[Map of Las Ormigas Grant, Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana].
Summary
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.
LC Luso-Hispanic world, 939
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Gift; A.T. Witbeck; 1927
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