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La Louisiana, Coronelli, 1690 Coronelli, a French cartographer for Louis XIV, receives credit as the first person to show the Great Lakes accurately and in their relative positions. Coronelli had access, through Louis XIV, to the latest manuscript maps of French explorers and priests. |
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Carte Du Canada ou de la Novelle France, Guillaume Delisle, ca. 1717 Map shows improved delineation of the Great Lakes over earlier maps. Lake Michigan is labeled "Lac Illinois" and Lake Huron is "Michigane." |
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Nouvelle Carte de Particuliere de L'Ameriqueca , Henry Popple, 1733-1740 The map, with unusual shapes for Lakes Superior and Ontario, also includes, a "high plain" in Michigan. |
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Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada, Jacques Nicolas Bellin A cartographic landmark of the region. Noteworthy for the introduction of the island in Lake Superior, which remain on maps for nearly a century. The map summarizees the French knowledge of the region and shows the river systems discovered by French explorers, forts and settlements, and Indian villages. The chart incorporates the work of Sieur de La Verendrye, the last of the great French explorers in North America. First issued by Bellin in 1745 and re-issued b the Homann Heirs on the eve of the French and Indian War. |
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Partie Occidentale du Canada et Septentrionale de la Louisiane avec une partie de la Pensilvanie, D'Anville, 1775 Map showing North America at the time of the American Revolution. Lake Superior contains three non-existent islands. |
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Karte von Hauptman Reisse in den innern Sheilen von Nord Amerika, ca. 1780 German-language version of map of Captain Jonathan Carver (1710-1780) of his 1766-67 travels showing Michigan, Wisconsin, and portions of Minnesota. The English version was first published in 1778. Various areas of the maps are labeled with the names of the Native Americans who lived there. Among represented locations are Fort Michilimackinac and to the south "Askin's Farm." |
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Lac des Hurons, L. A. Lahontan, Amersterdam, 1705 Captain Louis-Armand de Lom d'arce de Lahontan depicted the settlement at St. Ignace in 1688. This is a ca. 1705 version of his map that first appeared in his 1703 book, New Voyages to North-America (as the later English translation was known). North is to the left of the map. |
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A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary and Michilimackinac to Show the Situation & Importance of the two Westernmost Settlements of Canada for the Fur Trade, The London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, 1761 This early English view of the Straits of Mackinac and St. Mary's River shows details of the surrounding area and the relationship of the Straits to the surrounding lakes. The map was based on earlier French maps, notably the one by Bellin (see above). |
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Michilimackinac I. Showing the Surveys of Private Claims, J. Mullet, 1828 In 1828 John Mullett (1786-1862) completed an official land survey of Mackinac Island. The survey recorded for the first time fifteen rivate claims of property on the island. In the following years numerous copies were made from the original map in the General Land Office in Washington that was produced as part of the survey. This is one of two manuscript copies in the commission's collection. It was made in 1845 and "sent to Capt. [Silas] Casey at Fort Mackinac." |
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