The upper reaches of Frost Bank Tower, a prominent Austin, Texas, skys...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 33-story building was developed by Cousins Properties from November 2001 to December 2003. It was the first high- rise building t... more
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... more
Grand Rounds Scenic Byway - Huge Lego Spaceship in the Mall of America
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A lego spaceman hovers in the air above mall walkers. Location: Location: Minnesota (44.854° N 93.243° W) Status: Public domain. Photo... more
Hackberry General Store, Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... more
Stained glass in Neiman Marcus store, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. This stain glass in Neiman Marcus on Union Square, was once in The City of Paris store. The architectural centerpiece of the building is the original rotu... more
Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... more
Neon sign at the Horseshoe Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... more
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... more
Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... more
Mardi Gras Parade, New Orleans, Louisiana
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Mardi Gras is organized by Carnival krewes. Krewe float riders toss throws to the crowds; the most common are strings of plastic colorful beads, doubloons... more
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its role ... more
Memorial Church on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Califo...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Pr... more
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse of the Durango & Silverton Narrow ...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... more
America
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century ?
America from The Four Continents
Julius Goltzius (Netherlandish, died ca. 1595)
Cosmographiae introductio
Martin Waldseemüller has been recognized as the first European cartographer to depict the New World discoveries as a separate continent, which he named "America." Waldseemüller was a member of a small group of ... more
Orbis typus uniuersalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem
Waldseemüller may have had second thoughts about his 1507 proposal for naming the new continent "America." In 1513, he issued a fourth publication, a new edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. In it he incl... more
![Tipus orbis uniuersalis iuxta Ptolomei cosmographi traditionem et Americi Vespucii alior[um]que](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn27/L3Bob3RvLzE1MjAvMDEvMDEvdGlwdXMtb3JiaXMtdW5pdWVyc2FsaXMtaXV4dGEtcHRvbG9tZWktY29zbW9ncmFwaGktdHJhZGl0aW9uZW0tZXQtYW1lcmljaS12ZXNwdWNpaS1mZTFjMzMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "Tipus orbis uniuersalis iuxta Ptolomei cosmographi traditionem et Americi Vespucii alior[um]que")
Tipus orbis uniuersalis iuxta Ptolomei cosmographi traditionem et Amer...
Although in his later publications Waldseemüller apparently retracted his depiction of a separate continent named America, other publishers quickly accepted his initial concept and imitated the shapes and nome... more
![Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m] &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE1MjQvMDEvMDEvcHJhZWNsYXJhLWZlcmRpbmFuZGktY29ydGVzaWktZGUtbm91YS1tYXJpcy1vY2VhbmktaHlzcGFuaWEtbmFycmF0aW8tc2FjcmF0aXNzaW1vLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "Praeclara Ferdina[n]di Cortesii de noua maris oceani Hyspania narratio sacratissimo, ac inuictissimo Carolo Romanoru[m] Imperatori semper Augusto, Hyspaniaru[m] &c. Regi anno Domini M.D.XX. transmissa")
Oceani occidetalis seu terre nove tabula
Ocenunus occidentalis Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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
Eastern South America from BL Royal 20 E IX, f. 28
Map of the Eastern part of the South America and of a part of the Tierra del Fuego. Image taken from f. 28 of Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas'). Written in English.
Eastern South America from BL Royal 20 E IX, ff. 27v-28
Map of the eastern part of the South America and a part of the Tierra del Fuego. Image taken from ff. 27v-28 of Boke of Idrography (The 'Rotz Atlas'). Written in English.
Universale della nuovamente parte del mondo ritrovata
Relief shown pictorially. In upper left corner: 455. In upper right corner: 456. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio
Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio
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
La Florida
Pervviæ avriferæ regionis typis | Gvastecan Reg Courtesy of Boston Public Library
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
Le novveav monde descovvert et illvstre de nostre temps
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Includes illustrations and notes. LC copy mounted on cloth. Gift ; Lessing J. Rosenwald ; June 29, 1948. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Americae siue noui orbis, noua descriptio
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
Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus...
Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Pictorial map. Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay. From Thomas Hariot's A br... 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
Titelpagina van het pamflet: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel...
