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Photographer: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
Caption: Map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana
Additional Description: Relief shown pictorially. Shows the present-day Sabine and DeSoto Parishes in eastern region of the Sabine River, Louisiana. Names of places and features in Spanish. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Title derived from The Luso-Hispanic world in maps, 1999. Mounted on cloth backing. This Spanish map of the site of Las Ormigas land grand later known as the Arroyo Hondo grand includes streams, vegetation ... At time of map, this was an area of dispute between the United States and Spain. Copy annotated in pencil on verso: "Los Ormigas grant" corrected to "Arroyo Hondo grant" in letter of Mr. Witbeck's. July 2, 1927 and May 31, 1927.
Submitted: July 11, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p388827
File Size: 6.090 Megabytes

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