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- Map Image Is Cartier: Historian
Insisting the picture has been ignored for centuries in favour of "romantic fantasy images" showing a falsely heroic and handsome [Jacques Cartier], [Alastair Sweeny] said the emergence of digital technology is finally allowing greater access to the 1547 map and enlarged, high-resolution reproductions of its "true Cartier. I have no doubt this is a portrait of Cartier the navigator," said Sweeny, an author, historical researcher and publisher of online history resources for teachers. "He is shown as a rough-bearded cloaked figure surrounded by a party of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen, soldiers and a priest -- the colonists he was charged with taking to the new world. He is clearly the leader of the expedition, and appears to be giving them instructions." The map and its picture of...

... the map, which is held by the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif., is beyond doubt. Created wi...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- August 21, 2009
- Facing north: Jack London's imagined Indians on the Klondike frontier.
...: The Genesis of an American Writer (San Marino, CA: Henry E. Huntington Library, 1966) covers Lon...
- Northern Review
- Nbr. 1998, June 1998
- Dead Sea Scrolls anything but dry: parchments have stirred as much politics as scholarship in battle for their control.
... became moot in 1991 when the Huntington Library in San Marino, near Los Angeles, announced that it...
- Anglican Journal
- Vol. 122 Nbr. 5, May 1996