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Carte réduite des isles de la Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, et les Saintes : Dressée au Depost des cartes, plans et journaux de la marine. Pour le service des vaisseaux du roy. Par ordre de M. Berryer, ministre et secretaire d'Etat aiant le Department de la Marine.

Description: Map shows parish boundaries, towns, settlements, forts, points of anchorage, roads, coastal detail, and lesser islands and atolls. Includes "Explication des Marques." Inset: "Environs du Fort Louis a l'entree du petit cul de sac de la Guadeloupe." Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1759
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amplissimæ regionis Mississipi seu provinciæ Ludovicianæ a R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687. detectæ, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionum negotiis toto orbe celeberrimæ nova tabula.

Description: Map shows areas of Native American habitation, settlements, and explorers' routes to 1716, through French Louisiana, Florida, New England and the British colonies, part of Canada, Nouveau Mexique [New Mexico] and northeastern portion of New Spain. Three of the Great Lakes are also shown. Includes legend and illustrations. Insets [illustrations]: "Catarrhacta ad Niagarum [Niagara Falls]," [Father Louis], and [Buffalo pictured with Native Americans]. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scal… more
Date: [1759..1781]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae, Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae, Pensylvaniae, necnon insvlarvm archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali..

Description: Map shows cities, towns, and geographical details of Mexico, the West Indies, and Florida as known during the late eighteenth century. Includes historical notes. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000].
Date: [1759..1784]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

L'Amérique septentrionale.

Description: Map shows major European settlements, colonies, and areas of Native American habitation in North and Central America and the West Indies; Mexico, New Mexico, French Louisiana, coastal Califronia; northwestern portion of continent as "Terre Inconnues"; Hudson and Baffin Bays, Greenland, and surroundings in inset. Inset: [Map of Terres Artiques]. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:12,500,000].
Date: 1757
Creator: Cóvens et Mortier
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu provinciae Ludovicianae a R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687 detectae, nunc Gallorum coloniis et actionum negotiis toto orbe celeberrimae nova tabula.

Description: Map shows areas of Native American habitation, settlements, and explorers' routes to 1716, through French Louisiana, Florida, New England and the British colonies, part of Canada, Nouveau Mexique [New Mexico] and northeastern portion of New Spain. Three of the Great Lakes are also shown. Includes legend and illustrations. Insets [illustrations]: "Catarrhacta ad Niagarum [Niagara Falls]," [Father Louis], and [Buffalo pictured with Native Americans]. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Scal… more
Date: [1759..1781]
Creator: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. Dedicado a la Catholica Magestad de Don Fernando VI Rey de España, y de las Yndias, por sus mas rendidos, y fieles vasallos, Thomas Lopez, y Juan de la Cruz [Sheet 1].

Description: Map shows the settlements and details of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida and Mexico to the northern portion of South America, for a portion of the Pacific coast of New Spain, and for the West Indies. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1755
Creator: López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mapa maritimo del Golfo de Mexico e islas de la America, para el uso de los navegantes en esta parte del mundo, construido sobre las mexores memorias, y observaciones astronomicas de longitudes, y latitudes. Dedicado a la Catholica Magestad de Don Fernando VI Rey de España, y de las Yndias, por sus mas rendidos, y fieles vasallos, Thomas Lopez, y Juan de la Cruz [Sheet 2].

Description: Map shows the settlements and details of the coastline along the Gulf of Mexico from Florida and Mexico to the northern portion of South America, for a portion of the Pacific coast of New Spain, and for the West Indies. Depths shown by soundings. Scale not given.
Date: 1755
Creator: López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Map of the interior of North America and New Spain: Sheet 1]

Description: Map shows roads, wooded areas, swamps, and settlements; areas of Native American habitation and the route of the Spanish Galleons. Includes notes and dates of exploration/discovery. Inset: "P. Eusebius Franz Kino aus der G.J. endeckte zwishen dem 1698 und 1701 J. dass Californien eine Halbinsel sey." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1758..1778]
Location: None
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Etching and engraving "David Tenier's House"]

Description: Etching and engraving of "David Tenier's House" published on August 15, 1757. The design was attribute to Dutch miniaturist David Eniers the Younger (1610-1690) and was printed by English printmaker Thomas Major (1720-1799). The image shows a large manor house on the right edge of a river bank with a bridge arching over the river. A group of three fisherman are gathered on the shore in the foreground communicating the scale of the rest of the scene to the viewer.
Date: August 15, 1757
Creator: Major, Thomas & Eniers the Younger, David
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Figure de la ville de Jerusalem.

Description: Map shows buildings inside Jerusalem. According to its French inscription, this map purports to show how Jerusalem and its environs looked from the time of David, ca. 1010 B.C. until its destruction at the time of Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. The map was intended to help illuminate the third chapter of the Bible book of Nehemia, and it possibly came from a seventeenth century French Huguenot or Swiss Protestant Bible. Relief shown pictorially. Includes legend. Text in French, building names a… more
Date: 1750?
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Folding fan

Description: Folding fan. Sticks and guards of openwork wood interwoven with pink, blue, and white ribbon. Three applied oval paper figurals: two female at sides with center scene of three figures gardening(?).
Date: 1750/1825
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Jacket and breeches

Description: Man’s coat and breeches of green silk narrow striped embroidered in white and pink floral motif. A) Long coat with covered embroidered buttons and beige silk cuffs with embroidery and covered buttons. Lined in silk satin and linen. B) Breeches of self, drop front, full seat, knee-length.
Date: 1750/1780
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Embroidered waistcoat

Description: Men's waistcoat of white silk with multicolored silk floral embroidery. High neckline, sleeveless, center front closure with buttons of self. Along center front, neckline, bottom hem, and angled shallow hip pockets is floral embroidery in dark pink, greens, yellow, and blue creating stylized sprays and leaves at regular intervals, with smaller repeating motifs on an angled grid along all front. Back of waistcoat of white cotton.
Date: 1750/1789
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Vest

Description: Long waistcoat of green silk satin with supplemental weft stripe and supplemental warp creating the effect of floral embroidery. Self-covered buttons are hidden under front placket. Crescent shaped pockets have scalloped flaps. Backed in green and white striped fabric.
Date: 1750/1760
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Chopine

Description: Antique chopine or clog hand carved of wood two inches high w/ top of platform decorated with mother of pearl inlay - three straps or thongs missing.
Date: 1750/1899
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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