Newberry Library - Map of the Southern Indian District of North America

Title Map of the Southern Indian District of North America

Date Created 1775

Subjects Cherokee Indians, Chickasaw Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians

Description Pen-and-ink and outline watercolor (red, green, yellow, brown). Drawn on 25 sheets pasted together, sectioned into 24 panels, and mounted on cloth. Damaged with some loss of detail. Subsequently detached from cloth and mounted on 12 sheets of heavy paper, each 490 x 580 mm.

Summary Shows North America east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio River. References identify 155 Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee villages. Includes notes on Indian land claims and cessions. Date of compilation, fuller description, and bibliographic references in: Cumming, William Patterson. The Southeast in early maps / rev. and enl. by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. 3d ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998) p. 323-324, no. 438, and plates 68-71.

Biographical/Historical Note [Biographical / Historical Note Long]

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 1,888 x 1,706 mm

Format Maps--Early works to 1800

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number Ayer MS map 228

BibID 146268

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQ37SWV

Filename 991462688805867_MM20-0191_vault_ayer_map_ms_map_228_sheet

Unique identifier NL11IYUK

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