Veüe du port de Louis-Bourg dans l'Isle Royalle. [1716]

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Veüe du port de Louis-Bourg dans l'Isle Royalle. [1716]

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View of Louisbourg detailing its buildings, fortifications, and fishing industry; keyed to references A-I and L-N in bottom margin. Includes drawings of many boats and ships. Accompanied on adjacent sheet by a map: Plan du haure ou port de Louis-Bourg (Ayer MS map 30, sheet 94). See brief descriptions by David Buisseret in Mapping the French Empire in North America (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1991) plate 18, p. [38]-39 and "A Cartographer's view of the French empire in the early 18th century: the collection called Cartes Marines at the Newberry Library" in Proceedings of the Eighth annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, 1982 (1985) p. 11 and plate 3.

1 ms. view : hand col. ; 415 x 733 mm., on sheet 561 x 750 mm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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