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Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier.
Historias Paralelas: España, Estados Unidos y la Frontera Americana.


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A Plan of West Florida, the Isle of Orleans, and some parts of the Spanish dominions to the westward of the Mississipi.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[ca. 1763]

NOTES
Scale 1:760,320; 12 miles to an in.

Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.

Shows the present state of Mississippi, southeastern Louisiana, and Mobile Bay.

Includes note on navigation and "This line being proposed to be the eastern boundary of the New Collony is supposed to run parrallel to the R. Mississipi and to continue in this direction 'till it strikes on the R. Ohio."

Mounted on cloth backing.

Printed label describing the map mounted on verso.

Annotated in black ink in lower left corner: 175.

Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 94.

Order number annotated in pencil in lower margin: 367892/27.

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1601

LC Luso-Hispanic World, 841

SUBJECTS
Mississippi--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Gulf Coast (U.S.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
United States--Mississippi.
United States--Gulf Coast.

RELATED TITLES
[Maggs purchase map collection ; 258i]
West Florida.
Isle of Orleans.

MEDIUM
col. map 146 x 51 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G3980 1763 .P5 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g3980 ar160100 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3980.ar160100

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier. Selections from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division)

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