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Logement de l'autheur a la Nlle. Orleans

Plan of French army officer Dumont de Montigny's property in New Orleans, ca. 1733. Identifies main house, kitchen, negro quarters, ponds and garden; keyed to references 1-11. From Dumont's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.

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Creator

Dumont de Montigny

Date

[1747]

Scale

Scale [ca. 1:573]

Language

French

Location

Newberry Library

Collection (local)

Newberry Library Collection

Subjects
  • Real property--Louisiana--New Orleans--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Landowners--Louisiana--New Orleans--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
  • New Orleans (Miss.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places
  • Louisiana
  • New Orleans
  • North and Central America
  • Orleans (county)
  • United States
Extent

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 63 x 216 mm.

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Notes
  • Note on verso: No. 14, page 409.
  • Pen-and-ink and watercolor (yellow, green, blue, grey).
  • No. 21 of 23 maps and drawings detached and bound together, from: Dumont de Montigny. Memoire de Lxx Dxx Officiere Ingenieur, contenant les evenemens qui se sont passés à la Louisiane depuis 1715 jusqu'a present [1747]
  • Ms. memoire adapted by Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier and published as Dumont de Montigny, Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris: C.J.B. Bauche, 1753.

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