Mississippi River, Sheet # 24.

Subject

Mississippi River from Preston Plantation to Port Allen, Louisiana. Tributary rivers and streams, cut-offs, oxbow deviations, levees, named landings, location of railroads, Poplar Grove Plantation, Profit Island, Springfield Bend, Thomas point, Scotland Landing, Bertrand's Landing, False River, Point Coupee, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge Parishes.

Date
1884-1906
Mapmaker
Molitor, Edward
Publisher

Mississippi River Commission

Place of Publication

[St. Louis, Mo.]

Accession Number
T0055.1997.0218.11
Condition
Poor. Acidified, brittle, bowning, tears, partially mounted on craft paper, foxing.
Curatorial Notes

Should be deaccessioned. Second copy of this map located T0055.1997.0217.29

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 1883, 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