Title
Carte particulière d'une partie de la Louisianne ou les fleuve et rivierres [i.e. rivières] onts etés relevé a l'estime & les routtes [i.e. routes] par terre relevé & mesurées aux pas, par les Srs. Broutin, de Vergés, ingénieurs & Saucier dessinateur
Description
Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounted on cloth backing. Prime meridian: [Paris]. "This map of the Mississippi River Valley from Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico as far east as Mobile includes interior streams, routes, European communities, and Native American settlements and nations, fortifications ... Map concentrates on the surveys of Broutin, Vergés, and Saucier in Mississippi and Alabama ..." Includes text. Copy annotated in pencil in upper margin: 84482.06. Copy imperfect: Waterstained. LC Luso-Hispanic world, 823 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Subjects
maps, manuscript
Title
The Mississippi
Description
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 Sieur Jolliet ... our present map ... is one of the first French maps of the Mississippi River ever made, if not the very first one itself." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes a discussion of the origin, significance, and contents of the map. In upper left corner: 229.
Subjects
mississippi river region
Title
A map of America between latitudes 40 and 70 north and longitudes 45 and 180 west exhibiting Mackenzie's track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the north sea in 1789 & to the west Pacific Ocean in 1793.
Description
"... Published 15 Oct. 1801 ..." Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Subjects
canada
Title
Carte general de toute la côte de la Louisianne jusqu'a la Baye St. Bernard, coste de la Floride, Baye de la Mobille, Be. de Pansacole, Baye de St. Ioseph, St. Marc des Apalaches. dans l'Amerique septentle., 1747
Description
LC Luso-Hispanic World, 822 Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Subjects
united states
Title
[Map of Missouri River and vicinity from Saint Charles, Missouri, to Mandan villages of North Dakota : used by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in their 1804 expedition up Missouri River].
Description
Date from accompanying text. Relief shown by symbols for "Black Mountains" or Black Hills. Some place names in both English and French. Based on surveys up to the Mandan-Hidatsa villages by James Mackay and John Evans. Longitudinal errors, at least in part, account for map not being drawn to scale. Prime meridian: Paris [?]. Pen-and-ink. Some pen-and-ink annotations made after 1798. Map backed with Japanese tissue paper. Accompanied by photocopy of text on mapping of de Finiels: Missouri Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 4, July 1987, p. 387-402. On verso written in pen-and-ink by William Henry Harrison but unsigned: For Captn. William Clark or Captn. Meriwether Lewis on their voyage up the Mississippi. Also on verso written in pen-and-ink: Mr. Peter Tabeau at the Ricraries. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Stains, darkening, tears, creases, and small pieces missing.
Subjects
united states
Title
Louisiana.
Description
From: Carey's General atlas of the world and quarters. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Subjects
united states
Title
Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans : from an actual survey made in 1815
Description
Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. Includes ill. of buildings, with name and date of construction for each. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Subjects
united states
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