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London; This is one of the first English maps of America that relied heavily on English resources, rather than Dutch. At this time, the English had possession of the New England area, which had been governed previously by the Dutch for twenty years.…

Oxford; Appearing in Edward Wells' A New Set of Maps, published in Oxford in 1700, this map was included in many editions until 1738. Little information is presented south of New York, but there are five insets: Carolina, New Scotland, I. of Jamaica,…

London; Showing the area from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, this small map also shows roads, towns, waterways, some residents, and relief. It includes "the 2 farthest Settlements in Virginia in 1755." The map was published in London Magazine, vol.…

Class of 1939

Charleston, WV. Class of 1904.

8 x 5 cm
Color
Typed on Back: “Administration Building: A line of students registering... This is where it all begins!!

Class of 1889. Previous data states he was born in 1869 and died in 1934.

Class of 1884 [Unknown], head of the Department of Law, University of Mississippi , 1865-1937.

Young men forty years ago. Left to right: R. A. Gilliam, Bruce Buford, W. Williams, F. M. Eversple, T. Catisby Jones, Tom Gilliam, Ray A. Moore, Harry B. Stone, J. Thomas Goode, Tom Hooper, Bob Preston. Picture taken Alumnus Day, June 3, 1940

Rome, ca. 1775; This small map of the Western Hemisphere is probably from the Italian edition of the atlas Geografia Universale, engraved by P. Buffier and published in Rome by G. Petroschi in 1775. Claude Buffier was a Jesuit theologian whose small…

Frankfort, 1590; Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) used the watercolor map drawn by John White in 1585 as the basis for his engraved map of Virginia. Although primarily a map of what became the North Carolina coast, the map is the earliest published…

Snapped as they came out from the Alumni day luncheon.