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title: Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters
Subject: Steamboat disasters, Steam-navigation, Mississippi River Valley, Railroads, United States, History, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, Mississippi River, Description and travel, Ohio River, Description and travel
Date created ms: 1864
Abstract: In 1856 Lloyd's Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters details more than a hundred steamboat disasters, including explosions, collisions, sinkings, and capsizes. The illustration showing the explosion of the steamship Louisiana docked in New Orleans is shown.

title: Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud'oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy
Subject: Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley, Louisiana, Description and travel, Mississippi River, Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley, History, To 1803
Date created ms: 1864
Abstract: Louis Hennepin, a Recollet Friar (member of an order of reformed Franciscans), arrived in New France in 1675. After spending four years as an itinerant missionary, Hennepin joined an expedition of the great French explorer Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle, intent on probing the Mississippi. Hennepin and two companions ventured up the Mississippi as far as the Falls of St. Anthony (the site of Minneapolis), and returned to the Great Lakes by an alternate route. In 1683, Hennepin published an account of his adventures, Description de la Louisiane. An immediate best-seller, the book went through numerous editions and was one of the most widely read first-hand descriptions of New France. The map that accompanies the volume, entitled "Carte de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane Nouvellement découverte," makes it the first cartographic appearance of Louisiana as a place-name.

title: Le Commerce que les Indiens du Mexique font avec les Francois au Port de Mississippi
Subject: France, Colonies, North America, Mississippi River Valley, History, To 1803, Indians of North America, Pictorial works, Watercolors, Clothing & dress, Louisiana, Economic conditions, French, Mississippi River Valley, Sailing ships, Engravings
Date created ms: 1720
Abstract: French scene of trade between Frenchmen and Indians at the mouth of the Mississippi River; this engraving was distributed by agents of John Law to promote investment in the Company of the West and emigration to the Louisiana Colony.

title: Multum in parvo : respectfully dedicated by the authors to the people of the Mississippi Valley : the all-levee fallacy exposed : outlets in combination with levees the only hope of the rich Mississippi Valley : addresses of Dr. G. H. Tichenor, Captain T. P. Leathers and Governor Fishback of Arkansas on this all-important question
Subject: Levees, Mississippi River, Floods, Mississippi River Valley, Flood control, Mississippi River Valley
Date Issued: 1893

title: Possession of Louisiana by the French, considered, as it affects the interests of those nations more immediately concerned, viz. Great Britian, America, Spain, and Portugal
Subject: Louisiana, History, To 1803, French, Mississippi River Valley, Mississippi River Valley, History, To 1803, France, Colonies, North America, France, Foreign relations, 1789-1815, Great Britain, Foreign relations, France, Spain, Foreign relations, France, Portugal, Foreign relations, France, United States, Foreign relations, France, France, Colonies, North America, Louisiana, History, 1803-1865, Louisiana Purchase
Date created ms: 1803
Abstract: Description of the political atmosphere surrounding the Louisiana Purchase in relation to France, Great Britain, The United States, Spain, and Portugal.

title: Map of Louisiana and a part of Arkansas: showing location & limits of levee districts, United States & local, also location & extent of present maintaining lines of levees with tabulated statement giving number of miles of levee line on each stream & in each district to date
Subject: Levee districts, Louisiana, Maps, Levee districts, Arkansas, Maps, Levee districts, Mississippi River Valley, Maps, Levees, Louisiana, Maps, Levees, Arkansas, Maps, Levees, Mississippi River Valley, Maps
Date Issued: 1919

title: Joseph Emile Dupont Jr. oral history interview
Subject: World War, 1939-1945, Atrocities, Philippines, Personal narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945, Campaigns, Philippines, Personal narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945, Philippines, Prisoners and prisons, Japanese, Personal narratives, American, World War, 1939-1945, Veterans, Louisiana, Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942, Personal narratives, American, Palawan Massacre, Philippines, 1944, Ex-prisoners of war, Rehabilitation, United States, Depressions, 1929, Louisiana, Floods, Mississippi River Valley, River life, Louisiana, Plaquemine
Date created ms: 2001, 2002
Abstract: Session I concerns Dupont's early life; his inspiration for joining the Marine Corps; boot camp in San Diego; and his passage through Hawaii, Guam, Midway Island, and Manila. He talks at length about being stationed in Shanghai in 1941. The interview ends with the Japanese attack on Manila, where he was in a hospital, on December 9, 1941.; Session II deals with the period between December 1941 and May 1942, during which time Dupont served on Corregidor in the Philippines. He describes details of life there while under siege by the Japanese, the fighting on Bataan and Corregidor, and his eventually being forced to surrender.; In Sessions III & IV, Dupont describes conditions in several prison camps in the Philippines, including Bilibid Prison in Manila, the hospital at Bilibid Prison, and prison camps in Cabanatuan and Palawan Island. He recounts details of hard labor including building an airfield in the jungle on Palawan Island, lack of food and clothing, poor shelter, diseases, maltreatment by guards, and encounters with wild animals. He describes the Battle of Manila, his subsequent liberation from Bilibid Prison, readjusting to life after his freedom, and his homecoming to Louisiana. He also discusses the "hell ships," Japanese ships carrying American prisoners of war that were sunk unknowingly by American submarines, and the massacre of American POWs on Palawan Island on December 14, 1944.; Session V concerns the postwar rehabilitation of Dupont and his close friends, all of whom had war-related disabilities. He describes his homecoming, meeting and marrying his wife, creating a life as a visually impaired veteran, and his work for the Department of Veterans Affairs.; In Session VI, Dupont tells of his childhood in Plaquemine in the 1920s and 1930s, the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his family background, life along the river, the Depression, his schooling, activities of teenagers, and joining the Marines., http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/oralhistory/abstracts/military/Dupont_Joseph_T2037-2042.abs.pdf

