Title:

Plan del nuevo camino p[ar]a la capital que los habitantes del Puerto de Atakapas ...

Authors:

= Goussoulin, Francisco = = Caso y Luengo, Francisco = = Archivo General de Indias = = Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) = = Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) = = Newberry Library. Manuscript map. Ayer MS 1911 map 2

Date:

[1913]

Size:

1 photostat : map ; 144 x 102 mm.

Notes:

Atapakas 11 de Septbre de 1795.
Reduced photostat produced 1913 from 1795 manuscript map possibly compiled by a colonial official named Goussoulin.
Shows proposed canal routes through the bayous by the colonial town of Puerto de Atakapas in south central Louisiana, on the twentieth century site of Saint Martinville. Includes soundings and 'Observacion' lettered A-P.
Original map in the Archivo General de Indias, Papeles procedentes de Cuba, Legajo 32.
Scale not determined. '2520 toesas. 3 millas.'
Forms part of: Collection of photostatic reproductions of selected documents from the Papeles procedentes de la isla de Cuba in the Archivo General de Indias (1768-1820), Legajo 32 (Ayer MS 1819 v. 3, pl. 140).
Contents of Legajo 32 listed in: Hill, Roscoe R. Descriptive catalogue of the documents relating to the history of the United States in the Papeles procedentes de Cuba deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916) p. 16.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library).
Ayer ms map proj 97

Call Number:

Ayer MS 1911 map 2

Subjects:

Saint Martinville Region (La.) - Maps - 1795 - Canals - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Canals - Saint Martinville Region (La.) - Maps - 1795 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Bayous - Louisiana - Saint Martinville Region - Maps - 1795 - Manuscripts - Facsimiles / Maps, Manuscript - Facsimiles