Titelprent van een pamflet getiteld: Den Spaenschen ende Arragoenschen spiegel. Inde welcke men mach claerlick ende waerachtich sien tot wat eynde ... het voornemen is ... van 't Spaensche Crijchsvolck, dat hem... more
America
Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604–1676 Paris)
America (part of a set of four)
The scene on these plates (59.208.30–.33) are copied from engravings by Cornelis van Daten the Younger (1638–1664) of designs by Dirk Barentsz (1534–1592). After a composition by Cornelis van Daten the Younger ... more
![New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzE2MDAvMDEvMDEvbmV3LWludmVudGlvbnMtb2YtbW9kZXJuLXRpbWVzLW5vdmEtcmVwZXJ0YS10aGUtZGlzY292ZXJ5LW9mLWFtZXJpY2EtcGxhdGUtYTc1NzYyLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1")
![New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzE2MDAvMDEvMDEvbmV3LWludmVudGlvbnMtb2YtbW9kZXJuLXRpbWVzLW5vdmEtcmVwZXJ0YS10aGUtZGlzY292ZXJ5LW9mLWFtZXJpY2EtcGxhdGUtOWFlNzVkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1")
![New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn2/L3Bob3RvLzE2MDAvMDEvMDEvbmV3LWludmVudGlvbnMtb2YtbW9kZXJuLXRpbWVzLW5vdmEtcmVwZXJ0YS10aGUtZGlzY292ZXJ5LW9mLWFtZXJpY2EtcGxhdGUtODAwZDA3LTEwMjQuanBn/40/28/webp "New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1")
Lion Hunt ("America")
Probably by Leonardus Quesi
America
Amerique Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Vrouw uit Virginia
Speelkaart met een voorstelling van een staande vrouw in exotische dracht uit Virginia. Tekst in ondermarge. Genummerd linksboven: 9.
America, noviter delineata
Relief shown pictorially. Includes insets of Greenland and Antarctica and ill. of native figures and town views in margins. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Acquisition... more
![[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Orinoco rivers. Illus. with dwellings, boats, animals; Indians killing boa]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE2MjQvMDEvMDEvbWFwLW9mLW5vcnRoZXJuLWNvYXN0LW9mLXMtYW1lcmljYS1zaG93aW5nLW1vdXRocy1vZi1hbWF6b24tYW5kLW9yaW5vY28tcml2ZXJzLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/24/webp "[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Orinoco rivers. Illus. with dwellings, boats, animals; Indians killing boa]")
[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Ori...
Illus. in: Reys-Boeck van het rijcke, Brasilien (Dordrecht?,1624). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Maps; South America; Snakes; Braz... more
Virginia /
Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
New England.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault
A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World: Viz. Asia, Affrica, ...
John Speed (British, Farndon, Cheshire 1551/52–1629 London)
America, siue, India Nova : ad magnae Gerardi Mercatoris aui vniversal...
America, sive, India Nova Courtesy of Boston Public Library
America nouiter delineata
America noviter delineata Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the man...
The village of the Pequot Indians which was attacked and destroyed by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason in 1637. Illus. in: Nevves from America / John Underhill. London : Printed by J.D. for Peter Cole, [...]... more
Title page of John Underhill, Newes from America, London, J.D. for Pet...
Illus. in: John Underhill, Newes from America, London, J.D. for Peter Cole, 1638, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indians Wars Pequ... more
![[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvbWFwLW9mLWF0bGFudGljLWNvYXN0LW9mLW5vcnRoLWFtZXJpY2EtZnJvbS10aGUtY2hlc2FwZWFrZS1iYXktdG8tZmxvcmlkYS05ODkzMTktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida].")
[Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Flo...
Shows coastal features, Native American nations and settlements, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons by comparison with his other Dutch maps in Henry Harr... more
Noort Rivier in Niew Neerlandt.
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to Albany, natural features, and other geographical entities in the region. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attribut... more
Caert vande Svydt Rivier in Niew Nederland.
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows the region of the Delaware Bay and river, natural features, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Attributed to Joan Vinckeboons... more
America noviter delineata /
Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes insets of north and south polar regions. Acquisitions control no. 3-85
Chest
Probably made in New Haven, Connecticut, United States
America, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie)
Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
Virginia, from 'Game of Geography' (Jeu de la Géographie)
Etched by Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
Mulier ex Virginia
Vrouw uit Virginia, Amerika. Overgenomen van Thoedor de Bry, naar tekening van John white in Thomas Harriot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virgina, Frankfurt, 1590.
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae
Published by Nicolas Joannis Visscher (Dutch, 17th century)
America Septentrionalis /
Relief shown pictorially. Appears in v. 3 of Nieuwen atlas, ofte vverelt-beschrijvinge, vertonende de voornaemste rijcken ende landen des gheheelen Aerdt-Bodems. Amstelodami : Apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1652-3. E... more
Americae nova descriptio
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Americae nova tabula
Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Nova America descriptio
Relief shown pictorially. Sheet issued as part of a set of 5 maps; one map covers entire world and 4 maps cover individual continents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ... more
West-Indische paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over weder zijden...
Shows the west coast of North America from Belle Isle, Newfoundland, both coasts of South America, mediterranean Europe, and the east coast of Africa. Includes illustrations. Available also through the Library ... more
Nova totivs Americae descriptio
Nova totius Americae descriptio Courtesy of Boston Public Library