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The World

Description: Page from atlas includes maps of both hemispheres along with a description of navigators from 1482-1790: "Chronological account of the most celebrated modern navigators".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

The World, with the Tracts & Discoveries of the Latest Navigators.

Description: This map shows the entire world, broken down into two hemispheres (with are connected circles). The western hemisphere is shown to the left and the eastern hemisphere is to the right. Continents, some countries and major cities, and bodies of water are marked and labeled. Additionally, the routes of Captain Cook and other explorers of the late 1700s are noted and labeled.
Date: 1820
Creator: Kelly, Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of the World Based on U.S. Expeditions]

Description: This sheet includes three separate maps. At the top and bottom of the page, there are circular, connected hemisphere maps showing the east and west hemispheres, and north and south hemispheres respectively. A note at the head of the page says, "The track laid down on Map no. 1, is that of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, in the voyage round the world performed in the years 1838, 39, 40, 41 and 42. The arrows indicate the directions sailed." Continents are labeled and shaded in color. Geograph… more
Date: 1852
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The World on a Globular Projection

Description: This sheet includes a map of the northern and southern hemispheres shown as connected circles. The continents are shaded in colors and labeled including some countries, cities, and bodies of water. At the bottom of the page is "A Chart, exhibiting the progress of Christianity from the birth of our Saviour to the present time" broken down by continents.
Date: October 13, 1830
Creator: D.F. Robinson & Co. (Hartford, Conn.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Principal Ocean Trade Routes of the World

Description: This map shows the world with major trade routes marked. The routes are shown in red lines and black dotted lines with labels and some notes regarding transit times. Major cities and exports are labeled; bodies of water and geographic features are also marked (with relief shown in hachures). There is text beneath the map labeled "Questions on the Map." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. On the back of the map there are two pages of text. On the left, the text is titled "Physical G… more
Date: 1885
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Commercial Map of the World

Description: This sheet includes multiple maps; on the front is a commercial map of the world. The commercial map is color-coded to show different aspects of commerce (the key is in the lower right corner) and also uses red and black lines to mark trade and communication routes as well as ocean currents (the key is in the lower left corner). Additionally, red text marks the locations of products and industries across the world. Bodies of water and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hach… more
Date: 1890~
Creator: Hinman, Russell, 1853-1912
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map to Illustrate Early Voyages and Discoveries of North America

Description: This map shows North and Central America and surrounding areas including portions of South America, Africa, and Europe. Notes and lines are used to show the path of exploration across the Atlantic Ocean and within North America including the names and dates of the explorers. Continents are shaded in color and some major cities and bodies of water are marked on the map. An inset in the lower left corner shows only the eastern portion of North and South America (including the Caribbean) and is… more
Date: 1885
Creator: A. S. Barnes & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A New and Accurate Map of the World, Comprehending all the New Discoveries, in Both Hemispheres, carefully brought down to the Present Time.

Description: This map shows the entire world in two round depictions of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, respectively. Each of the major regions is outlined, shaded, and labeled. Major rivers and islands are marked. There are several small drawings around the outside of the map showing "Geographical Circles," the "Solar System," and the "Terrestrial Globe."
Date: unknown
Creator: Baldwyn, George Augustus
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

1941: Texas Goes to War

Description: This book is a collection of essays discussing the role of Texans in World War II. It examines both the Texas soldiers fighting in the European and Pacific theaters as well as the Texans on the Homefront. The essays describe both the military and social aspects of the war. Index starts on page 241.
Date: 1991
Creator: Lee, James Ward; Barnes, Carolyn N.; Bowman, Kent A. & Crow, Laura
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[Collection of Travel Maps]

Description: Nine maps depicting the travels of the author to accompany his journals. The first map shows routes through parts of the Middle East and Asia with references to the Orenburgh Expedition. The second map shows routes in Northern Europe and parts of Russia, including towns in Prussia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The third map shows various portions of the Volga River in four separate, overlapping insets with nearby towns noted. The fourth map shows an area around the Eastern Ocean including … more
Date: 1762
Creator: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Heinrich Weltner: Graphite Pencil Artist

Description: Book about Heinrich Weltner, including a biography for Weltner, detailed information about his graphite drawings, and the genealogy of the Weltner family. The index begins on page 45.
Date: 2009
Creator: Stappenbeck, Herb & Funke, Patricia
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Anne and Mike Stewart Collection

[Gayle Cruthirds World War II Flight Log]

Description: Flight log created by Gayle Cruthirds, member of the 376th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, documenting his bombing missions over Italy and Eastern Europe between May 17, 1944 through September 20, 1944. Cruthirds discusses dates, flight times, mission location, weather, presence of flak and fighters, types of planes, and notes specific to each mission.
Date: 1944
Creator: Cruthirds, Gayle
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: The History Center

Tire Shrinker to Dragster

Description: Collection of Texas, Jamaican and Irish folklore, including stories about drag racing, treasure hunting, frontier preachers, Irish storytellers, mock bidding in Jamaica, and more. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1968
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

The world in hemispheres : with other projections &c.

Description: Map shows six continents, major islands, and major cities as known during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes graphic comparison of the worlds rivers. Insets: The World on a polar projection - North Polar Region - Land and water hemispheres. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1860
Creator: Williams, W. (Wellington)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the world.

Description: Map shows six continents with some political subdivisions, line demarcating Oceanica, Australasia, and Polynesia; Australia as New Holland; major deserts. Includes references and three circles explaining parallels, meridians, and physical land and water features. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1826
Creator: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A New and correct chart of the Atlantick [sic] Ocean reduced describing part of the coasts of Europe, Africa and America, with their adjacent islands.

Description: Map shows Great Britain, the western coast of Europe and North Africa, the eastern coast of North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the northern coast of South America, and the islands and atolls in the Caribbean Sea. Depths shown by bathymetric tints. Scale not given.
Date: 1728
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Transatlantic Steamship Routes: Supplement to the Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, January, 1893.

Description: Map shows southern and northern routes across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America with coordinates of points along routes. Includes text, tables, compass, "Proposed New York-Gibraltar steamship routes," "Table of distances in nautical miles, from New York and Boston to Fastnet and Bishops Rock," "Latitudes of Great Circle Intersections on the Porposed Routes," and "Proposed Steamship Routes between New York and the Straits of Gibraltar." Also includes detailed navigational instr… more
Date: 1893
Creator: United States. Hydrographic Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A map of the sacred geography taken from the Old and New Testament containing most of ye then known parts of the world and by whom peopled.

Description: Map shows northern Africa, Aphet [central and eastern Europe], and Shem [the Middle East], including the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Inset: "The incampments of the Israelites in the desart." Includes notes. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:13,750,000]. Appeared in John Baskett's the Holy Bible, vol. 1.
Date: 1717
Creator: Senex, John, d. 1740
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Atlantic Ocean &c. shewing [sic.] the communication between Europe, North America and the Pacific.

Description: Map shows major existing and proposed railroads in the United States and Canada, Chagres Railway across Panama, transatlantic cables, steam and sailing routes, currents, and the Sargaso Sea. Includes travel times and distances for various routes, dates of cables. Scale [ca. 1:27,500,000].
Date: [1874..1889]
Creator: Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

A new map of America from the latest authorities.

Description: Map shows North America, South America, Greenland, Western Europe, and Africa. Areas of Native American habitation are noted and the Rocky Mountains are labeled "the Stony Mountains." Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1806
Creator: Cary, John, ca. 1754-1835
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The world.

Description: Map shows geographical features and major cities in North America, South America, Oceania, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Map is from General Atlas of the World [1854]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Adam and Charles Black
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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