Format Map
Dates 1763
Location Gulf Coast
Mississippi
United States
Language English
Subjects Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast (U.S.)
Mississippi
United States
Title
A Plan of West Florida, the Isle of Orleans, and some parts of the Spanish dominions to the westward of the Mississipi.
Description
Scale 1:760,320; 12 miles to an in.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Shows the present state of Mississippi, southeastern Louisiana, and Mobile Bay.
Includes note on navigation and "This line being proposed to be the eastern boundary of the New Collony is supposed to run parrallel to the R. Mississipi and to continue in this direction 'till it strikes on the R. Ohio."
Mounted on cloth backing.
Printed label describing the map mounted on verso.
Annotated in black ink in lower left corner: 175.
Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 94.
Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 367892/27.
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1601
LC Luso-Hispanic World, 841
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
col. map 146 x 51 cm.
Created Published
[ca. 1763]
Subject Headings
-  Mississippi
-  Gulf Coast (U.S.)
-  United States--Mississippi.
-  United States--Gulf Coast.
Notes
-  Scale 1:760,320; 12 miles to an in.
-  Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
-  Shows the present state of Mississippi, southeastern Louisiana, and Mobile Bay.
-  Includes note on navigation and "This line being proposed to be the eastern boundary of the New Collony is supposed to run parrallel to the R. Mississipi and to continue in this direction 'till it strikes on the R. Ohio."
-  Mounted on cloth backing.
-  Printed label describing the map mounted on verso.
-  Annotated in black ink in lower left corner: 175.
-  Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 94.
-  Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 367892/27.
-  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1601
-  LC Luso-Hispanic World, 841
-  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Medium
col. map 146 x 51 cm.
Call Number
G3980 1763 .P5
Repository
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id
g3980 ar160100 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3980.ar160100
Library of Congress Catalog Number
74692219
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