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["The Hustler" arriving in Shreveport, Louisana]

Description: Known in the Pelican State as the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway's "The Hustler," train No. 4-203, northbound, arriving in Shreveport, Louisiana from New Orleans on an April morning in 1939. The small Pacific, type 4-6-2 locomotive, which heads this passenger train, carries the train's name etched on a metal plate attached to the boiler front, positioned below the headlight. These overnight trains - operating between New Orleans and Shreveport were popular over a long span of years, making t… more
Date: April 1939
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

County map of the states of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century railroads, counties, cities, towns, military posts, swamps, lakes and rivers in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and for Florida on verso. Relief shown by hachures. Scales Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000], Scale [ca. 1:26,700], and Scale [ca. 1:5,600,000].
Date: 1879
Creator: Gamble, W. H. (William H.)
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Sketch of the Gulf of Mexico showing lines of deep sea soundings and profiles of bottom.

Description: Map shows islands and bays along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from just south of the Rio Grande to the tip of Florida, Key West, and the Dry Tortugas; temperature readings east and south of the Mississippi River delta on inset map. Insets: [fifteen profiles of sections of seabottom for the Gulf of Mexico along lines shown on the main map]. Depths shown by soundings and by profile. Scale [ca. 1:2,400,000].
Date: 1855
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century railroads, counties, cities, towns, military posts, swamps, lakes and rivers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,670,000].
Date: 1883
Creator: Fisk & Co.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

General topographical map: Sheet XXII.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century coastline and inland watershed in Texas from Austin and Georgetown in the northwest and Goliad and the San Antonio River in the Southwest to the coast; Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Sabine Lake and Lake Calcasieu; roads, railroads, cities, towns, post offices, ferries, mining activity, and marshlands in Texas and for southwestern Louisiana. Includes notes on vegetation and topography. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:633,600].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Approaches to New Orleans.

Description: Map shows union and confederate fortifications in the New Orleans area; swamps, roads, canals, and railroads; layout of the city of New Orleans; residents and landowners along some roads. Includes list of authorities. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:75,100].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map Port Hudson, La. and vicinity.

Description: Map shows union and confederate fortifications in the area of Port Hudson, Louisiana; marshes, roads, and railroads. Includes list of batteries with artillery specifications. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:15,245].
Date: [1891..1895]
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map to illustrate the Civil War.

Description: Map shows state boundaries, military posts, major cities, and notable physical features. Inset: "North Eastern Virginia." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:9,216,000].
Date: 1885
Creator: A. S. Barnes & Co.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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