Mississippi River, Sheet # 17.
Subject
Mississippi River from Melville Landing, Louisiana to Butler Landing, Mississippi. Tributary rivers and streams, cut-offs, oxbow deviations, levees, named landings, location of railroads, Milliken's Bend, Young's Point Landing.
Date
1883-1906
Mapmaker
Edward Molitor
Publisher
Mississippi River Commission
Place of Publication
[St. Louis, Mo.]
Accession Number
T0055.1997.0218.04
Condition
Fair. Acidified, brittle, bowning Should be desaccessioned.
Curatorial Notes
Second copy of this map located T0055.1997.0217.22
Notes
From 1907 edition of atlas, "Map of the Lower Mississippi River from the Mouth of the Ohio River to the Head of the Passes, in thirty two sheets." Indicates surveys taken 1882, shoreline in 1894 plus the "latest surveys," controlling levees in 1899 and 1906, names of landings and changed positions of landings. The Yazoo Diversion Canal is delieated.
Size
12 x 22
Storage
c05d09