Collection Items

  • Map
    Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans. Includes index. Pulication information from atlas. In upper right corner: Tome 1 no 45. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
    • Date: 1764-01-01
  • Map
    Carte de la découverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amérique septen... Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Liebaux - Marquette, Jacques
    • Date: 1681-01-01
  • Map
    Amérique septentrionale Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Prime meridian: [Paris]. Mounted on cloth backing. From his 1658 (i.e. 1660) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (Phillips 4260). First state: Lacks shading along border for Lake Ontario. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 560 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Mariette, Pierre-Jean - Peyrounin, A. - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1650-01-01
  • Map
    Nouvelle decouverte de plusieurs nations dans la Nouvelle Fra...
    Joliet's map, 1674
    From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 59, p. facing 86. 8 x 10 film negative available in G&M Reading Room. Part of the Missisippi River exhibit. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1674] Facsimile. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Burrows Brothers Company - Joliet, Louis
    • Date: 1896-01-01
  • Map
    Franquelin's map of Louisiana.
    Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle
    "Reduced facsimile of MS. copy (made in Paris for Francis Parkman), now in the Library of Harvard University. The original, formerly in the Archives de la Marine, Paris, has been lost." From the Jesuit Relations, vol. 63, frontispiece. Facsimile. Original version: [S.l. : s.n., 1684] Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis
    • Date: 1896-01-01
  • Map
    Amérique septentrion.lle [i.e. septentrionale] : composée, co... Covers Canada, Hudson Bay region, and eastern United States. Shows lakes, rivers, villages, and other geographical entities. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. "A Monseigneu, Monseigneur le Marquis de Seignelay, et de Lonré, baron de Seaux, conseiller du Roy en tous conseils, secretaire d'estat & des commandemens de Sa Majesté, commandeur et grand thresorier de ses ordres. Par son très-humble très-obéissant & très obligé serviteur I-Baptiste Louis...
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis
  • Map
    Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionnale : depuis le 25, jusqu'au ... Copied between 1909 and 1910 from the original 1688 ms. in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In margin: Bibliotheque du Depot des cartes et plans de la Marina, Paris, Atlas 4040B, piece n. 3. Includes indexed inset of view "Quebec comme il se voit du cóté de l'est." Available also through the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis
    • Date: 1688-01-01
  • Map
    Hudson's Bay's country after La Veranderie, about 1740.
    Carte des nouvelles découvertes dans l'Ouest du Canada et des nations, qui y habitent
    Relief shown pictorially. Shows lakes, rivers, fortifications, and Indian tribes in the western region of the Hudson Bay south to the northern part of Lake Superior. French. Title and accompanying text in English. Based on the original in the Dépôt de la Marine of Paris. Oriented with north toward upper right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as...
    • Contributor: Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg) - La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier De Varennes
    • Date: 1850-01-01
  • Map
    Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi [i.e. Mississ... Covers United States from Rio Grande River to Hudson River. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Item 46 in LC Kohl exhibition, Mar. to June 1993. Phillips. Maps of America. Includes notes. Inset: Carte particuliere des embouchures de la Rivie. S. Louis et de la Mobile. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy mounted on cloth...
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De
    • Date: 1718-01-01
  • Map
    La Floride Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coastline from Secotan in Virginia to Planuco in Mexico; the interior is shown to 40 degrees of latitude north and includes lakes and rivers in the region. Prime meridian: [Ferro]. Appears to be no. [3] detached from: L'Amériqve en plvsievrs cartes novvelles, et exactes, &c., ... Paris, [1657?] -P.L. Phillips, A list of geographical atlases in the Library of...
    • Contributor: Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1657-01-01
  • Map
    Carte générale du territoire d'Orléans comprenant aussi la Fl... Relief shown by form lines. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Map in 4 sections mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. Copy 1 black-and-white annotated in red ink; copy 2 col. and copy 3 black-and-white without annotations.
    • Contributor: Lafon, Barthélémy - Picquet, Charles
    • Date: 1806-01-01
  • Map
    Plan général du Fort Septentrional du Detour des Anglois, tel... Relief shown pictorially. Shows buildings, internal facilities, and surrounding area. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. Copy annotated in pencil in lower left margin: 84482. A progress report on construction of a fortification on the east bank of the Mississippi River below New Orleans. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 949 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Batz, Alexandre De
    • Date: 1749-01-01
  • Map
    Plan 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
  • Map
    The Mississippi Relief shown pictorially. Shows trees, animals, and names of the Indian nations. Pen-and-ink and watercolor mounted on cloth. Manuscript copy of manuscript original. "This is the copy of a sketch of the Mississippi River and country, contained in a manuscript map ... has the following title Carte génerale de la France septentrionale, contenant dans la dʹecouverte du pays des Ilinois ... made by the...
    • Contributor: Joliet, Louis - Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg) - Franquelin, Jean Baptiste Louis
    • Date: 1850-01-01
  • Map
    Les costes aux environs de la rivière de Misisipi : découvert... Shows locations of Indian villages found by La Salle during his explorations of the coastal areas of the United States. From: L'Atlas curieux / N. de Fer. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text entitled "Description de la Découverte du Missisipi, par N. de Fer" and ill. in title area.
    • Contributor: Ginville, Vincent De - Fer, Nicolas De
    • Date: 1701-01-01
  • Map
    Carte de la rivière de Mississipi : sur les mémoires de Mr. L... Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows cities and towns and features in the region along the Mississippi River. In lower right corner: Archives du Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine, Paris. "No. 9--124885." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: L'isle, Guillaume De - France. Dépôt Des Cartes Et Plans De La Marine
    • Date: 1702-01-01
  • Map
    Carte particulière du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis le vil... Shows the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans from Colapissas to English Turn, lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, location of Native American settlements, fortifications, and natural features. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Copy annotated in pencil: No 5 and 84482-06. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes wind rose. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 915
    • Contributor: Saucier, F.
    • Date: 1749-01-01
  • Map
    La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, ... Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
    • Contributor: Fer, Nicolas De
    • Date: 1720-01-01