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  • The Sources of the Mississippi [microform]: comprising 1. Letter from Messrs. Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company. 2. Report of Hopewell Clarke, chief of the I. B. T. & Co. Expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi, October, 1886.

    • Text
    • New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., [1886]
    • 1886-1886
  • The Mississippi, America's mainstream.

    • Text
    • New York, McGraw-Hill [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV 72-1560Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Narrative of a journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90.

    • Text
    • [New York] Arno Press [1971]
    • 1971-1888
    • 1 Item
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    Text IID 72-2272Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Hatchie, the guardian slave; or, The heiress of Bellevue, by Warren T. Ashton.

    • Text
    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1972 [c1852]
    • 1972-1852
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc Fic (Ashton, W. Hatchie)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mississippi River-Gulf outlet and the Mobile to New Orleans intracoastal waterway. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session, on H. R. 5218, a bill for the improvement of the Mississippi River-Gulf outlet and the Mobile to New Orleans intracoastal waterway. September 18, 1951.

    • Text
    • Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951.
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 72-2472Offsite
  • Rebel victory at Vicksburg.

    • Text
    • [Vicksburg, Miss.] Vicksburg Centennial Commemoration Commission [1963]
    • 1963
    • 2 Items
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    Text IKE (Bearss, E. C. Rebel victory at Vicksburg)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text Sc 973.734-B (Bearss, E. Rebel victory at Vicksburg)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Look down that winding river, an informal profile of the Mississippi. With a foreword by John K. Hutchens. Illus. by Alice Caddy.

    • Text
    • New York, Taplinger Pub. Co. [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 74-189Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • My life on the Mississippi; or, Why I am not Mark Twain, by Richard Bissell.

    • Text
    • Boston, Little, Brown [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 74-4943Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mark Twain's Mississippi; a pictorial history of America's greatest river, by T. H. Watkins. Also selected excerpts from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi.

    • Text
    • Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IV 74-1836Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Seth Eastman's Mississippi; a lost portfolio recovered.

    • Text
    • Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text MCX E13.M1sSASB - Art & Architecture Rm 300

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  • The man with the red umbrella: Giacomo Costantino Beltrami in America, by Augusto P. Miceli.

    • Text
    • Baton Rouge, La., Claitor's Pub. Division [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 75-5816Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • I am the Mississippi / L. G. Sorden, E. Louise Miller.

    • Text
    • Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin House, [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 75-3351Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Forty years a gambler on the Mississippi. 2d ed. New York, G. H. Devol, 1892 [c1887]

    • Text
    • New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. [1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-18 9574Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Les eaux porteuses : la découverte du Mississippi par Louis Jolliet et Jacques Marquette / Anne-Marie de Moret ; dessins de Rodney M. Winfield.

    • Text
    • Sherbrooke, Qué. : Naaman ; New York : diffusion, French & European Publications, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 77-299Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A history of the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers / by Roald Tweet.

    • Text
    • Rock Island, Ill. : U. S. Army Engineer District, Rock Island ; Washington : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFF 77-439Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Mississippi River before and after Mark Twain / Gerald M. Capers.

    • Text
    • Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press, c1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 78-1343Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Alton Locks and Dam : a review of the evidence / [prepared by Craig Roach].

    • Text
    • Washington : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 79-33Offsite
  • Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain. With more than 300 illus.

    • Text
    • Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1883.
    • 1883
    • 3 Items
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    Text *KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue))Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text 8-*KL (Clemens, S. L. Life on the Mississippi. 1883 (1st ed., 1st issue))Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    Text Arents S 1375Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Relation of the discovery of the Mississippi River / written from the Narrative of Nicolas de La Salle, otherwise known as the little M. de La Salle; the translation done by Melville B. Anderson.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Caxton Club, 1898.
    • 1898
    • 1 Item
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    Text Arents S 1579Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • A journal of travels into the Arkansas Territory during the year 1819 / by Thomas Nuttall ; edited by Savoie Lottinville. 1st ed.

    • Text
    • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text IW 81-391Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Transportation on the Mississippi River System / Railroad Committee for the Study of Transportation, Subcommittee on Water Transportation; Alexander Gawlis: research analyst.

    • Text
    • [Washington]: The Subcommittee, 1945.
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLF 81-456Offsite
  • Mr. Roosevelt's steamboat / by Mary Helen Dohan.

    • Text
    • New York : Dodd, Mead, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 82-862Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The keelboat age on western waters / Leland D. Baldwin.

    • Text
    • Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLD 82-205Offsite
  • Mighty Mississippi : biography of a river / Marquis W. Childs ; foreward by Geoffrey C. Ward.

    • Text
    • New Haven : Ticknor & Fields, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV 82-1196Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Old Glory, an American voyage / Jonathan Raban.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 82-76Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Maps of the Mississippi River : [exhibit, displayed from November 1, 1973, through January 31, 1974 ... exhibit hall and reading room of the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress ... Alexandria, Virginia / prepared by Richard W. Stephenson, Andrew M. Modelski, and John R. Hébert].

    • Text
    • [Alexandria, Va.] : The Division, [1973?]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-Map Div. GA405 .L5 1974Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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  • Mark Twain and "Life on the Mississippi" / Horst H. Kruse.

