Ampler, J.M.W.. Galveston Entrance. U.S. Coast Survey, 1856. Landscape & City Heinrich Kiepert

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Heinrich Kiepert

Geographer to the King

Colonial administrators needed to know who owned what in order to plan settlements and collect property taxes

The first known maps to show California as an island were on the title pages of Antonio de Herrera’s Descripción de las Indias Occidentales (1622) and Jacob le Maire's Spieghel Der Australische Navigatie (1622)

The American engraving provides a literal translation of this legend and of the title

Ampler, J.M.W.. Galveston Entrance. U.S. Coast Survey, 1856. Landscape & City Heinrich KiepertAmpler, J. M. W. Galveston Entrance U. S. Coast Survey, 1856 16 1 2 x 20 inches

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