Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
1860

Antebellum Map of New Orleans, Louisiana

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Plan of New Orleans

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Attractive antique map from 1860 of New Orleans, Louisiana with 11 of its 17 wards. On the West Bank of the Mississippi River three early neighborhoods are identified by their old (current) name: Algiers (Algiers Point); MacDonough (McDonogh), and Belle Ville (Whitney). Most of the boundaries of Wards 1 through 11 were drawn in 1852 when the city was reorganized into one centralized political entity. Online.

This neat, colorful old map clearly shows several early canals which evolved for both drainage and transport over a long period. For example the Carondelet Canal or Old Basin Canal, was a canal in New Orleans, operating for almost 135 years- from 1794 into the 1920s. The canal started at Bayou St. John, which connected with Lake Pontchartrain, and went inland to what was then the back edge of New Orleans, in the Tremé neighborhood. The two-acre turning basin at the head of the Canal inspired the naming of Basin Street in New Orleans.

Attribution at bottom reads: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the clerks office of the District Court of the U.S. for the eartern District of Pennsylvania. Number 33.

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Sr. (1792-1868) is one of the pioneers in American cartography of the 19th century and led the conversion of engraved map plates to more affordable lithographic plates.

CREATOR: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus

PUBLICATION DATE: 1860

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Mississippi River

CONDITION: Very Good.  A solid clean piece. Hint of age-toning.

COLORING: Original lithographed color with outline hand-color.

ENGRAVER: J.H. Brightly

SIZE: 11 " x 9 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $

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