mississippi river

Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the ...

Public domain photograph of a steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Watercolor at the Thomas F. Eagleton, U.S. Courthouse, St. Louis, Miss...

Artist: John Steuart Curry. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the... More

Detail; DeSoto Discovering the Mississippi River in 1541.

Detail; DeSoto Discovering the Mississippi River in 1541. Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illinois River Road - Father Jacques Marquette

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: Father Jacques Marquette talks to a native tribe next to the Mississippi River. Location: Location: Mississippi River, Illinois Status... More

Carte de la decouverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amerique Septentrionale ...

Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Carte de la découverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amérique septentrionale.

Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The Mississippi / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows trees, animals, and names of the Indian nations. Pen-and-ink and watercolor; detached from paper and mounted on cloth backing. "This is the copy of a sketch of the Mississippi Ri... More

Item 153; Mississippi River and New Orleans town sketch, 18th century.

Item 153; Mississippi River and New Orleans town sketch, 18th century.

Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18t...

Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18th century.

Carte de la rivière de Mississipi : sur les mémoires de Mr. Le Sueur q...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows cities and towns and features in the region along the Mississippi River. In lower right corner: Archives du Dépôt des cartes et plans de la marin... More

Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent ...

Map 1 covers area of Minnesota River, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Mississippi River south to Saint Louis. Map 2 covers the area west of the Minnesota River. Both maps drawn within same neat lines, divided... More

Les costes aux environs de la Riviere de Misisipi : decouvertes par Mr...

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Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu Provinciae Ludovicianae â R.P. Lu...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

A new map of the country of Louisiana and of ye river Missisipi in Nor...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations, including an Illustrated cartouche and a view of Niagara Falls, and an index. LC copy mounted on cloth. Phillips, A list of maps of America, p. 367 Available al... More

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours de Mississipi

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Amplissimae regionis Mississipi seu provinciae Ludovicianae â R.P. Lu...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Carte du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis dix lieues audessus de la No...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the lower Mississippi River from the vicinity of New Orleans to its mouth, east portion of lake Pontchartrain, and estuaries. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Map in 2 sections mounte... More

A map of Carolana and of the river Meschacebe &c

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

A plan of Fort St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Jago & of St. Philip scituat...

In lower margin: To his grace Iohn Duke of Montagu, this plan is most humbly dedicated by his graces, most dutifull & most obedient servant, Iohn Thomas. Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and waterco... More

Carte particulière du cours du fleuve St. Louis depuis le village sauv...

Shows the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans from Colapissas to English Turn, lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, location of Native American settlements, fortifications, and natural features. Pen-a... More

Partie de l'Amérique septentrionale, qui comprend le cours de l'Ohio, ...

Scale ca. 1:3,000,000. Title on verso: "Cours de l'Ohyo." Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Covers the area from the Great Lakes to South Carolina and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River. Sho... More

L'Amérique septentrionale, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:12,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Mississippi River to be the eastern boundary of Louisiana. From the author's Atlas nouveau, [1761?], v. 9, no. 34. Lowery 433 LC Maps of... More

Descripcion de la costa de Tierra Firme desde el Rio de la Empalizada ...

Scale ca. 1:3,300,000. Title on verso: Florida & Cuba, 140. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, on tracing paper. Soundings shown in fathoms. Prime meridian: Ferro. Shows Cuba, Bahama Islands, northern Yucatan Peninsula, ... More

A new map of the River Mississipi from the sea to Bayagoulas

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Embouchures du fleuve St. Louis ou Mississipi. 1763.

Scale ca. 1:13,200. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Depths shown by soundings. "Tome I. No. 44." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 776 Available al... More

Carte de la coste de la province de la Louisiane et des bouches du Mic...

Scale ca. 1:700,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Soundings shown in fathoms. Shows the coast from "Baye de l'Ascencion," Louisiana to "Baye St. Joseph," Florida. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789,... More

Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de hoofdstad van Louisiana. De uitloop ...

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Descripción de la costa de la Luciana y entrada en el Río de Micisipi ...

