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Subject: Re: Historic Ward Maps 1800's LA and/or MS
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:49:34 -0400
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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In response to Arlyn Booth's recent suggestion, LC holds two 19th century maps of Concordia Parish (1841 and 1860) but neither show ward boundaries. The earliest coverage we have of Adams County, MS postdates your period. (All three maps show township and range info)
Additionally, our collections do not typically contain ward maps for "smaller" cities such as Vidalia, LA or Natchez, MS between 1840 and 1880. 19th century ward or district boundaries are sometimes shown in county landownership atlases but, regrettably, your counties are not reflected in our 19th century collections.
Feel free to contact me off list for more information.
Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
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Subject: RE: Historic Ward Maps 1800's LA and/or MS
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:13:16 -0500
From: Booth, Arlyn <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
The Library of Congress published a set of city wards maps to 1900 as a microfiche collection. But it's by city. There's was a bibliography first and then they fiched the maps in the bibliography, like they have with other collections, such as the plat books/maps.
Ward Maps of United States Cities, published in 1975. The only city for Illinois in the collection is Chicago and the only city of Louisiana is New Orleans and nothing for Mississippi. However, it says it's a selective bibliography so maybe LC has more maps for smaller cities.
Arlyn Booth
Map Coordinator
Illinois State Library
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Jesse White, Secretary of State & State Librarian
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Subject: Historic Ward Maps 1800's LA and/or MS
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Subject: Historic Ward Maps 1800's LA and/or MS
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:55:06 -0400
From: Kevin Heard <[log in to unmask]>
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Greetings,
We have been gathering information from the 1850-1880 Population and
Agricultural Census' on Microfilm. Depending on the Census year the data
is broken down geographically by County/Parish, Ward, and Parcel. We are
having trouble finding maps or descriptions that detail Ward boundaries.
We have located sources for County/Parish and Parcel boundaries during
those time periods. Does anyone know of any sources of archival
information or maps for Wards? We are specifically looking at Concordia
Parish, LA and Adams County, MS. Inquires at the US Census and National
Archives have come up empty. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Heard
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