Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi
by Paul Davis
| Title: | Lloyd's map of the lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico; compiled from Government surveys in the Topographical Bureau, Washington, D.C. |
| Author: | Lloyd, James T. |
| Scale: | ca. 1 inch to 5 miles |
| Situation Date: | 1862 |
| Publication Date: | 1862 |
| Type: | Original |
| Features: | Drainage, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, springs, lakes, landings, steamboat channel, river mileage, sugar and cotton plantations, mounds, cities, towns, communities, post offices, land parcels with names of residents/owners, fortifications, railroads. |
| Comments: | General Note: five sheets in file. Signed in ms: "Milliard Fillmore, March 9, 1863." "Rev. (Revised) and corr. (corrected) to the present time / by Captains Bart. and William Bowen, pilots of twenty years' experience on that river.
New York, 1862." Publication Note: Another edition. 4 sheets, each 18.8 x 30 In. dated 1863 is at the Library of Congress-Geography and Map Division. |
| Coverage: | Amite, Wilkinson, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, Claiborne, Warren, Hinds, Issaquena, Yazoo, Washington, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica and DeSoto Counties |
| Repository: | Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division | Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | New York, 1862. |
| Size (inches): | 37 x 10.2 |
| Color: | Y |
| Link: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4042m.rr101390 http://maps.bpl.org/details_14270/?mtid=20 |