western hemisphere

Jan van der Straet - Map of the Western Hemisphere

Title plate to Nova Reperta, a series of engravings after drawings by Stradanus published by Galle in Antwerp. Shows Christopher Columbus pointing to a map of the Western Hemisphere. New France and Florida are ... More

Map of America by Diego Ribero 1529.

Spanish; title in English. Pen-and-ink and blue watercolor, mounted on cloth, mounted on paper. Traced from a map by Diego Ribero. On label affixed in upper right corner: 41. Available also through the Library ... More

Die neuwen Inseln, so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India...

Relief shown pictorially. South America labeled in German, geographic features otherwise in Latin. Appears in the author's Cosmographei. Basel, Switzerland. 1550. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More

Tabula nouarum insularum, quas diuersis respectibus Occidentales & Ind...

Relief shown pictorially. Has the word "Americam" in South America. Appears in the author's Cosmographiae universalis. Basel, Switzerland. 1559. Woodcut. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined. M... More

Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio /

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Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius 1527-1598

Ortelius's map of the Americas was one of the most identifiable and most famous cartographic representations of the western hemisphere created during the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography. It enjoyed great popula... More

Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Second state. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 95-34 Vault

Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio, Abraham Ortelius

In 1587, Ortelius revised the map of the Americas that appeared in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The changes found on this second edition are more extensive than generally thought, and are evidence of the care t... More

America sive novvs orbis respectv Evropaeorvm inferior globi terrestri...

America sive novus orbis respectu Europaeorum inferior globi terrestris pars Courtesy of Boston Public Library

America. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 165. Includes notes, ill., and cartouche with text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

Recentissima novi orbis sive Americae septentrionalis et meridionalis ...

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Recentissima novi orbis sive Americae septentrionalis et meridionalis ...

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Americae sive novi orbis proximarvmqz regionum orae descriptio

Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to: Johannes Metellus. Appears in the author's Speculum orbis terrae, 1602. Described in: The mapping of North America / Philip D. Burden. 1996. p. 176-7. Latin text on vers... More

America, Jodocus Hondius - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Amerique Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and...

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America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversal...

America, sive, India Nova Courtesy of Boston Public Library

America, siue, India Nova.

America nouiter delineata - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

America noviter delineata Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio : quam ex magna universali Gerardi...

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America noviter delineata - Gerhard Mercator 1512-1594

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America noviter delineata - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

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Americae nova tabula (Willem Janszoon Blaeu 1571-1638)

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A new, plaine, and exact map of America : described by N.I. Visscher, ...

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Americae - Jan van Den Velde - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Nova totius Americae sive novi orbis tabula Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Carte de l'Amerique : corrigeé, et augmenteé, dessus toutes les aultre...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Carte generale de France et de ses nouuelles acquisitions. Paris, 1661. Includes inset of the north pole region, inset of the south pole region, text in margin ... More

Americae - Jan van Den Velde - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Nova totius Americae sive novi orbis tabula Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Nieuwe Werelt kaert nautical chart - Public domain map

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Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio - Vintage map, N...

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A new mapp of America devided according to the best and latest observa...

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio - Vintage map, N...

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Americae nova discriptio - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Vincenzo Coronelli - Planisfero del mondo nuovo - Vintage map, Norman ...

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Americae tam septentrionalis quam meridionalis in mappa geographica de...

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Americam utramque : aliis correctiorem /

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Dedicated to "Iacobo Boreel" by G. van Keulen. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisitions control no. 10-87 Vault

L'Amérique Septentrionale & Meridionale divisée en ses principales p...

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Carte du Gouvernement de l'Amerique - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal...

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Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima repraesentat...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Neuer atlas bestehend in auserlesenen und allerneuesten land-charten über die gantze Welt. Nuremburg, 1707. Includes cartouche with text and title cartouche. Ve... More

America Septentrionalis novissima : America Meridionalis accuratissima...

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America in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa ad observationes Academ...

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Totius Americae descriptio nova - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Col...

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L'Amerique, ou, Le nouveau continent : dresseè sur les memoires les pl...

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A new map of America from the latest observations

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Carte d'Amerique : dressée pour l'usage du Roy

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L'Amerique, meridionale, et septentrionale - Vintage map, Norman B. Le...

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L'Amerique meridionale et septentrionale : dressèe sur les nouvles. de...

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Novus orbis sive America Meridionalis et Septentrionalis, per sua regn...

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America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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L'Amérique - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Carte d'Amerique : dressée pour l'usage du roy

America accuraté in imperia, regna, status & populos divisa, ad usum Ludovici, XV, Gallirum Regis Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Les Colonies des Européens en Amerique - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...

