Mississippi River, Sheet # 19.

Subject

Mississippi River from Buck Ridge Landing, Louisiana, to Gilliam's Landing, Mississippi. Tributary rivers and streams, cut-offs, oxbow deviations, levees, named landings, location of railroads, Hard Times Bend, Lake St. Joseph, Palmyra Lake, Villa Clara Plantation, St. Joseph, Coffee's Point, Tensas Parish, Somerset Landing to Beilers Landing, La.

Date
1883-1906
Mapmaker
Edward Molitor
Publisher

Mississippi River Commission

Place of Publication

[St. Louis, Mo.]

Accession Number
T0055.1997.0217.24
Condition
Fair. Acidified, brittle, bowning. Needs conservation.
Curatorial Notes

Other maps located T0055.1997.0217.01- 37. Second copy of this map located T0055.1997.0218.06.

Notes

From 1907edition 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 1882-83, shoreline in 1895-96 plus the "latest surveys," controlling levees in 1899 and 1906, names of landings and changed positions of landings.

Size
12 x 22
Storage
c05d09