Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows cities and towns and features in the region along the Mississippi River. In lower right corner: Archives du Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marin More
Relief shown pictorially. Shows the lower Mississippi River from the vicinity of New Orleans to its mouth, east portion of lake Pontchartrain, and estuaries. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounte More
Shows the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans from Colapissas to English Turn, lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, location of Native American settlements, fortifications, and natural features. Pen-a More
Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 462" and hand-written title of "No. 4 Missipi from Balise to Plaquemines telegraphik line" on More
At head of title: U.S. Coast Survey. Prof. A. D. Bache, Supt. Stamped in lower right corner: From collection of David Dixon Porter. Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, covering the environs of forts More
Scale 1:84,480 ("3/4 of an inch = one mile"). LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 299.8 From U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Supplemental report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the W More
Scale 1:12,000. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 299 The number and type of guns in the "batteries on Kentucky shore" and in the "batteries on Island no. 10" are included in the legend. Description derived from pub More
In lower left margin: Report of Maj. Gen. John Pope to the Committee on the Conduct of War. Similar to the preceding map. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 301 Description derived from published bibliography. Availa More
Annotated in pencil on verso: Plan of Fort Jackson. [1862?]. From the Joseph R. Hawley papers in LC Manuscript Division. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 237 Includes explanatory note. Available also through the Lib More
Scale 1:84,480. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 300 In lower left margin: Report of Maj. Gen. John Pope to the Committee on the Conduct of War. "No. 1" is in the upper right margin. Similar to the preceding map, b More
Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass"; some are identified as the "Colorado, 40 Guns", "Pensacola on the Bar", "Westfi More
Scale ca. 1:8,700. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 271.2 From Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an appendix, containing reports from officers. December 1863, (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1863) More
Includes note describing positions of Union "mortar flotilla" on April 18-21, 1862. Annotated in pencil on verso: Forts of Jackson/St. Philip, [1863?]. "The Forts from data furnished by the Chief Engineer, U.S. More
Scale ca. 1:325,000. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 298 From Century illustrated monthly magazine, v. 30, June 1885. p. 324. Fortifications, Confederate batteries, mortar and gun boats, and vegetation are shown. More
Picryl description: Public domain image of a golf field, park, outdoor activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Workers posed among logs in The Mississippi River plain, and a farmer working in a cotton field in the Arkansas River Valley. Engraving by Brinkerhoff & Barnett Co. of Chicago and Gatchell & Manning of Philadel More