title: Memorial of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans, praying that an alteration may be made in the law of last sessions, respecting the titles to lands: and for a further encouragement to the culture of sugar.
Subject: United States. Act for Ascertaining and Adjusting the Titles and Claims to Land Within the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana, Land titles, Louisiana, Sugar growing, Louisiana, Land titles, Mississippi River Valley
Date created ms: 1806
Abstract: Memorial of the House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans praying that an alteration may be made in the law of last session, respecting the titles to lands: and for a further encouragement to the culture of sugar. "December 31, 1805. Read and referred to Mr. Anderson...[et al.]"

title: Histoire de la Louisiane, Contenant la decouverte de ce vaste Pays;...[v. 1-3]
Subject: Louisiana, History, To 1803, Louisiana, Description and travel, Natural history, Louisiana, Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley, France, Colonies, America
Date created ms: 1758
Abstract: Histoire de la Louisiane, contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays; sa description géographique; un voyage dans les terres; l'histoire naturelle, les moeurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines; deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau Mexique, dont un jusqu'à la mer du Sud; ornée de deux cartes & de 40 planches en taille douce. Par m. Le Page du Pratz. 3 vols.

title: Vue de la colonie espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane el Floride Occidentale, en L'année 1802
Subject: Louisiana, Description and travel, To 1803, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, To 1803, West Florida, Description and travel, To 1803
Date created ms: 1803
Abstract: Vue de la colonie espagnole du Mississipi, ou des provinces de Louisiane el Floride Occidentale, en L'année 1802, par un observateur résident sur les lieux. Ouvrage accompagné de deux cartes dressées avec soin, et artistement gravées et enluminées. Contents: Table des chapitres -- Carte detaillee de la basse-Louisiane et Floride occidentale -- Avant-propos, dependance, position, et etendue de la colonie -- Fleuve du Mississipi, et ses rapports avec la colonie, qu'il traverse et partage -- Etablissemens sur les bords du Fleuve, dans la partie inferieure de la colonie, et description de la Nouvell-Orleans -- Suite des etablissemens sur les bords du Fleuve, et dans la partie inferieure de la colonie -- Etablissemens separes des bords du Mississipi, dans la partie inferieure et interne de la colonie -- Etablissemens de la partie superieure de la colonie, ou haute-Louisiane, sur les rives du Mississipi -- Carte reduite de la haute-Louisiane et pays circonvoisins -- Etablissemens de la parti inferieure de la colon ie, sur les bords du Golfe du Mexique -- Nature et qualities du sol, sur les bords due Mississipi -- Climat et temperature du pays dans la partie infericure de la colonie -- Influence du climate et de la constitution naturelle du pays, sur le corps humain -- Productions du pays, dans les trios regnes de la nature. Celles du regne animal -- Suite de chapitre precedent -- Cultures et productions colonials. Quantite des habitations formees sur les bords du fleuve, et leurs cultures principales -- Culture de la canne a sucre, et ses produits -- Coton, indigo, tabac, pelleteries, riz, bois de charpente, etc. -- Avantages et desavantages inherens aux plantations formees sur les bords au fleuve -- Commerce du pays, et ses resultats -- Population des parties inferieures et superieures de la colonie -- Gouvernement -- Administration domaniale, fiscale, et commerciale -- Culte public -- Ordre judiciaire -- Police generale et particuliere -- Moeurs et usages. Observations sur les hommes qui habitent cette contree -- Continuation du chapitre precedent. Observations sur les Creoles blancs -- Continuation du chapitre precedent -- Suite du chapitre precedent. Opposition de la conduite des Americains et de celle des Louisianais envers les Colons de St. Domingue, refugies parmi eux -- Observations sur les Creoles blanches -- Observations sur les etrangers blancs -- Observations sur les Affranchis -- Observations sur les Negres esclaves -- Continuation du chapitre precedent -- Observations particulieres sur les moeurs et usages du pays -- Continuation du chapitre precedent -- Precis de l'ouvrage, et conclusion -- Table Abregee des matieres, par supplement a celle des chapitres

