National Museum of American History
The Naming of America
October 26, 1983 – February 17, 1986
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View a 1507 World map thought to be by Martin Waldseemuller, a German mapmaker, probably the first map to designate the New World continents as America, and supplemented by related materials.
On loan from a private German collector.