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Title: Lac Supérieur & autres lieux ou sont les missions des péres de la compagnie de Iesus comprises sous le nom d'Ovtaovacs.
Identifier(s): graphics:5743; APSdigobj3466
Description: Annotated: "Facsimile d'une carte attachée à un des volumes des lettres edifiantes pour le Canada dont les Jesuites publierent plus de 40 volumes de 1611 à 1678." (Relations des Jesuites en la Nouvelle France. Paris: Cramoisy: 1632-1673.) A note reads: "rough fac smilie-this and the Scutcheon above are Well drawned and Engraven."
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscript Maps (Mss.Misc.Maps);
Subject: Maps; Lake Superior; Anishinaabe; Ottawa Indians
Date: 1831

Title: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware
Identifier(s): graphics:10831; Realms of Gold identifier: 902, 649: [ca. 1768]: Sm57madL Large
Description: Full title: Plan of the boundary lines between the provinces of Maryland and the three lower counties of Delaware, with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. [The line was run by Mason and Dixon. London: ca. 1768].; Mease presented several "rare and interesting maps, of early date, of the division lines between Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, accompanied by some explanatory notes." The gifts were listed as: 1. A plan of the Boundary line between the Province of Maryland, and the three lower Counties on Delaware, with facts (?) of the paralel [sic] of Latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. 2. A plan of the famous "West Line," or paralel [sic] of latitude, which is the boundary between the Provinces of Maryland and Pennsa. which was run by Mason and Dixon in 1762 & 8. 3. A map of that part of America, where a degree of latitude was measured for the Royal Society by Mason and Dixon in 1768 [Archives. J. Mease to APS, 19 May 1826; Minutes; Donation Book; Transactions, n.s., vol. 3]. Wheat: 497 See: Thomas D. Cope, "Degrees along the west line . . ." APS Proceedings, 1949. Provenance: Presented and autographed by James Mease, 19 May 1826, another copy presented by Chew Family Trust, 15 November 1982.
Subject: Maps.; Maryland.; Pennsylvania.; Mason-Dixon Line.; Delaware.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1768

Title: Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC.
Identifier(s): graphics:5834; local: APSdigobj3541
Description: Contains autograph of Washington. Wheat: 531 Provenance: Presented by George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 22 April 1793; subsequently by Buchan to the American Philosophical Society, 17 July 1793. Realms of Gold identifier: 1078, 653: 1792: T328pcw Large
Creator: Thackara, James, 1767-1848et al
Subject: Maps; District of Columbia; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: 1792

Title: Map of the United States, exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connections and distances of the post-offices stage roads, counties & principal rivers, 1804.
Identifier(s): graphics:10283
Description: Realms of Gold identifier: 559, 635: 1804: B721usb Large This map was first published in 1796. See Realms of Gold Map No. 555.
Subject: Bradley, Abraham, 1767-1838; Maps; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Postal service
Date: 1804

Title: A chart of Delaware Bay and River, containing a full and exact description of the shores, creeks, harbours, soundings, shoals, sands and bearings of the most considerable land marks ,&c. &c.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3527; APSdigobj3527
Description: Original in North American pilot. . . London: Laurie and Whittle: 1800. No. 10.
Creator: Fisher, Joshua, 1707-1783
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Delaware Bay; Delaware; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1794 May 12]

Title: Carte des États-Unis de l'Amérique suivant le traité de paix de 1783.
Identifier(s): graphics:5799; local: APSdigobj3512
Description: Inset: Supplément à la Floride.On the right and left sides of the map are: Principaux événemens militaires entre les Américains et les Anglois.The Society also owns a reproduction of this map taken from the copy in the Newberry Library. Realms of Gold identifier: 551; Full title: Carte des États-Unis de l'Amérique suivant le traité de paix de 1783. Dédiée et présentée à, S. Excellence Mr. Benjamin Franklin ministre plenipotentiare des États-Unis de l'Amérique près la Cour de France, anc. présid. de la conventiõ de Pensilvanie et de la société philosophique de Philadelphia, &c. &c. Par son très humble et très obeissant serviteur Lattré.
Creator: Lattré, Jeanet al
Subject: Maps; North America; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1784

Title: A plan of the several villages in the Illinois country, with part of the River Mississippi &c.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3544; APSdigobj3544
Description: See: A topographical description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, by Thos. Hutchins. London: J. Almon: 1778.
Creator: Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Mississippi River; Illinois; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1778]

Title: Remarques sur la navigation de Terre-Neuve à New-York afin d'éviter les Courrants et les bas-fonds au sud de Nantuckett et du Banc de George.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3552; APSdigobj3552
Description: See: Franklin Bache, "Where is Franklin's first chart of the Gulf Stream?" American Philosophical Society, Proceedings, vol. 76, p. 731, 1936; and Benjamin Franklin, "A letter from Dr. Benjamin Franklin to Mr. Alphonsus Le Roy . . . August 1785," American Philosophical Society, Transactions, vol. 2. Philadelphia: 1786.
Creator: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Gulf Stream; Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [ca. 1785]

Title: The Strait of Magalhaens, commonly called Magellan.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3548; APSdigobj3548
Description: Removed from Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle. . . London: 1839.
Creator: King, Phillip Parker, 1793-1856 Stokes, Pringle Fitzroy, Robert, 1805-1865
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Strait of Magellan (Chile and Argentina); Chile--Maps--Early works to 1800; HMS Beagle
Date: 1839

Title: State of Massachusetts. Compiled from the best authorities, [1795]
Identifier(s): graphics:10280
Description: The American Philosophical Society Transactions (vol. 6) state that Carey presented the "Materials from which Guthrie's Geography were compiled." This is one of those maps. See: William Guthrie, The general atlas for Carey's edition of his geography improved. (Philadelphia: Carey: 1795). Wheat: 213. See: M. Carey, Carey's American atlas. Philadelphia: Carey, 1796, no. 5. Provenance: Presented by Mathew Carey, 18 October 1805.
Subject: American Philosophical Society; Massachusetts; Maps.; Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: 1795

