Map appears in Henri Joutel's Journal Historique du Dernier Voyage que Feu M. de LaSale Fit Dans le Golfe de Mexique... Published by Chez E. Robinot, 1713.
Red Cross Chairman James Fieser, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover at Camp Natchez, Mississippi, during the 1927 Mississippi River flood.
James Pierce Butler, Jr. (fifth from right) and Leroy Percy (3rd from right) during the 1927 Mississippi River flood. Butler was president of the Canal Bank. Leroy Percy was once Senator of Mississippi.
An early printing of Marquette and Joliet’s travels in the Mississippi valley provided some of the first detailed maps and images of the region. This map from Marquette's book shows the various Native American tribes inhabiting the Mississippi River Valley region, from the Gulf of Mexico at the left-hand side of the map up the Mississippi River to Iroquois country.
Guillaume De l’Isle’s “Map of Louisiana and the Mississippi River” is one of the most famous maps in American history, what cartographers call, because of its accuracy and eloquence, a “mother map,” a map in this case that spurred great imitation, innovation, and political thought. The map was originally published in 1718, the year this mapmaker was appointed Chief Geographer to the King (Louis
With numerous botanical illustrations and splendid maps by hydrographer, Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, Charlevoix represents a culmination in the middle of the eighteenth century of what the French knew, or thought they knew, about North America and its rivers and varied lands drained by them. He was sent to North America to find a route to the Pacific and through years of travel and study recommended doing this by the ascent of the Missouri River or through the establishment of posts along traditional native trading routes in Canada, through strategic stepping stones. Charlevoix and Bellin set out to prove that the Missouri and the Mississippi had basically the same headwaters, and the maps in these volumes reflect that thinking in the supposed nearness of the sources of both rivers. The Great Lakes through a vast system not only were connected to the Atlantic but to the Pacific as well. the works of the French explorers and cartographers heavily interested Thomas Jefferson. Charlevoix considered the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers the finest in the world., Statement of Responsibility: Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale / par le P. de Charlevoix.
Refugees with their possessions on high ground at Hamburg, Louisiana during the 1927 Great Flood. Hamburg is submerged by flood waters in the background.