State of Louisiana manhattan An interesting and uncommon instance

An interesting and uncommon instance of the new style of shaded relief that was capturing imaginations at the time

An incredible gem for showing detail in the mountains

The image size is approximately 16 x 19

next to a large section of land noted as "Donation Lands from the Commonwealth of Virginia"

Each county and town are shown with the connecting roads

State of Louisiana manhattan An interesting and uncommon instanceState of Louisiana, GLO, 1879 Early in the 19th century the U. S. founded an agency to manage the surveying, platting and sale of the public lands in the western U. S. If you think back to the massive growth and acquisitions throughout the 19th century, it was an astounding challenge to manage. Spanning from Florida and the deep south, all the way west through the trans Mississippi lands, to the West Coast, it was hundreds of millions of acres.