title: Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a trip...
Subject: Ohio River Valley, Description and travel, Pennsylvania, Description and travel, Ohio, Description and travel, Kentucky, Description and travel, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, Baton Rouge (La.), Description and travel, New Orleans (La.), Description and travel, Louisiana, Description and travel
Date created ms: 1810
Abstract: Sketches of a tour to the western country, through the states of Ohio and Kentucky; a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a trip through the Mississippi territory, and part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809. By F. Cuming. With notes and an appendix, containing some interesting facts, together with a notice of an expedition through Louisiana.

title: Representation and petition of the representatives elected by the freemen of the territory of Louisiana.
Subject: Missouri, Politics and government, To 1865, Louisiana Purchase, Mississippi River Valley, History, United States. Congress (8th, 2nd session: 1804-1805). House, Louisiana, History, 1803-1865
Date created ms: 1805-01-04
Abstract: Referred to Messrs. Eppes, Lucas, Clagett, Huger, Eustis, Fowler, and Bryan.

title: Views of Louisiana; Together With A Journal Of A Voyage Up The Missouri River, In 1811
Subject: Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana, Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River, Discovery and exploration, Missouri River, Discovery and exploration, West (U. S.), Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley
Date created ms: 1814
Abstract: Views of Louisiana. Together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811, by H. M. Brackenridge, Esq.

title: Voyage dans les deux Louisianes
Subject: Louisiana, Description and travel, To 1803, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, To 1803, Ohio River Valley, Description and travel, To 1803, Indians of North America
Date created ms: 1805
Abstract: Voyage dans les deux Louisianes, et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les États-Unis, l'Ohio et les provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803; avec un apperçu des moeurs, des usages, du caractère et des coutumes religieuses et civiles des peuples de ces diverses contrées.

title: Journal of Andrew Ellicott
Subject: Southern boundary of the United States, Geographical positions, Southern States, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, Florida, Southern States, Description and travel, Southern States, Florida, Description and travel
Date created ms: 1803
Abstract: vii, 299, 151 p. fold. illus., fold. maps. 26 cm.

title: history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina. v. 1 & 2
Subject: Louisiana, History, To 1803, Louisiana, Description and travel, Natural history, Louisiana, Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley
Date created ms: 1763
Abstract: History of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina: containing a description of the countries that lie on both sides of the River Mississippi: with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, and products. Translated from the French, by M. Le Page Du Pratz; with some notes and observations relating to our colonies. In two volumes.

title: History of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina...
Subject: Louisiana, History, To 1803, Louisiana, Description and travel, Natural history, Louisiana, Indians of North America, Mississippi River Valley
Date created ms: 1774
Abstract: The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina: containing a description of the countries that lie on both sides of the River Missisippi [sic]: with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, and products. Translated from the French of M. Le Page du Pratz; with some notes and observations relating to our colonies. A new ed.

title: Charte von der Mundung des Mississipi [sic]
Subject: Engravings, Mississippi River Valley, Maps, Louisiana, Maps, Florida, Maps
Date created ms: 1803
Abstract: View of mouth of the Mississippi River and Southeast Louisiana and surrounding areas, including those areas identified as "West-Florida, Luisiana, Meerbusen von Mexico, See Pontchartrain, Neu Orleans, Mobile, Bay von Mobile."

title: Taking possession of Louisiana and the River Mississippi, in the name of Louis XIVth, by Cavalier De La Salle
Subject: France, Colonies, North America, La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687, Pictorial works, Mississippi River Valley, History, To 1803, Explorers, Mississippi River, Explorers, France, Indians of North America, Pictorial works, Lithographs, Color, Clothing & dress
Date created ms: 1860
Abstract: Image of La Salle gesturing to a group of Native Americans. The lithographer is Bocquin and the printer is Lemercier.

title: Louisiana. Copy of a letter from an Officer of the Army of the United States, to his Correspondent in this town
Subject: United States, Description and travel, 1783-1848, Mississippi River Valley, Description and travel, Boston (Mass.), Newspapers, Louisiana Purchase, Newspapers
Date created ms: 1803-12-30
Abstract: Extract from New-England Palladium, vol. 22, no. 52. The letter from a US Army officer describes the Upper region of the Louisiana Purchase territory: its geography, population, climate, plants, and animals.

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