Survey of the Mississippi River

Sub-Title
Made under the direction of the Mississippi River Commission...Chart No. 76
Subject

Mississippi River from "Present Upper Limits of Port of New Orleans," (Nine Mile Point and Carrollton Bend), to Port Chalmette and "Lower Limits of Port of New Orleans.) Revetements of Carrollton Bend, Greenville Bend, Amesville, Styvesant, Goldsboro, Algiers Point, Third District Reach. Algiers, New Orleans, Ames Crevasse (1891), Aurora Plantation, Aorleans Plantation, other plantations.

Date
1909 [historical]
Mapmaker
[Julius Bien Co., lithographers]
Publisher

Mississippi River Commission Created by Act of Congress June 28, 1879

Place of Publication

[New York]

Accession Number
T0055.1997.0799
Alternate number
OMC 064
Condition
Formerly tightly rolled.
Insets
Index chart
Notes

Detailed map of Mississippi River depth soundings. Includes names of some land owners. From atlas "Detail Map of the Lower Mississisppi River from the Mouth of the Ohio River to the Head of the Passes in Eighty Three Sheets." Collection houses only chart # 3-11, 76. Projected from a trigonometrical survey made by the U. S. Coast Survey in 1874.

Media Type
reproduction
Size
36 x 22
Storage
c05d08