A nice example of the second edition of Evans' map, corrected and extended by Pownall.
Along with Mitchell's map issued in the same year, the Evans is considered the most important American map of the 18th Century. Both maps were intended to spur…
This may be the first map of Pennsylvania published in America. Evans followed this map with his more famous one of 1755, but this is an iconic map of the middle Atlantic and much copied, with English, German, and other editions. The county of…
This may be the first map of Pennsylvania published in America. Evans followed this map with his more famous one of 1755, but this is an iconic map of the middle Atlantic and much copied, with English, German, and other editions. The county of…
portrait of a single sister, cap with red ribbon, dark (green?) ribbon on sleeve, showing right hand holding piece of paper: 'Sein Blut Er vergoßen für mich, Würmelein' (HG 522:3). gold frame
Anna Nitschmann (1715-1760), called 'Caritas', was…
portrait of woman, cap with white ribbon, dress laced up with white lace, showing right hand leaning on chair. gold frame
Catharina Huber, m.n. Pudmensky (1703-1798), born in Seidendorf, Moravia, joined her 1st husband, Friedrich Riedel, in…