File:1853 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Delta - Geographicus - MissDelta-uscs-1852.jpg
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Sketch H. Showing the progress of the Survey in Section No. 8 1846 - 1852. | |||||||
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Title |
Sketch H. Showing the progress of the Survey in Section No. 8 1846 - 1852. |
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Description |
English: An attractive hand colored 1853 U.S. Coast Survey triangulation chart or map of the Mississippi Delta. Depicts the Mississippi Delta and the Gulf Coast from Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana eastward past New Orleans, as far as Mobile Bay, Alabama. The hand color work on this beautiful map is exceptionally well done. This map was compiled under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States and one of the most influential American cartographers of the 19th century. |
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Date | 1852 (dated) | ||||||
Dimensions |
height: 15 in (38.1 cm); width: 19 in (48.2 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,15U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,19U218593 |
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Accession number |
Geographicus link: MissDelta-uscs-1852 |
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Source/Photographer |
Report of the Superintendant of the U.S. Coast Survey, (1853 edition).
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current | 14:01, 22 March 2011 | 4,000 × 3,213 (3.51 MB) | BotMultichillT (talk | contribs) | {{subst:User:Multichill/Geographicus |link=http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/MissDelta-uscs-1852 |product_name=1853 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Delta |map_title=Sketch H. Showing the progress of the |
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