida.

Description: Map shows late seventeenth century geographical misconception of Spanish Florida territory in North America. Appalachian Mountain range, two lakes, and numerous rivers of the Mississippi basin are depicted. Relief shown pictorially. No scale provided.
Date: 1678
Creator: Duval, Pierre
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Idea naturalis Americae Borealis digito dei formata geographice proposita an MDCC.

Description: Map shows southern and eastern portions of North America, Central America, the northeast coast of South America, the Caribbean islands, and California (depicted as an island). Includes illustrations of animals, birds, plants, and sea creatures in subtitle cartouche and dispersed across map; global hemisphere atop title. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1700
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

America noviter delineata

Description: Map of North and South America showing political boundaries and place names. Includes inset of Greenland and illustrations of ships and sea monsters.
Date: 1633
Creator: Merian, Matthaeus
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Pervviae avriferae regionis typus.

Description: Map shows portion of Central America, northwestern South America, southern United States, and coast of Tamaulipas in Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Scales differ.
Date: 1584
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

America Septentrionalis : concinnata juxta observationes Dñn Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullorum aliorum, et juxta annotationes recentissimas.

Description: Map shows known extent of North America from Greenland and Baffin Bay to New Spain and Panama; northern coast of South America, the West indies, California, and the Sargasso Sea; explorers' routes along the Pacific coast of California and New Spain, and areas of Native American habitation. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1758..1760]
Creator: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Americae septentrionalis pars I.

Description: Map shows "Louisania" [French Louisiana], "Tecas" [Texas], New Navare and New Mexico, "Great Space of Land unknown," settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: [Map of Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay and adjacent lands]; in upper left corner: "This scale is half of the other." Includes dates and names of explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.
Date: [1750..1770]
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mappa geographica complectens, I. Indiae occidentalem, II. Isthmum Panamensem, III. Ichnographiam præcipuorum locorum & portuum ad has terras pertinentium : Desumta omnia ex Historia Insulæ S. Dominici & pro præsenti statu belli, quod est 1740 inter Anglos & Hispanos exortum.

Description: Map shows European possessions, cities, settlements, and notable physical features; fortification, streets, buildings, and harbor layout for cities in mid-eighteenth century Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes keys to select points on city maps, color key to European possessions. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scales not given.
Date: 1740
Creator: Homann Erben (Firm)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mappa geographica complectens, I. Indiae occidentalem, II. Isthmum Panamensem, III. Ichnographiam præcipuorum locorum & portuum ad has terras pertinentium : Desumta omnia ex Historia Insulæ S. Dominici & pro præsenti statu belli, quod est 1740 inter Anglos & Hispanos exortum.

Description: Map shows European possessions, cities, settlements, and notable physical features; fortification, streets, buildings, and harbor layout for cities in mid-eighteenth century Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Includes keys to select points on city maps, color key to European possessions. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scales not given.
Date: 1740
Creator: Homann Erben (Firm)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Vetus Mexico.

Description: Map shows birdseye Venice-like view of Mexico City surrounded by Lake Texcoco. Includes key to points on the map. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1671
Creator: Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Millionth volume added to Willis Library]

Description: Photograph of a page from the millionth volume to be added to the NTSU Library. The page is worn around the edges and on it are illuminations and a song in Latin with the notes above the words. At the top of the page is an inscription that reads "S. Benedicti M. V." and on the back of the print is a handwritten note that reads "A. M. Willis, Jr. Library Library's 1,000,000th volume".
Date: September 1974
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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