Section of the Ross Map
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content: NAA INV 9420000 ; OPPS NEG 1102 B 2
name: label: Creator
content: Jefferys, Thomas
creator: label: Creator
content: Jefferys, Thomas
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Jefferys, Thomas
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content: 1 Glass negative
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1765
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 1102 B 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass negatives
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content: A copy of this Ross Map is in the collection of the Library of Congress (size 44 x 13 1/2). The Ross Map is described by the Library of Congress as follows:"Course of the Mississippi from the Balise to Fort Chartres. Taken on an expedition to the Illinois in the latter end of the year 1765. By Lieut. Ross of the 34th Regiment. 44 x 13 1/2." Plate 26 in The American Atlas by Thomas Jefferys, 1775." Reproductions may be ordered directly from the Photoduplication Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.  Submitted by D. I. Bushnell, Jr. Reproduced as Plate 2 in David I. Bushnell, Jr., "The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana," Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 48, Washington, 1909.