Isle Massacre ou Dauphine

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Isle Massacre ou Dauphine
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Item Information

Title:
Isle Massacre ou Dauphine
Description:
Map of the French settlement at Dauphin Island in Mobile Bay as it appeared ca. 1719. Includes drawings of individual buildings and two ships offshore; keyed to numbers 1-17; from army officer Dumont de Montigny's 1747 manuscript memoire of his experiences in Louisiana between 1715-1737.
Creator:
Dumont de Montigny
Date:
[1747]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
Newberry Library
Collection (local):
Louis C. Karpinski Map Collection
Subjects:
Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800
Dauphin Island (Ala.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Alabama > Mobile (county) > Dauphin Island (island)
Extent:
1 ms. map : hand col. ; 164 x 217 mm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
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Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:200,000]
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma991477188805867
Notes:
Note on verso: Golphe du Méxìque. No. 2, page 55.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, yellow).
No. 2 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.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Call #:
Ayer MS 257 map 2 (NLO)