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Navy Floatplane 25
Title
Navy Floatplane 25
Date
1927
Description
U.S. Navy floatplane 25 on river. Mississippi River flood of 1927.
Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviera de MISSISIPI, de'couverte par fell Mr. de La Salle
Title
Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviera de MISSISIPI, de'couverte par fell Mr. de La Salle
Date
1713
Description
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.
Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Title
Carte de la Louisiane cours du Mississipi et Pays Voisins
Date
1744
Description
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.
Coast Guard Cutter 251
Title
Coast Guard Cutter 251
Date
1927
Description
Coast Guard Cutter 251 during the Great Flood, 1927.
Navy Floatplane 4
Title
Navy Floatplane 4
Date
1927
Description
U.S. Navy floatplane 4 on river. Mississippi River flood of 1927.
Louisiana - Inhabitants of - Levees - Mississippi. Petition Relative to Levees on the Mississippi.
Title
Louisiana - Inhabitants of - Levees - Mississippi. Petition Relative to Levees on the Mississippi.
Date
1836
Description
A request from the citizens of Louisiana to the United States Congress for the government to build six-foot levees along the Mississippi River in the state of Louisiana and the Arkansas Territory. At head of title: 24th Congress, 1st session Doc. no. 265 Ho. of Reps.
Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer and Commercial Directory of the Mississippi River
Title
Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer and Commercial Directory of the Mississippi River
Date
1866
Description
Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer covers the businesses, trades, ports, and telegraphs for the towns and cities along the Mississippi River in 1866.
Course of the River Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres
Title
Course of the River Mississippi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres
Date
1778
Description
Details Mississippi River in 1765. Published in 1778 edition of: The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America: wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands ; and chiefly the British colonies, composed from numerous surveys / several of which were made by order of government by Major Holland ... [et al.] ; engraved on
Sandbagged Levee
Title
Sandbagged Levee
Date
1927
Description
A sandbagged levee during the 1927 Mississippi River flood. Railroad tracks and homes are in the background of the photograph.
A Memorial to Congress to Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River
Title
A Memorial to Congress to Secure an Adequate Appropriation for a Prompt and Thorough Improvement of the Mississippi River
Date
1877
Description
Other title: "Give Us An Unobstructed Mississippi." Memorial about Commerce and Trade on the Mississippi River
Nouvelle carte particulière de l'Amérique
Title
Nouvelle carte particulière de l'Amérique
Date
1741
Description
Popple was an associate of astronomer and mathematician, Edmund Halley, and the advertisement in the inset cartouche for this map stresses that friendship in an endorsement for the map’s accuracy, depicting fields, forts, towns, rivers, bogs, forests, all from St. Louis’s future area, well mapped, showing the Missouri River in detailed positioning, also the Meramec River, Cahokia and Kaskaskia to the projected source of the Mississippi, making the most detailed English attempt to map the reaches of the upper Mississippi to its time.

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