Colonization Map, Northwest Algeria, 1883 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Département d'Oran : colonisation, par A.D. Langlois ; dressée sous le patronage de la Société de Géographie d'Oran. It was published by Challamel et Cie. in 1883. Scale [ca. 1:800,000]. Covers northwest Algeria. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads and stations, canals, ruins, mines, territorial claims, shoreline features, forests, ground cover, and more. Includes also statistical tables on population and agriculture.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

D. Certification to study French, 1796 September 5

This subseries contains one brief handwritten certification that Loammi Baldwin's son may study the French language as part of his college studies.

D. Certification to study French, 1796 September 5

This subseries contains one brief handwritten certification that Loammi Baldwin's son may study the French language as part of his college studies.

Un receuil: containing painting, penmanship, algebra and pieces selected from various authors in prose and verse, with a few pieces in French with their translation / by Phebe Folger of Nantucket : manuscript, 1797-1806

Written mostly in a copperplate hand in black ink, and illustrated with watercolor drawings.

Essay on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars,

This is a contemporary draft composition reviewing the course of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Tudor offers opinions on England’s diplomatic options after the renewal of hostilities and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger: "His task is momentous and all Europe are watching his movements with anxiety." The document is signed "Marcus Valinus."

An account of the capture of St. Johns by the French : manuscript, 1709 May 14

Manuscript narrative, signed by John Campion and Joseph Knills; dated at Carbonnear Is., Newfoundland, 14 May 1709.

Memoire sur la colonie de Quebec, Plaisance, Gaspé et Capbreton : manuscript, 1663

Concerns conditions in New France and the need for French troops.