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Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico
Title
Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico [cartographic material] / compiled from Government surveys in the Topographical Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Edition
Revised and corrected to the present time, by Captains Bart, and William Bowen, pilots of twenty years' experience on that river, 1862.
Published
New York : J.T. Lloyd, 1862.
Physical Description
1 map in 5 sections : color ; each section 26 x 87 cm or smaller, on sheet 94 x 128 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale [1:316,800] . 1 in. = 5 miles.
Local Notes
BEIN Covers 807 1862: Mounted on linen.
Notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Shows roads, towns, county boundaries, railroads, land tracts and ownership, notable physical features, and layout of larger cities.
Includes explanation, list of other maps available from publisher.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by J.T. LLOYD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."
"Exhibiting the sugar and cotton plantations, cities, towns, landings, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, the steamboat channel, mileage, fortifications, railroads, &c. along the river."
At head of sections: No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5.
Variant and related titles
Lloyd's map of lower Mississippi River used by Secy. Navy
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2008
References
Library of Congress. Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 28
LC Railroad maps, 139
Subjects
Genre/Form
Cadastral maps.
Maps.
Cadastral maps.
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