Scale ca. 1:1,330,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, watercolors, and pencil. Depths shown by soundings. Shows Gulf Coast from Mississippi River Delta to Apalachee Bay, Florida. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-His... More

A plan of the river Missisippi. - Public domain old map

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Map of the Mississippi River from the mouth of Yazoo River to the sout...

Scale 1:126,720; 2 English miles to an in. Manuscript; pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Imperfect: Upper right corner missing. "The latitudes of the entrance of the river Yazou, Na... More

Course of the river Mississipi, from the Balise to Fort Chartres : tak...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Five hundred pounds reward. [For the capture of the Viginia built pilo...

Positive Photostat.; Printed in French and English.; Title.; Evans 15877. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemer... More

Mississipi River, from Iberville to Yazous - Vintage map, Norman B. Le...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Carte generale des États Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale, avec les l...

Scale ca. 1:3,330,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Covers the area east of the Mississippi River from James Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. Shows states, towns and cities, forts, Indian villages and trib... More

Dédiée a Monsieur Coustard de Massi, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal et Mil...

Print shows "Le Suffren," the balloon of Anne-Pierre Coustard de Massy and R.P. Mouchet, ascending from Nantes, France. (Source: Le Temps des Ballons, www.perso.wanadoo.fr.)

Descripsión de la costa de la Luciana y entrada en el Río de Micisipi ...

Scale ca. 1:1,330,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermarks: IV; and, left half of fleur-de-lis (?). Depths shown by soundings. Annotated in ink on verso prior to mounting on cloth backing: 69. Sh... More

Descripsión de la costa de la Luciana y entrada en el Río de Micisipi ...

Scale ca. 1:1,330,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Watermarks: J. Kool; and, Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Order number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: 321214/23. Printed label describing the map mounted on v... More

Descripción de la costa de la Luciana y entrada en el Río de Micisipi ...

Scale ca. 1:1,330,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolors. Mounted on cloth backing. Printed label describing the map mounted on verso. Watermarks: IV, fleur-de-lis, and other unidentifiable watermark. Dep... More

North America from the Mississippi River to the Pacific, between the 3...

Pen-and-ink. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See also: Geographical review, vol. 1, p. 330, May 1916. LC Annual report, 1925, p. 86. See also: Wheat. Mapping the trans... More

The progress of freedom. On the 6th of April St. Louis elected a mayor...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 23.

A map of the River Mississippi and territory adjacent to N. Orleans il...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

St. Louis Mo. St. Louis, C. Witter [18--?].

Panoramic view of St. Louis from the river, with other illustrations bordering a blank center area. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full tex... More

Photograph family record, St. Louis, engraving, Library of Congress

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Gast (August) & Co.

... The following resolution passed the House of representatives on We...

Guardian of Freedom extra Frankfort November 25, 1803.; Transportation.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Print... More

[Mississippi river, with Ohio, Rock, Iowa River de Moins, Missouri, Wh...

Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink, mounted on cloth. Includes 7 "Indian boundary lines." In lower left corner in pencil: 91. On verso: Transferred from Interior Department, Office of Indian Affairs. Jan. ... More

[Map of an area from Pearl River to Bay St. Louis in Spanish West Flor...

Public domain scan of a plan, map, diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Cadastral map of a portion of Feliciana District, Spanish West Florid...

Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink. Watermarks: L Munn 1804 and fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over the letters GR. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in:... More

[Cadastral map of an area along the Mississippi River from the United ...

Shows area in West Feliciana Parish. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Watermarks: Henry Aine and shell. From the papers of Vicente Seb... More

[Four plats on the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge 1805].

Relief shown by hachures on some sheets. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente Sebastián Pinta... More

[Plan of Baton Rouge and adjoining properties on the Mississippi River...

Cadastral map. Relief shown by hachures. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Oriented with north toward the left. Watermarks: J Whatman 1803 and fleur-de-lis in a shiel... More

[Map of area from Rio Iberville to Thompson's Creek along the Mississi...

Cadastral map. Some unclaimed lots also shown. Relief shown by hachures. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink, watercolor, and pencil. Watermarks: J Whatman 1803, D & C Blauw, and letters D C B... More

Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial f...

