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Title: Americae Descrip.
Date: 1655
Description: Map is reprinted in Marquette's 1655 work. Originally appeared in Mercator, Gerardus Atlas minor ... Amsterodami : ludoci Hondij., c1607 p. 19 (OCoLC)65955731

Title: Nouvelle carte particulière de l'Amérique
Date: 1741
Description: Popple was an associate of astronomer and mathematician, Edmund Halley, and the advertisement in the inset cartouche for this map stresses that friendship in an endorsement for the map’s accuracy, depicting fields, forts, towns, rivers, bogs, forests, all from St. Louis’s future area, well mapped, showing the Missouri River in detailed positioning, also the Meramec River, Cahokia and Kaskaskia to the projected source of the Mississippi, making the most detailed English attempt to map the reaches of the upper Mississippi to its time.

Title: George Caleb Bingham, Portrait of Martha Washington
Date: 1856
Description: George Caleb Bingham painted this copy after Gilbert Stuart's portrait of First Lady Martha Washington, leaving it unfinished as Stuart had done; 30 inches high x 24 inches wide, gift of the artist.

Title: George Caleb Bingham, Portrait of George Washington
Date: 1856
Description: George Caleb Bingham painted this copy after Gilbert Stuart's portrait of President George Washington, leaving it unfinished as Stuart had done; 30 inches high x 24 inches wide, gift of the artist.

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