Credits & References
Copyright and permissions:
Maps:
World map, detail: North & South America, Girolamo de
Verrazano, 1529, Online Guide to Early Map Images of the Caribbean,
Library for Caribbean Research
Research Institute for the Study of Man,
http://www.rism.org/lcr/at_the_LCR/
Map of North America. Diego Gutiérrez, compiler (active 1554-1570) Hieronymous Cock, engraver (1510-ca.1570). American Treasures of the Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm042.html
Samuel de Champlain's 1607 Map, American Treasures of the Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html
Portraits:

Sebastiano del Piombo portrait of Columbus. Public
domain. http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

Portrait of Verrazano taken from a 1964 commemorative stamp. Public domain.
http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/2/hs213a.htm

Imaginary Portrait of
Jacques Cartier, by Théophile Hamel, ca. 1844. Public Domain.
http://www.archives.ca/05/0509/050951/05095135_e.html

Samuel de
Champlain by Théophile Hamel (1870). Public
Domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain

Young Henry Hudson © Public Domain Credit: National
Archives of Canada/C-017727 Source: National Archives of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/explorers/h24-1440-e.html