Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "7h14b0450",
    "label": "Map of the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River from the head of St. Francis Basin to the Gulf of Mexico, showing lands subject to overflow, location of levees and trans-alluvial profiles",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "map",
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h14b0450"
}

{
    "id": "7h14b0450",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h14b0450",
    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Map of the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River from the head of St. Francis Basin to the Gulf of Mexico, showing lands subject to overflow, location of levees and trans-alluvial profiles",
    "description": "Relief shown by hachures.",
    "date": "[\"1899\"]",
    "year": 1899,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7h14b0450",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_008642",
    "creators": [
        "United States. Mississippi River Commission"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "River surveys--Mississippi River--Alluvial plain--Maps",
        "Mississippi River--Alluvial plain--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Mississippi River",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Cartographic"
    ],
    "country": "United States",
    "iiifBase": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3A7h14b0468",
    "iiifManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7h14b0450/manifest",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:7h14b0468/image_thumbnail_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3A7h14b0468/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "[Washington, D.C.?]",
    "publisher": "Mississippi River Commission"
}

{
    "url": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7h14b0450",
    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
    "collectionArkId": "41688024w",
    "schema:latitude": 47.2333,
    "schema:longitude": -95.2,
    "extent": "1 map on 8 sheets : col. ; 297 x 110 cm., sheets 82 x 62 cm. or smaller.",
    "notes": [
        "Relief shown by hachures.",
        "Includes table of areas of overflow."
    ],
    "hasTranscription": false,
    "dcId": "7h14b0450",
    "type": "map"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3A7h14b0468/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "mediaId": "78c2aa90a394b6ed"
}