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  • Collection: Compasses and Cartouches

Collage of map images created for this exhibit: Compasses, Cartouches, and Creatures

Section of map of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, C.A. Spratt and J.B. Spratt, 1911

Coat of arms, detail from Theodor de Bry, Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia map, Frankfurt: 1590

Cartouche, detail from Theodor de Bry, Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia map, Frankfurt: 1590

Scale bar, detail from Theodor de Bry, Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia map, Frankfurt: 1590

Compass rose, detail from Theodor de Bry, Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia map, Frankfurt: 1590

Native American figures, detail from Willem Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, <br /><br /> Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova description map, Amsterdam: [J. and C. Blaeu], 1640

Asian figure, detail from Willem Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova description map, Amsterdam: [J. and C. Blaeu], 1640

Theodor de Bry, Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia map, Frankfurt: 1590

Willem Blaeu and Joan Blaeu, Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova description, Amsterdam: [J. and C. Blaeu], 1640

Pieter van der Aa, Partie meridionale de la Virginie et la partie orientale de la Floride, Leiden : P. van der Aa, 1729

Officer and Laughing Girl, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1657, from <br /><br /> Wikipedia

Mark Catesby, A Map of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands with the Adjacent Parts, 1743

John White, Virginea Pars: Map of the East Coast of North America from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Lookout, 1585

Pinebluff. N.C. Southern Pines., map, Richmond, Virginia: A. Hoen &amp; Co., ca. 1900

Albert Ruger, Bird’s Eye View of the City of Greensboro, North Carolina, 1891, Madison, Wisconsin: Ruger &amp; Stoner, 1891

Camille N. Drie, Bird’s Eye View of the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1872, C. Drie, 1872

Google Map, Chapel Hill vicinity, captured July 18, 2023

Charles B. Colton and G. Woolworth Colton, North Carolina map, New York: G.W. &amp; C.B. Colton &amp; Co., 1869

Herman Moll, geographer, and John Oldmixon, historian, Carolina map, London: John Nicholson, ca. 1708

Map of the Several Nations of Natives to the Northwest of South Carolina, ca. 1721

Sebastian Münster, Tavola dell&#039;isole nuove, le quali son nominate occidentali, &amp; indiane per diversi respetti, 1540

William L. Spoon, Hand-Drawn Map of Chapel Hill Township, ca. 1890s

Jeremy Francis Gilmer, Reconnaisance of the Country between Newbern &amp; Goldsboro&#039; between the Trent and the Neuse Rivers, ca. 1862

W.G. Lewis, The Only Correct and Reliable Map of the Battle of Bethel!, Tarboro&#039;, N.C.: Wm. B. Smith, [1861]
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