Rare and Monumental "Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi, from Natchez to New Orleans" hand-colored lithograph after Marie Adrien Persac's (French/Louisiana, 1823-1873) drawn survey of the plantation holdings along the river, published by B.. M. Norman, New Orleans, 1858, printed by J. H. Colton and Company, New York. Glazed in a float-mounted frame; together with its original cloth-bound board portfolio with tooling and gilt lettering, 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". sheet 63-1/2" x 31-1/2", framed 72" x 40" Notes: Norman's monumental map of the plantations from New Orleans to Natchez is regarded by historians and collectors as the most important map ever produced of the region - as it accurately charts the types of plantations, the owners, locations of schools, post-offices, hotels and churches on both sides of the Mississippi in the antebellum era. In 1938, it was
Rare and Monumental "Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi, from Natchez to New Orleans" hand-colored lithograph after Marie Adrien Persac's (French/Louisiana, 1823-1873) drawn survey of the plantation holdings along the river, published by B.. M. Norman, New Orleans, 1858, printed by J. H. Colton and Company, New York. Glazed in a float-mounted frame; together with its original cloth-bound board portfolio with tooling and gilt lettering, 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". sheet 63-1/2" x 31-1/2", framed 72" x 40" Notes: Norman's monumental map of the plantations from New Orleans to Natchez is regarded by historians and collectors as the most important map ever produced of the region - as it accurately charts the types of plantations, the owners, locations of schools, post-offices, hotels and churches on both sides of the Mississippi in the antebellum era. In 1938, it was
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