Reproduction number: A19 (color slide) Although relationships between presidents and their vice-presidents have often been strained or at best perfunctory, the situation between Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and... More

Map of the Mississippi River from its source to the mouth of the Misso...

Plan of the mouths of the Mississipi to shew the different situations ...

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Plan of the mouth of the Mississipi to explain the direction of the th...

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 58510 462" and hand-written title of "No. 4 Missipi from Balise to Plaquemines telegraphik line" on ... More

America / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows major cities, political divisions, physical features, and areas of Indian habitation; Mississippi River as boundary between [French] Louisiana and the United States; Greenland, i... More

[View of the battle near Chalmettes plantation, Jan. 8, 1815]

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the battlefield printed above a key identifying the essential features, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. This print is the key to illustration filed under: PGA - D... More

Drawing Showing the Proposed Lighthouse at the Mouth of the Mississipp...

Records Relating to the Lighthouse at the Mississippi River, Louisiana Public domain photograph of a technical diagram, architecture, plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi.

Public domain illustrated book page scan, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new chart of the Mississippi River, the coast of west Florida, and p...

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tivoli. Le dimanche 22 aout, 1824, grand fete extraordinaire a l'occas...

Text-only broadside announcing a balloon ascension by Jean Margat, August 22, 1824, Tivoli, Paris, at a festival on the occasion of St. Louis Day. Text indicates Margat will stand on an oblong platform below a ... More

St. Louis skating rink waltz - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

LOT subdivision subject: Sports Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Published by Compton & Doan. Lithograph by Studley & Co. Date not recorded on caption card or item. Date bas... More

Manuscript map, probably made by a French voyageur, of Indian lands of...

Reproduction number: A120 (color slide); LC-MSS-39115-7 (B&W negative) This map of Wisconsin river valleys, probably made by a French voyageur, was carried by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), the author, eth... More

Georgia, from the latest authorities

Covers the southeast United States from northern Georgia south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. Shows general locations of Native American tribes. Relief shown pictorially. In lower margin... More

Map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country ...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country ...

Relief shown by hachures. Bar scale incorrect. Note in manuscript ink on paper affixed to verso: "To accompany the claim of H.R. Schoolcraft. The country coloured green lies west & north of the [Michigan superi... More

Map showing the most direct commercial route from the Atlantic via L. ...

Shows area from Washington, D.C., north to above Lake Huron and from Cape Cod to the Mississippi River. Scale [ca. 1:3,000,000]. LC Railroad maps, 73 Description derived from published bibliography. Available a... More

A map of a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Mi...

Accompanied by: Geological report of an examination made in 1834 of the elevated country between the Missouri and Red rivers / by G.W. Featherstonhaugh. Washington : Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. (97 p., [... More

Map of the harbor of St. Louis, Mississippi River, Oct. 1837

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Delta of the Mississippi : surveyed at the suggestion of the Special B...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic] with p...

Outline map showing major drainage, some relief by hachures, state boundaries, canals, and important place names. Finished and proposed railroads are indicated.

Map shewing the connection of the Baltimore and Ohio-Rail-Road with ot...

Map of the United States east of the Mississippi River. [From published bibliography] Scale ca. 1:4,900,000. LC Railroad maps, 334 Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a ras... More

Lawless burning of men by the many

Print shows a Black man named McIntosh, who had stabbed an officer that had arrested him, tied to a tree and being burned, St. Louis, Mo., April 28, 1896; and text. Illus. in: Anti-Slavery Almanac, 1840, p. 23.... More

All the West going for Matty - Public domain book illustration, Librar...

A Whig cartoon spoofing Democratic claims of Western support for Van Buren during the election of 1840. Pursued by animals from the "Alleghany Mountains" and the Mississippi River, including among others a buf... More

Map of the projected railway from Harrisburg to Pittsburg [sic], with ...

Covers area between Massachusetts and Virginia and west to the Mississippi River. Shows "finished" and "proposed" railroads. A mileage chart entitled "Rail Road Routes from Seaboard to the Interior" appears at ... More

Notice. The undersigned, having chartered the steam-boat Eagle for the...