Title: A map of the middle British colonies in North America.
Identifier(s): graphics:5819; local: APSdigobj3525
Description: Inset: A sketch of the remaining part of Ohio R. &c.
Creator: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756et al
Subject: Maps; Middle Atlantic States; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800; Colonies
Date: [1776 March 25]

Title: Lower Hudson River and Long Island
Identifier(s): graphics:5720; local: APSdigobj3449
Description: Includes marginalia notes on Long Island 17th century history. Includes Indigenous place names, primarily Algonquian names on Long Island.
Creator: Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862et al
Subject: Maps; New York (State)--Maps; Long Island (New York State); Names, Geographical
Date: n. d.

Title: A map of the country between Albermarle Sound and Lake Erie, comprehending the whole of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania, with parts of several other of the United States of America.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3526; APSdigobj3526
Description: The Society asked Thomas Jefferson in 1805 for a copy of his Notes on Virginia. Jefferson wrote 2 May 1805 and presented "a single copy remaining of the original edition printed at Paris, the only one almost perfectly correct, & was never sold, a few copies only having been printed and given to my friends" (Archives).In: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia.
Creator: Fry Jefferson Scull Hutchins
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Virginia; Maryland; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [1786]

Title: A new map of part of North America from the latitude of 40 to 68 degrees.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3566; APSdigobj3566
Creator: La France, Joseph, b. ca. 1707
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; La France, Joseph, b. ca. 1707; North America--Maps--Early works to 1800; Hudson Bay--Maps--Early works to 1800
Date: [ca. 1742?]

Title: A Plan of Philadelphia (by M. Dury)
Identifier(s): graphics:10288
Description: Miller Map 9.
Subject: Maps; Philadelphia; Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800; Drury, Andrew; Easburn, Benjamin; Middle Atlantic States -- Maps. -- Early works to 1800
Date: 1776

Title: [Middle Atlantic states, showing rivers and mountains and location of sea shells on the tops of the mountains].
Identifier(s): graphics:5727; local: APSdigobj3452
Description: As early as 1741, John Bartram sent some fossil sea shells to Sir Hans Sloan; other shells were sent to his London friend Peter Collinson in 1742. He wrote to Collinson in 1743 or 1744 that he had observed such fossils everywhere, "even on the top of the mountain that separates the waters of Susquehanna and St. Lawrence." (William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall [Philadelphia: 1849], p. 169.) Bartram was used to making rough maps of his travels and he made no pretense of being a competent surveyor. He apologized to Collinson for a map which he said was "Clumsily done, —having neither proper instruments nor convenient time," since he was drawing by the early light of dawn or by candlelight. Franklin wrote his friend Jared Eliot on 16 July 1747 of Bartram's discoveries: The great Apalachian Mountains, which run from York [Hudson] River back of these Colonies to the Bay of Mexico, show in many Places near the highest Parts of them, Strata Sea Shells, in some Places the marks of them are in the solid Rocks. 'Tis certainly the Wreck of a World we live on! We have Specimens of those Sea shell Rocks broken off near the Tops of those Mountains, brought and deposited in our Library [the Library Company of Philadelphia] as Curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I'll send you a Piece. (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [New Haven: Yale University Press: 1961], vol. 3, p. 169.) The endorsement on the back reads, in Franklin's hand: "Mr. Bartram's Map very curious." 650: [ca.1750s]: At61mvc
Creator: Bartram, John, 1699-1777et al
Subject: Maps; Sea shells; Mountains; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Bartram, John, 1699-1777; Middle Atlantic States--Maps.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Date: [1750s]

Title: Map (2) showing territory of the Coeur d’Alene, and parts of territories of surrounding tribes.
Identifier(s): graphics:6296
Description: Hand-colored and annotated map of Idaho, depicting the territories of numerous tribes.; Base map: "Rand, McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Idaho...." 1909.
Subject: maps; Idaho--Maps; Montana--Maps; Coeur d'Alene Indians; Kalispel Indians; Kootenai Indians; Nez Percé Indians; Paloos Indians; Salish Indians; Senijextee Indians; Shoshoni Indians; Spokane Indians

Title: Section of the lake, river and canal navigation from Lake Superior to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence.
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3469; APSdigobj3469
Description: With this is a water color painting of "Sketch from the Mountain of Montreal shewing part of the plain extending south east & southwards to the Green Mountain Range in eastern townships of Canada and Vermont & the Adirondack Mountain regions of New York. To illustrate Mr. Blackwell's paper on the basin of the St. Lawrence."
Creator: Blackwell, T. E.
Source: APS.Printed.Maps;
Subject: Maps; Canada; Lake Superior; Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Date: ca. 1869

Title: The State of Massachusetts. Compiled from the best Authorities by Samuel Lewis, 1795
Identifier(s): graphics:10292
Description: 1 of 45 maps in folio.
Subject: Guthrie, W. K. C. (William Keith Chambers), 1906-; Maps; Massachusetts
Date: 1795

Title: [Susquehanna, Schuylkill and little Schuylkill rivers, in Pennsylvania].
Identifier(s): APSdigobj3467; APSdigobj3467
Description: Annotated: "A copy of a Christian Brobst traycing [and] Cattawissa," and, "W[illia]m J. Duane has the original."
Creator: Brobst, Christian
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscript Maps (Mss.Misc.Maps);
Subject: Maps; Pennsylvania; Susquehanna River; Schuylkill River; Little Schuylkill River
Date: ca. 1835