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Isaak Tirion - Nieuwe kaart van America uitgegeven te Amsterdam

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Americae mappa generalis : secundum legitimas projectionis stereograph...

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Carta del nuovo continente : nella maggior sua lunghezza diametrale da...

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L'Amerique, divisée en tous ses pays et etats : dressée sur de nouveau...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the left. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 133 Includes inset of eastern and western hemispheres, text, and cartouche. Available also through the L... More

Nieuwe kaart van het westelykste deel der weereld, dienende tot aanwyz...

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The Earth's Western planisphere - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Col...

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L'Amerique divisée par grand etats - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal...

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America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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A new general map of America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

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Western Hemisphere. From the book: A journal of a voyage to the South ...

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Carte d'Amerique divisées en ses principales parties

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Chart of the track of the Dolphin, Tamar, Swallow & Endeavour through ...

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A new projection of the Western Hemisphere of the Earth on a plane : s...

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A new projection of the Western Hemisphere of the Earth on a plane : (...

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Carte d'Amerique dressée pour l'usage du Roy.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Nle. carte d'Amerique : dressée sur les mémoires les plus récens et as...

Relief shown pictorially. Originally published in 1770. Prime meridian: Ferro. Gift; Raymond Nasher; October, 1998. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of t... More

New World, or, Western Hemisphere ; Old World, or, Eastern Hemisphere.

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A map of the world on a globular projection : exhibiting particularly ...

Arrowsmith, a prominent English map maker and publisher, had a reputation for producing accurate and updated maps. His world map published in 1794 specifically delineated the voyages of Capt. James Cook during ... More

A map of the world from the best authorities

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Géographie de l'Amérique - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collecti...

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Western Hemisphere. - Public domain map drawing

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America / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows major cities, political divisions, physical features, and areas of Indian habitation; Mississippi River as boundary between [French] Louisiana and the United States; Greenland, i... More

Western hemisphere - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Karte von America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Westliche halbkugel - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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America : nach Arrowsmith, Brué und Lapie mit Benutzung der neuesten-...

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Carte du nouveau continent : selon sa plus grande longueur diametrale ...

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Diagram from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth c...

This image has been taken from scan 000264 from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century, with notices of the early settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere. [With maps.]". The ... More

map from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth centu...

This image has been taken from scan 000200 from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century, with notices of the early settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere. [With maps.]". The ... More

map from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth centu...

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century, with notices of the early settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere. [With maps.]". The ... More

The World, on the globular projection with a graduation for the measur...

This world map, published primarily for educational purposes, locates missionary activity in the United States and around the world. It also provides a global perspective for understanding the origins of the Af... More

Eclipse of the sun, 1846 : April 25 /

"Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York February 21, 1846." Includes notes and world map showing path of eclipse. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a rast... More

America : Nach Arrowsmith, Brué und Lapie mit Benutzung der neuesten ...

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Amerika - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Map of the Western Hemisphere (from Sketchbook)

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Map of the Western Hemisphere (from Sketchbook)

James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)

Discovery of the American contintent by Americus / Frank Bellews, del....

Print shows Amerigo Vespucci and others greeting natives upon landing in the Americas. Illus. in: The life and voyages of Americus Vespucius, with illustrations concerning the navigator, and the discovery of th... More

Amerikē / Historic map, Library of Congress

Covers North America and South America (Western Hemisphere). In Greek. Hand col. to emphasize country boundaries. LC copy imperfect: Annotated on cloth backing in lead pencil "America" and "27697". Includes ins... More

America - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Columbus explaining his discovery to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella...

Illustration shows Christopher Columbus pointing to a spot on a map while Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain look on. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. XII, no. 596 (1868 May 30), cover.

Metal Awl (FOUS 903) - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Metal awls like this one were brought to America by Europeans, who had been using them since the Iron Age. In the Western Hemisphere, American Indians had also used awls to puncture holes into tough animal hide... More

Unloading merchandise at a Peruvian port; Buenos Aires, a port second ...

Date based on date of negatives in same series. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.go... More

Three million aliens in this country, senate committee told. Washingto...

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Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent t...

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Transformer manufacture. These completed power transformers are sent t...

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Azimuthal equidistant projection centered on Bogotá, Colombia. 3-66.

Scale ca. 1:21,000,000. Shows radial distances. "53250." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Entire Western Hemisphere visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft

AS08-16-2593 (21-27 Dec. 1968) --- A striking view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft showing nearly the entire Western Hemisphere, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, including nearby Newfoundland, extending t... More