Title.; Pinckard, P. M.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 17, Folder 5.

$500 reward!! Whereas the clerk's office of the steamboat Patrick Henr...

Reward.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 17, Folder 16.

$200 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Thursday, th...

Reward offered by Wm. Russell for apprehension of the slaves, St. Louis, 1 Oct. 1847. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI;... More

Map of the District North of Red River & North Western District, La

"July 31st, 1843." Shows the area enclosed by the Mississippi River, the Red River, and the northern border of Louisiana. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Hydrographical basin of the upper Mississippi River from astronomical ...

Map, exhibiting the railway route between Baltimore & St. Louis, toget...

Map covers area from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Va., and west to the Mississippi River. Scale 1:2,471,040. LC Railroad maps, 74 Description derived from published bibliography. Available also through the Libr... More

[Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, wit...

Author, teacher, editor of the St. Louis Leader. Alternative identification: McLoud. Scratched on back of plate: Mc-Loud. Written in ink on back of plate: 434. Identification from engraving by Capewell & Kimmel... More

Bloomington, Iowa / painted and litho. by J.C. Wild.

Print shows five men with two horses in a flatboat, a man in a rowboat, small sailboats, and steamboats, one named "Iowa Falcon", on the Mississippi River passing Muscatine, Iowa, with a view of the city showin... More

First Parochial School in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-112 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction

McKibben House, Overland, St. Louis County, MO

Survey number: HABS MO-133 Building/structure dates: 1846 Initial Construction

A new map for travelers through the United States of America showing t...

A detailed general map of the eastern half of the United States, framed in decorative borders, with most of the details east of the Mississippi River. Indicates drainage, state boundaries and shows many cities... More

$200 reward. Ranaway from the subscriber on the night of Thursday, the...

Map and view of St. Louis, Mo. - Public domain old map

Includes illus. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 438 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651/1; 651/2

Republican extra--- St. Louis, March 5, 5. P. M. President Taylor's in...

0675 E 7 D 45.; $15.00.; On verso: 06755, .7245. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More

A map illustrative of the route of the proposed railroad : from St. Lo...

"The red line indicates the route of the Railroad. The green line is the route followed by Col. Fremont from the South Pass to Humboldt River."

Burlesque political sermon! written by a gentleman of St. Louis, expre...

explorer of upper Mississippi River from "A Popular History of the Uni...

This image has been taken from scan 000583 from volume 02 of "A Popular History of the United States from the first discovery of the western hemisphere ... to the end of the first century of the union of the St... More

Map showing the position of Chicago in connection with the North West ...

Map of the north-central United States, east of the Mississippi River, showing the railroad network. Scale ca. 1:2,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 115 Description derived from published bibliography. Inset: Illinois... More

Gunpowder for sale here / Oliver J. Stuart, N.Y.

Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices [at] 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." sh... More

St. Louis in 1832. From an original painting by George Catlin in posse...

Print shows a side paddle wheel steamer named the "St. Louis" headed up the Mississippi River under steam, with a view of the Saint Louis waterfront in the background. Based on an original oil painting by Geor... More

Sketch illustrating the positions of the commercial cities and towns o...

Shows the United States between Maine and Virginia, west ot the Mississippi River. Indicates railroads and canals. Scale 1:3,706,560. LC Railroad maps, 78 Description derived from published bibliography. Availa... More

A new map of the western rivers, or, Travellers guide : exhibiting the...

America Transformed: This map, designed for travelers, compressed the Mississippi River and its major tributaries—the Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri—onto one compact sheet, providing a succinct guide to towns and... More

Skeleton map of rail-roads between Cape Canso and St. Louis,

A new map of the United States. Upon which are delineated its vast wor...

Detailed general map of the eastern half of the United States indicating drainage, state boundaries, state and county capitals, cities and towns, common roads, the "Oregon Route," canals, and railroads. One of... More

Map of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad exhibiting the principal tributary ...

Map showing Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and part of Texas. Shows drainage, cities and towns, and state boundaries, west of the Mississippi River. The adjoining area east of the Mississippi River shows only t... More