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Map[Atlas accompanying An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi and through the western parts of Louisiana to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun rivers] "Some copies [of An account] are accompanied by the six maps bound separately." Cf. Sabin 62836. List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 11024 Copy 1 incomplete: missing all maps, but contains statistical sheets. Copy 2 incomplete: missing Map of Internal Provinces of New Spain. Copy 3 incomplete: missing Map of the Mississippi River. Copy 3 includes "A map of Lewis and...
- Contributor: Pike, Zebulon Montgomery - Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble)
- Date: 1810-01-01
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MapAtchafalaya outlet, Mississippi River and tributaries Shows levees, earthfills, drainage structures, etc. for floodways. Panel title. Alternate title: Atchafalaya outlet, La. Includes text, location map, and ill. Map "Distribution of major floods on Lower Mississippi River," text, and ill. on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. New Orleans District - United States. Mississippi River Commission
- Date: 1981-01-01
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MapReconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Philip : made previous to the reduction by the U.S. Fleet, under the command of flag officer D.G. Farragut, U.S.N. At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey. Prof. A. D. Bache, Supt. Stamped in lower right corner: From collection of David Dixon Porter. Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, covering the environs of forts St. Philip and Jackson, Louisiana. "Note: The forts and their immediate vicinity were taken from data furnished by Major Barnard, U.S.E., excepting the trigonometrical determinations of the forts...
- Contributor: Bowen & Co - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
- Date: 1862-01-01
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MapPlan of Fort Jackson, showing the effect of the bombardment by the U.S. mortar flotilla and gunboats, April 18th to 24th 1862 : flag officer D.G. Farragut commanding fleet, Com. D.D. Porter ... Annotated in pencil on verso: Plan of Fort Jackson. [1862?]. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 237 Includes explanatory note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy 3 imperfect: Torn at upper edge.
- Contributor: United States Coast Survey - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - Harris, J. S. - Hergesheimer, E. (Edwin) - Bowen & Co - Gerdes, F. H. - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas)
- Date: 1862-01-01
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MapReconnoissance of the Mississippi River below Forts Jackson and St. Philip : made previous to the reduction by the U.S. Fleet, under the command of flag officer D.G. Farragut, U.S.N. Includes note describing positions of Union "mortar flotilla" on April 18-21, 1862. Annotated in pencil on verso: Forts of Jackson/St. Philip, [1863?]. Oriented with north toward the upper left. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 236 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: Bowen & Co - Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States Coast Survey - Gerdes, F. H.
- Date: 1862-01-01
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MapGrondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de hoofdstad van Louisiana. De uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi. De oostelyke ingang van de Missisippi, met een plan van het fort, 't welk het kanaal beheerscht. Scales vary. From the author's Hedendaagsche historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Amerika. 1769. v. 3. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1678 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: [Salmon, Thomas]
- Date: 1769-01-01
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MapNew Orleans to Vicksburg Covers area of Louisiana and Mississippi adjacent to Mississippi River from approximately 15 miles north of Vicksburg to 20 miles west of New Orleans. At head of title: Map no. 2. "Photographed by Brown & Ogilvie." "Authorities: Township surveys, La Tourett's [sic] ...." Civil War salted paper maps. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 229.5 LC copy annotated in pencil and ink. Available also...
- Contributor: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss - Brown & Ogilvie - United States. Army. Department of the Gulf - Elliot, Charles Darwin - Abbot, Henry L.
- Date: 1863-01-01
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MapSuite du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis la rivière d'Iberville jusq'à celle des Yasous, et les parties connues de la Rivière Rouge et la Rivière Noire. Scale ca. 1:830,000. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. "Tome I, no. 46." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Includes "Remarques sur la Rivière Rouge" and inset "Carte de l'establissement françois sur la Rivière Rouge." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 779 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
- Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
- Date: 1764-01-01
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MapPlan of the mouth of the Mississipi to explain the direction of the thelegraphies lines from Balize to Plaquemines & for other puposes : No. 4, report of the 1st June 1813 Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 462" and hand-written title of "No. 4 Missipi from Balise to Plaquemines telegraphik line" on verso. Minimal level cataloging record. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
- Contributor: United States. War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers - Lafon, Barthélémy
- Date: 1813-01-01
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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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MapMap of the Two Natchez Forts Captured in February 1730 by the French, Choctaw, Tunica, Acolapissa, and Houma.
Plans des Deux Forts des Natchez Assiegez au mois de fevrier 1730 Par les Français Tchactas Tonicas Colapissas et Oumas. La présente carte levée sur les lieux à l'Estime faite et dessinée a la N.lle Orleans Le six avril mil sept cent trente This plan shows the site of the two forts captured by the French in February 1730 as part of their response to a massacre by the Natchez late the previous year. The conflict between the French and the Natchez had its origins in disputes over land. The Compagnie d'Occident (later the Compagnie des Indes) had established several tobacco plantations in the environs of Fort...- Date: 1730-01-01
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MapTaking Possession of Louisiana and the Mississippi River, in the Name of Louis XIVth, by Cavelier de La Salle [From Rouen] on April 9, 1682.
Prise de Possession de la Louisiane et du Fleuve Mississipi, Au Nom de Louis XIV, par Cavelier de la Salle [de Rouen], le 9 Avril 1682. Dédiée au Général T. Beauregard, et accompagné d'un texte explicatif This lithograph from the 1870s by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin illustrates the claiming of Louisiana for France by René Robert Cavelier de La Salle, an event that helped to make La Salle one of the heroes of France's first colonial empire. La Salle was born in Rouen in 1643. Educated at a Jesuit college, he originally intended to enter the priesthood, but in 1666 he left...- Contributor: Bocquin, Jean-Adolphe, Active 19th Century
- Date: 1870-01-01
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