Map; Ottens, J. (Joshua); Suriname; ca. 1700

Title:

Map; Ottens, J. (Joshua); Suriname; ca. 1700

Date:

ca. 1700

Description:

Map of Suriname, Oldest known map of Suriname, by J Ottens, founded in 1627 by Abraham van Pere, possibly a member of a Portuguese Jewish refugee family, based on Mogge's map of 1671 marking the "joods Dorp en Sinagoge" (Jew's town and synagogue) and many Jewish plantation owners; Suriname

Format:

Map

Identifier:

2006.12.26.00529; {58A792AE-64BF-4788-B270-5B21CD1295EB}

Language:

Dutch

Subject:

Maps (documents)

Type:

Maps

Personal Name:

Ottens, J. (Joshua)

Geographic Subject:

Suriname

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Call Number:

Arc.MS.56

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)