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"Meandering Mississippi River #14" art print.
Size: 18" x 24" (ships in a sturdy reusable tube)
In 1944, Harold Fisk (1908–1964) published a geological investigation of the lower Mississippi Valley at the request of the Mississippi River Commission.
Included in his exhaustive account was a series of maps that illustrated the many historical courses the river has traveled on its way from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.
Fisk, a geology professor at LSU, artfully chose to document these meanderings by color coding each path, resulting in a series of maps that showcases just how wild the Mississippi River once was.
This map documents the Mississippi River as it travels from Pointe Coupee Parish through West and East Baton Rouge parishes. Points of interest include the Morganza Floodway, Atchafalaya River, Lake Fausse and Tunica Bend.
We digitally restored the map to what we think the original colors may have looked like. The map was printed in Lafayette, Louisiana on acid-free FSC certified paper with permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The 18" x 24" print ships in a sturdy reusable tube.
