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Title Plan du fort de l'isle de la Balise ou l'on à marqué tres éxactement les ouvrages qui sont faits ex ceux qui restent à faire, par des coulers...

Date 1726

Place Fort Balise (La.), Louisiana--Fort Balise, Mississippi River Delta (La.)

Language French

Subjects Fortification, Manuscript maps

Description Sheet 83 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.
Oriented with north at lower right.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, brown, yellow, blue, red); mounted on cloth.
Variously associated with Bernard Devergés, Adrien Pauger, and an engineer named La Tour; see Jackson, J. Manuscript maps concerning the Gulf Coast (Chicago: Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, 1995) p. 36, no. 174.
Related to manuscripts variously dated 1722-1740 in the Newberry Library (Ayer MS map 30, sheet 82, Ayer MS map 156 and Ayer MS map 157), the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ge DD 2987-8823, Ge DD 2987-8824, and "Bibliothèque Impériale R.C. 4138"), the Archives Nationales (A.N. N3 no. 3), the Service Hydrographique archives (S.H.A. 138-3-6), and the British Library (Additional 15,332 ki and kii). Photostats of the manuscripts in Europe (excluding "Bibliothèque Impériale R.C. 4138") form part of the Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection (Newberry Library). Shot from 4x5 transparency.

Summary Plan of Fort Balise on Toulouse Island (later submerged), located at the mouth of the Southeast Pass of the Mississippi River Delta; cf. Roberts, R.B. Encyclopedia of historic forts (1988). Includes "Explication" with references A-I, K-T, V, and X-Z, comprised of 71 lines of notes divided between the left margin and title cartouche.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 511 x 1,057 mm

Format Manuscript maps, Maps--Early works to 1800, Nautical charts

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

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 83

BibID 991759918805867

Size 6127px × 2724px 47.76 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Filename 991759918805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_83.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KMDP

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