    • Text
    • Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 83-1587Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mississippi River hydrographic survey, 1973-1975 : Black Hawk, La. to head of Passes, La. : and South and Southwest Passes and Pass a Loutre / prepared under the direction of the president, Mississippi River Commission by the U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans.

    • Text
    • New Orleans, La. : The District, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text Map Div. 89-14Offsite
  • Mississippi River hydrographic survey, 1973-1975 : mouth of White River, Ark. to Black Hawk, La., mile 320 to mile 595 A. H. P. / prepared under the direction of the President, Mississippi River Commission by the U. S. Army Engineer District, Vicksburg.

    • Text
    • Vicksburg : The District, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 85-918Offsite
  • Upper Mississippi River navigation charts.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Ill. : U.S. Army Engineer Division, North Central, Corps of Engineers, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Map Div. 83-769Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • The father of waters : a Mississippi River chronicle / text by Norah Deakin Davis ; photographs by Joseph Holmes.

    • Text
    • San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV+ 82-2041Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Mississippi / [Fotos von] Fred Mayer ; Texte von McFadden Duffy ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • Zürich : Atlantis, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IT+ 84-1350Offsite
  • Le roman du Mississippi / Bernard Pierre.

    • Text
    • Paris : Plon, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IT 84-2583Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Resources inventory for the Upper Mississippi River (Guttenberg, Iowa to Saverton, Missouri) / compiled by Gail A. Peterson.

    • Text
    • Rock Island, Ill. : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text Map Div. 84-1064Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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  • [The father of waters / music by Charles Wakefield Cadman ; words by Nelle Richmond Eberhart].

    • Notated music
    • [1928?]
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
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    Notated music JPB 83-53 Box 3Offsite

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  • The Corps, the environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin / by Raymond H. Merritt.

    • Text
    • Washington : Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers ; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLD 85-779Offsite
  • The Ports of Natchez, Vicksburg, & Greenville, Ms. and ports on lower Mississippi River : miles 255 to 620 A.H.P. / prepared by the Water Resources Support Center.

    • Text
    • Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O. ; Fort Belvoir, Va. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers : For sale by Water Resources Support Center, [1982]
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 84-832Offsite
  • Up on the river / by John Madson.

    • Text
    • New York : Schocken Books, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSE 85-1034Offsite
  • The northern expeditions of Stephen H. Long : the journals of 1817 and 1823 and related documents / edited by Lucile M. Kane, June D. Holmquist, and Carolyn Gilman.

    • Text
    • St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text IV 85-3145Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Maps of the alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River and tributaries / U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers.

    • Cartographic
    • Vicksburg, Miss. : Mississippi River Commission, Corps of Engineers, 1984-
    • 1984-present
    • 1 Item
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    Cartographic Map Div. 85-3015 [Interfiled with U.S.G.S. 1:250,000 topos]Schwarzman Building - Map Division Desk Room 117

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  • Explorers of the Mississippi / Timothy Severin.

    • Text
    • New York : Knopf, 1968, c1967.
    • 1968-1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text IT 87-2962Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Captain Glazier and his lake [microform] ; an inquiry into the history and progress of exploration at the head-waters of the Mississippi since the discovery of Lake Itasca.

    • Text
    • New York, Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Company [1886]
    • 1886
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z-4231 no. 1-9Offsite
  • The Port of New Orleans, Louisiana : mile 81 A.H.P. to mile 115 A.H.P., Mississippi River / prepared by the Water Resources Support Center ; U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers.

    • Text
    • Fort Belvoir, Va. : The Corps : For sale by The Center, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 85-421Offsite
  • America, its geographical history 1492-1892 [microform]; six lectures delivered to graduate students of the Johns Hopkins university; with a supplement entitled Was the Rio del Espiritu Santo of the Spanish geographers the Mississippi? By Walker B. Scaife ...

    • Text
    • Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1892.
    • 1892
    • 2 Items

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081950853
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SB (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science. Extra Vol. no. 13)Offsite
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    Text *Z-4216 no. 1-4Offsite
  • A century on the Mississippi : a history of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1876-1981 / by Floyd M. Clay.

    • Text
    • [Memphis, Tenn.?] : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JSF 86-1037Offsite
  • Itasca, source of America's greatest river : published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the source of the Mississippi River / by Steve Hall.

    • Text
    • St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text IVM (Itasca) 87-1127Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Paddle wheels and pistols [microform], by Irvin Anthony ... illustrated and decorated by Manning DeV. Lee and Lyle Justis.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia, Macrae Smith Company [c1929]
    • 1978-1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Z-4148 no. 1-8Offsite
  • The Mississippi steamboat era in historic photographs : Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920 / Joan W. Gandy and Thomas H. Gandy.

    • Text
    • New York : Dover Publications, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ITOM+ (Natchez Region) 89-2162Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Historic names and places on the lower Mississippi River / by Marion Bragg.

    • Text
    • Vicksburg : Mississippi River Commission, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Text IXZ 90-5696Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Mississippi valley magazine [microform].

    • Text
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, Mississippi Valley Pub. Co.
    • 1919-1932
    • 2 Items
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    Text *ZAN-T2639 v. 1-5 (June 1919-Feb. 1920-Dec. 1923)Offsite
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    Text *ZAN-T2639 v. 6-14 (1924-Jan. 1932)Offsite

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