London: 1844. Map. Hand colored lithograph. 19 1/2". x 21". Trail of tears map of North America showing both Quaker annual meetings and American Indian lands. Indexed with color key for "Indian nations" and yearly meetings. Repairs to lower left margin. Includes population statistics for Indian tribes. Catawba, Uchee and Natchez Indians are shown to be "extinct". The map was made for the yearly Quaker (Society of Friends) Aborigines' Committee of the Meetings of Sufferings. This was an annual meeting... More

William Faden, 1796. Map. Hand colored engraving. 23" x 31". Fine British map of the newly formed United States with beautiful hand coloring which notes Colonial holdings. This is the 6th edition of the map which describes in vivid purple, aborigines or Indians and Boundaries. 'The whole of the Countries not actually settle by Europeans should belong by right to the Aborgines...' Tannessee Government and New Settlement of Franklin noted as well as the Federal City of Washington. Centerfold creased... More

US Army, 1879. Map. Lithograph. 32 1/2" x 44". This composite map of the West. Beautifully colored with impressive detail throughout. The map locates more than 130 forts, marked with flag notations, nearly 70 Indian reservations, the routes of many explorers, railroads with their land grants, and dozens of Spanish land grants noted. The map provides in fine detail a composite report showing the areas surveyed under the direction of George Wheeler in the south, Clarence King in the north... More