Plan de la Nlle. Orleans, ville capitalle de la Louissianne

Metadata

Creator	Dumont de Montigny
Date	[1747]
Scale	Scale [ca. 1:20,000]
Language	French
Location	Newberry Library
Collection (local)	Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection
Subjects	Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800 New Orleans (La.)--Maps--Early works to 1800 Land grants--Louisiana--New Orleans--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places	Louisiana New Orleans North and Central America Orleans (county) United States
Extent	1 ms. map : hand col. ; 340 x 455 mm.
Terms and License	No known copyright restrictions. Contact host institution for more information.
Notes	Oriented with the northwest at the top. Note on verso: No. 7, page 133. Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow, gray, red). No. 7 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747] Related map published as Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans, capitale de la Louisiane in Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane (Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753) v. 2, bet. p. 50-51. Photostats of related manuscript maps in the French Ministère de la Guerre archives and the Archives Nationales, shelfmarks "Guerre. Etat-Major 7C 216" and "A.N. N³ no.1¹", form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library). Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.