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<p>To celebrate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) has pursued the ambitious goal of publishing an atlas that depicts Louisiana's history through maps. The result of those efforts is <i>Charting Louisiana</i>. This book, THNOC's bicentennial gift to the public, offers a rich selection of historic and contemporary maps from various sources that collectively illustrate the region's diverse history, from its multinational colonial experiences to the modern American state.<br> <br> <i>Charting Louisiana</i> presents 104 maps from THNOC's holdings, representing the full range of the institution's cartographic treasures. The atlas also features sixty-seven important works from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress—custodian of the largest cartographic collection in the world—and contributions from other United States repositories, including the Louisiana State Museum and Chicago's Newberry Library. Archives in France, Spain, Great Britain, and Mexico generously provided the balance, as befits Louisiana's international history.<br> <br> The product of this cooperative effort is an unprecedented compilation of 193 hig

Who reads Charting Louisiana : five hundred years of maps?

Author

Alfred E. Lemmon, John T. Magill, and Jason R. Wiese; John R. Hébert, consulting editor

Publisher

New Orleans: Historic New Orleans Collection

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780917860478

Category

history

Subjects

Travel, History, Anthropology

Rating

4.4 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14