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Atlases 1871-1884
- This collection features the Maine county atlases published in the late 19th century. These atlases feature information about the county as a whole, and include detailed maps for individual towns and cities.
History - Culture - Heritage
- Maine Celebrates American Archives Month October 2015. Maine State Archives 50 Years.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Archives Month Posters
Finding Aids and Reference Material
- This collection includes Archives-created posters and publications as well as unpublished guides that provide explanations of some of the diverse materials held at the Archives. It features a list of Maine men who perished at the infamous Andersonville prison during the Civil War, a history of the wild lands of Maine (which served as a revenue source for the State) and a report on claims regarding island ownership from 1913. Additionally, there is a guide to the Indian Affairs Collection, which was compiled as part of a federally-funded project by the Civil Works Administration in 1934. Although this guide is incomplete, it organizes Wabanaki-related materials found within the Maine Executive Council collection.
Archives Month Posters
- Posters created by MSA Imaging Department using material from the collections.
BMC 15--Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Pennsylvaniae et Partis Virginiae Tabula multis in locis emendata . . .; circa 1684
- Second state of Danckerts’ map of New Netherlands, including a view of New Amsterdam, now also called "Nieuw Yorck." Includes inset view of the Dutch colony on Manhattan Island. The cartographic information is based upon Jansson's map of 1650. This map was issued about 1684 and shows Philadelphia for the first time, as well as adding farm animals. It also shows the Battery and Dutch buildings on the waterfront. The Delaware River is completely revised so that it no longer connects with the Hudson River. Pennsylvania is named; its boundary is marked. The addition of domesticated farm animals in the New Netherlands colony is of historical note. The Dutch colonists were, by the 1680s, increasingly disillusioned with the support they were receiving from Holland. A delegation was sent to Den Haag to appeal for more support, money, settlers, etc. One of the by-products of the colonist's meeting / plea was the revision of this map as a propaganda tool, displaying farm animals in New England in order to entice prospective new colonists to emigrate, on the theory that life in the New World was similar to life in Holland.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 24--America Septentrionalis a Domini d'Anville in Galliis edita nunc in Anglia. Coloniis in interiorem Virginiam deductis nec non Fluvii Ohio aucta cursu notisque geographicis et historicis illustrata. [circa 1756].
- This map depicts the British and French colonies at the onset of the French and Indian War. The War began in 1754, but it was not until 1756 that England declared war against France. The latest information from western Virginia (i.e., the Ohio Valley) has been included. The French forts in Ohio, which were defended from Braddock and Washington in 1754, are marked. Walker's Settlement of 1750 is also noted. The colonial boundaries are shown extending out beyond the Mississippi, with New England's claims reaching into Manitoba.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps
BMC 28--L'Amerique Septentrionale. Dressee sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, & quelques autres, & sur les Memoires les plus recens. Par G. de l'Isle, Geographe. A Paris, chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge, avec Privilege du Roy pour 20. ans, 1700.
- Engraved of North and Central America outlined in color. Shows routes of Cortez, Gaetan, Drake, Medana and Olivier in the Pacific. Extends east to the Azores. Title cartouche is by "N. Guerard, inv. et fec."
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Baxter Rare Maps