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Discover the past of the United States through vintage maps in our online collection of old historical maps that span over 300 years of growth. View US Maps such as historical country and state boundaries changes as well as old vintage maps for all 50 states in the US.
Feb 1, 2024 · In this gallery of five maps, we examine the creation and expansion of the United States from the colonization of North America by European powers to the routes of the explorers who pushed ever westwards to the Pacific coast.
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In 1784 Abel Buell (1742–1822), an engraver from Connecticut, produced his New and Correct Map of the United States of North America, the very first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American.
The first map of the United States drawn and printed in America by an American was, until a few years ago, hardly known at all. Only seven original copies exist, and the best preserved is...
The feudal agrarian life gave way to the dominance of the industrialized North, which now turned its well-oiled centralized organization and genius for engineering toward the West, launching across the continent wave upon wave of migration and exploration, consolidation and appropriation.
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Accompanying Buell’s landmark work in this rotating exhibition are early maps of each state—often the very first map—printed in the United States after each state achieved statehood.
