Texas State Archives Map Collection
Plano Geografyco de la Prouyncya de Texas
| Date: | 1807 |
| Publisher: | -- None Listed -- |
| Cartographer: |
Calleja, Felyx, 1807 |
| Scale: | none given |
| Size: | 20 cm x 25 cm |
| Type of Map: | general |
| Format: | black & white, photograph |
| Language: | Spanish |
| AC Number: | 02752 |
| Photo Media: | b&w photograph, photo no. 1982/226-1 |
Plano Geografyco de la Prouyncya de Texas Image:
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Description:
[Title translation:] Geographic Map of the Province of Texas
Covers Texas and part of the Louisiana Territory. It features rivers, and also shows presidios, forts, armies and detachments, missions, roads, and Spanish and Anglo settlements. It also shows soundings along the Gulf Coast, which are presumably given in fathoms. In the upper left corner of the map is a drawing of the shield of Spain centered between two columns, with flags, a fortress, and a war machine also shown. This map is in Spanish.
Long 284 - 277 deg., from Tenerife
This is a black and white photograph in the Archives' Photograph Collection, no. 1982/226-1. The original map is in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid, Espana, Seccion de Estado, Mapas, Planos, y Dibujos, no. 228. Size of the original is 52 cm x 42 cm.
3/9/82
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