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MapPlan de la Nouvelle Orleans. Relief shown pictorially. Cadastral map. Shows block numbers and location of existing buildings. Pen-and-ink. Mounted on cloth backing. Oriented with northwest at top. Copy annotated in pencil at bottom: 142566. Accompanied by: A list of residents keyed by letter and number in pocket. Xerox, 36 leaves. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of points of...
- Date: 1722-01-01
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MapMap of Louisiana, View of New Orleans.
Carte de la Louisiane, vue de la Nouvelle-Orléans The French royal engineer, de Beauvilliers, drew this 1720 map of the entire hydrographic network of the Mississippi River, from the Illinois Country to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, and the regions west of the Mississippi, stretching through present-day Texas and into New Mexico. The map was made in Paris, based on the journal of Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (1683--1765), "commander...- Contributor: Bénard De La Harpe, Jean-Baptiste - Beauvilliers, De, 1730
- Date: 1720-01-01
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MapMap of the City of New Orleans as it was on May 30, 1725.
Plan de la ville de la Nouvelle Orléans en l'état quelle étoit le 30 may 1725 New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and named in honor of the regent of France, Philippe d'Orléans (1674--1723), who awarded the monopoly to exploit the adjacent colony to John Law and the Compagnie d'Occident (Company of the West). Located on the Mississippi River, near where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico, the town became the capital of...- Date: 1725-01-01
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