Category: Maps

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Map Overlay, 1942

On: By: Romeyn

Overlay map of the European Theater over North America to show relative distances. Solid Black line between Murmansk and Rostov is the Eastern Front between Germany and the USSR[United States]. Army Orientation Course. Newsmap. Monday, May 25, 1942 : week of May 15 to May 22, poster, May 25, 1942; [Washington, D.C.]., University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

Burma, February 7, 1944

On: By: Romeyn

[United States.] Army Service Forces. Morale Services Division. Army Information Branch. Newsmap. Monday, February 7, 1944 : week of January 27 to February 3, 230th week of the war, 112th week of U.S. participation, poster, February 7, 1944; [Washington, D.C.]. University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

Lost City of Etzanoa

On: By: Romeyn

In the early summer of 1601, Juan de Oñate, a conquistador who helped establish the Spanish colony of New Mexico, set out with 200 soldiers, several cannons, a dozen priests and others, on a search to find Quivira, a fabled city of gold. What he found though was the “most monstrous cattle” (bison), wide open prairie with “grasses so high that in many places they hid a horse” and a settlement on the Arkansas River of more than a thousand large, thatched-roof buildings, scattered among fields of corn, squash, and beans.

This map was drawn in 1602 by a Wichita Indian who was captured by the Spanish, the Lost City is located near present day Arkansas City in southern Kansas.