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[Collection of Travel Maps]

Description: Nine maps depicting the travels of the author to accompany his journals. The first map shows routes through parts of the Middle East and Asia with references to the Orenburgh Expedition. The second map shows routes in Northern Europe and parts of Russia, including towns in Prussia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The third map shows various portions of the Volga River in four separate, overlapping insets with nearby towns noted. The fourth map shows an area around the Eastern Ocean including … more
Date: 1762
Creator: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[WASP in Russia]

Description: Photograph of a large group of Women Airforce Service Pilots posing for the camera inside a restaurant. The restaurant has a gold, red, and white color scheme, and the table in front of the group is filled with food. The back of the photograph reads "Russian Trip 9-11."
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Photograph of Night Witches in Moscow]

Description: Photograph of a group of women standing in a group in the center of a decorated celebration room. One of whom is standing behind a microphone. A table with food is visible at the bottom right of the photo, and a man holding a video camera up to his eye. Handwritten text on the back of the photo identifies the women in the photo as "Night Witches".They are relating their history at a reception in Moscow.
Date: unknown
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

Tartaria.

Description: Map shows Asia from Russia, Persia, and the Caspian Sea to the west and China, Korea, Japan, the "Mongul. Tendvc," and the "Mare Glaciale" to the east; shows pictorial Great Wall of China. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1602
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

De la Tartarie.

Description: Map shows late eighteenth century boundaries, regions, and cities of Russian Siberia and Tartarie, Grand Tartarie, Persia, and parts of China and India. Includes text in two panels flanking left and right of map. Scale not given.
Date: [1775..1795]
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte politique de L'Europe

Description: Map shows extent of Austrian Empire, "Rme." of Prussia, Turkey, Russia, and France political boundaries during the mid-nineteenth century. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1863
Creator: Legay.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Europe en 1815.

Description: Map shows extent of the French, Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires at the end of the reign of Emperor Napoleon I. Insets: "Théâtre des deux invasions" [Theatre of the two invasions], "Théâtre des guerres de Vendée" [Theatre of war in Vendee], and "Bassin du Pô" [Po River Basin]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1850..1870]
Creator: Delamarche, Alexandre, 1815-1884
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Russian Discoveries : from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

Description: Map shows coast of Russia, the Alaskan peninsula, and portions of the Arctic Circle; routes and stops taken by explorers Captains Bering and Tschirikow and others. Includes legend and "explanation of the Russian names. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1775
Creator: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Carte des nouvelles decouvertes au nord de la Mer du Sud: tant à l'Est de la Sibérie et du Kamtchatka, qu'à l'Ouest de la Nouvelle France.

Description: Map shows routes of exploration, areas of Native American habitation, and major settlements; western New France [northwestern portion of North America] includes "Mer ou Baye de l'Ouest" possibily as an early and enormous representation of Vancouver Bay; dates and names of explorers/discoverers. Includes "Avertissement," illustrations, and title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: [1776..1784]
Creator: Santini, Francesco
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

The Russian Discoveries : from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

Description: Map shows coast of Russia, the Alaskan peninsula, and portions of the Arctic Circle; routes and stops taken by explorers Captains Bering and Tschirikow and others. Includes legend and "explanation of the Russian names. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1775
Creator: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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