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Water Storage Commission Maps and Plans
- The Water Storage commission was created in 1909 by P.L. 212 and was charged with collecting information relating to the water power of the State, the flow of rivers, and their drainage areas. It was also empowered to improve the natural storage areas of the State and create new storage. The Governor was the chair of the Commission, which included the Land Agent and three other appointed members. The Commission was abolished and the records and functions were absorbed by the newly established Public Utilities Commission in 1913 by P.L 130. In 1919 the Water Power Commission was established and the functions transferred to that body, before being returned again to the Water Resources Division of the Public Utilities Commission. These maps and plans show water power facilities and water storage areas along many of Maine's rivers. They primarily range in date from 1909-1913 and 1919-1925.
BMC 45--Le Nouveau Continent Figure dans la Mappemonde de Juan de la Cosa en 1500.
- This 1834 atlas was issued as part of Humboldt and Bonpland’s Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 (Paris, 1808-1834), which was published in over thirty volumes over several decades. Included in the atlas is this first printing of a manuscript map made by Spanish conquistador, cartographer, and explorer Juan de la Cosa (ca. 1460-1509), who sailed with the first three voyages of Columbus and was the owner of the Santa María. This chart (XXXIII) incorporates lands discovered in America up to 1500 during expeditions by Spanish, Portuguese, and English expeditions to America. Juan de la Cosa’s mappa mundi is believed to be the earliest extant map showing any part of the continent of North America.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 48--A Plan of the Compact Part of the Town of Exeter at the Head of the Southerly Branch of Piscataqua River, 1802
- Map of Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire drawn by Phinehas Merrill. Oriented with north to the right. Buildings (some labeled) shown pictorially.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 06--Part of North America containing Canada, the North parts of New England and New York; with Nova Scotia and New found Land; 1759
- Part of North America; containing Canada, the North Parts of New England and New York; with Nova Scotia and Newfound Land. John Barrow, mapmaker, 1759. (9” x 12”) Map of New England, part of Canada and Newfoundland, with a large inset of the Great Lakes, and detail in the Great Lakes and the Upper Mississippi regions.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 09--America Septentrionalis [1641]
- This map of North America shows California as an island. It is richly embellished with a variety of animals throughout the interior, with sailing ships and sea monsters in the oceans. The map is a careful compilation from various sources and represents the current state of cartographic knowledge at that time. There is a single "Lac des Iroguois" in the Great Lakes region. A few place names from John Smith's 1616 map appear in "Nova Anglia." The title cartouche features several Native Americans, and the imprint cartouche features two mermaids. Depicts North America, Central America, and northern part of South America.
BMC 79--An authentic plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery, to the fall of Montmorenci [...], 1759
- There are 2 maps pasted to one backing. Map 1--Full Title: "An authentic plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery, to the fall of Montmorenci: with the operations of the siege of Quebec under the command of Vice-Admiral Saunders & Major General Wolfe down to the 5 Sept 1759, drawn by a captain in His Majesties Navy." Published by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, near Charing Cross, London. Map 2-- Plan of the Town of Halifax in Nova Scotia. Map circa 1759, shows British barracks and the Sandwich River.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps