Description: Map showing territorial growth of the United States from 1783 (not including Alaska and outside posessions). — The New Encyclopedic Atlas and Gazetteer of the World, 1914 Source: , The New Encyclopedic Atlas and Gazetteer of the World (New York, New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1914) 105 Map Credit: The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman