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Plan du Fort Frontenac ou Cataracouy

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Title Plan du Fort Frontenac ou Cataracouy

Date 1720

Place Ontario--Fort Frontenac (Fort), Ontario--Kingston

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Indians of North America, Manuscript maps

Description Possiby by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry; see description and reproduction in Buisseret, David. Mapping the French empire in North America (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991) p. [44]-45, no. 20.
Sheet 108 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, grey, brown, red, yellow); mounted on cloth.
Reduced facsimile published Kingston, Ont.: Cataraqui Archeaological Research Foundation, 1985.

Summary Details Fort Frontenac (previously the Indian village of Cataraqui), later to become the site of Kingston in Ontario. Includes the footprints of the fort and its well, gardens, outbuildings, stone kiln, adjacent Indian cabins, and a pictorial drawing (45 x 110 mm.): Elevation des cabannes sauvages.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 489 x 687 mm, on sheet 562 x 738 mm

Format Manuscript maps, Maps, Nautical charts

Archival Collection Title Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 108

BibID 991814768805867

Projects Tag Edward E. Ayer Digital Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 10141px × 7878px 457.17 MB

Filename 991814768805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_108.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMKZ

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