“Vintage Maps Trace the Meandering Mississippi”
▻http://www.visualnews.com/2011/09/24/vintage-maps-trace-the-meandering-mississippi
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For anyone obsessed with beautiful maps, these colorful and informative examples tracking the many paths of the lower Mississippi are a dream come true. The monumental collection was produced in 1944 by Harold N. Fisk, who drew in a rainbow of colors the path of past and current flows as the mighty river changed course and flooded over time.