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Surveying and Navigation
Sunday July 19, 2009 - Wednesday December 31, 1969 at 12:00pm
Louisiana State Museum
751 Chartres St
New Orleans, Louisiana 70116 Get Directions
Several compasses and telescopes are held in this collection as well as other items used to aide navigation. Interesting items in this collection include a French-made light house lens that was used at South Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi River from the 1890s until the 1920s; a transit used by Louis Pilie, surveyor of the City of New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century; drafting tools of General G. T. Beauregard; and a terrestrial telescope used by Judge A. G. Brice to gaze at ships coming up the Mississippi River.

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