<i>CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DU COURS DU MISSISSIPPI Dressee sur un grand nombre de Memoires entrautres sur ceux de Mr le Maire Par Guillaume DeLisle de l’Academie Rle des Sciences</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1718
notes: label: Description
content: In 1718, a French merchant company laid the foundations for the city of New Orleans. That same year, Guillame Delisle (or DeLisle) published this map of Louisiana and the course of the Mississippi River. The inscription reads “a Paris Chez l’Auteur le Sr Delisle sur le Quay de l’Horloge avec Privilege du Roy Juin 1718.” An inset at lower right shows the mouth of the Mississippi River; the text here reads “CARTE PARTICULIERE DES EMBOUCHURES DE LA RIVIE S. LOUIS ET DE LA MOBILE.”
label: Description
content: This map extends from 26° to 46° latitude north, and from 271° to 306° longitude west from Paris. It shows numerous Indian settlements as well as routes followed by such explorers as DeSoto, Deni, Cavier, and de Tonty. It helped bolster the French claim to ownership of this part of North America. And it was widely copied.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. V. Tooley, “French Mapping of the Americas,” <i>Map Collectors Circle</i> 33 (1967).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317820
label: catalog number
content: 317820
label: accession number
content: 231759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 3/4 in x 30 3/4 in; 55.245 cm x 78.105 cm