Carte Particulière d'une partie de la Louisiane ou du Fleuve Mississipi – Antique Wall Map
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Carte Particulière d'une partie de la Louisiane ou du Fleuve Mississipi. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Carte Particulière d'une partie de la Louisiane ou du Fleuve Mississipi
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Its French title, "Carte Particulière d'une partie de la Louisiane ou du Fleuve Mississipi," sets it apart from the broader regional maps on this board: it focuses on a particular stretch of Louisiana and the Mississippi River. France claimed the river valley after La Salle's 1682 descent to the Gulf, and maps like this one helped guide settlement, trade and military planning along the waterways. Cartographers of the period usually worked from surveys and reports sent back from the colony, combining close river detail with interior geography that was often incomplete or speculative. Today such sheets are valued as records of how Europeans first pictured a landscape they were still learning to navigate.
| Original scan | 3,593 × 4,186 px · prints to 12 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | MISSIS~1 |
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