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Anthony Finley: Louisiana   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anthony Finley  (1790–1840)  wikidata:Q18507773
 
Description American cartographer
Date of birth/death 1790 Edit this at Wikidata 1840 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q18507773
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Louisiana
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English: A beautiful example of Finley's important 1827 map of Louisiana. Shows early county configuration. Depicts the state with moderate detail in Finley's classic minimalist style. Shows river ways, roads, canals, and some topographical features. Offers color coding at the county level. Various American Indian villages noted throughout the state but particularly in the western part. Southwest Pass, in the Mississippi River Delta, is mislabeled Northwest Pass. Identifies Natchitoches, Louisiana, and its sister city Narogdoches, Texas. Title and scale in upper right quadrant. Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas .
Date 1827 (undated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 11.5 in (29.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,11.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Louisiana-finley-1827
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Finley, Anthony, A New General Altas, Comprising a Complete Set of Maps, representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe, Together with the several Empires, Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities, and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries, Philadelphia, 1827.

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