1967 (dated)
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This is an attractive 1967, special edition, Joseph Anthony Aiena re-envisioning of the famous Persac Map or Norman Map , illustrating the plantations on the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Natchez. The map is divided into two sections. The left section covers from Natchez to Baton Rouge, and the right section from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Along the way, plantation estates are illustrated and color-coded with the owners duly named. The properties are universally long and thin, assuring all-important river access to all. The map is surrounded by a decorative cotton-themed border.
The Norman / Persac MapOriginally published in 1858, the Norman / Persac Map was drawn by the French landscape painter and real-estate artist Marie Adrien Persac (1823 - 1873). Persac issued the map in partnership with the Benjamin Moore Norman (1809 - 1860). The map is an outgrowth of Persac s travels up and down the Mississippi s
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