Bellin, Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France (Homann Heirs, 1755). Label: 'I. du Castor'. Gallica copy: ark btv1b8493436g.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A hand-colored engraved map fills the frame, showing interconnected waterways, coastlines, rivers, boundaries, and many small place labels. A large decorative floral cartouche occupies the upper center, with a graduated border surrounding the map.
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Geographicus scan via Wikimedia Commons
4,000 × 3,215 px · JPEG · 3.5 MB
Subjects and keywords
Text in the image
Transcribed from the object itself.
PARTIE OCCIDENTALE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE OU DU CANADA I. du Castor
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogued as a Bellin–Homann map dated 1755, titled “Partie Occidentale de la Nouvelle France”; the record attributes the scan to Geographicus via Wikimedia Commons and notes a Gallica copy.
Could not make out
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Small place names and annotations around the map are not fully legible at this resolution.
Rights and credit
Public domain (Geographicus scan via Commons)
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Provenance
- Held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Collection
- Historical maps — Wikimedia Commons scans
- Named on the record
- Geographicus scan via Wikimedia Commons
- Date
- 1755
- Original
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/1755_Bellin_Map_of_the_Great_Lakes_-_Geographicus_-_GreatLakes-bellin-1755.jpg
- Copy taken
- 2026-07-31
- Title from
- an article in this archive
The file
| Rendition | Format | Extent | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master | JPEG | 4,000 × 3,215 px | 3.5 MB | 1097ac6066e1… |
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- Written aboutBellin–Homann Great Lakes map, 1755
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Geographicus scan via Wikimedia Commons. “Bellin–Homann Great Lakes map, 1755”. 1755. Wikimedia Commons. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/map/bellin-1755-partie-occidentale/. copy retrieved 2026-07-31.
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