Louisiana - the business boom in the South - a scene on the levee at New Orleans – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Louisiana - the business boom in the South - a scene on the levee at New Orleans comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Louisiana - the business boom in the South - a scene on the levee at New Orleans
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Under the heading "the business boom in the South," this wood engraving shows a working scene on the levee at New Orleans, the riverfront where cargo moving along the Mississippi was loaded and unloaded. Joseph Horton made the sketch, and an engraver turned it into a print for *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper*, which ran it in the January 8, 1881, issue. The picture reflects the optimism of the early 1880s, when New Orleans was working to rebuild its trade after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Illustrated weeklies like this one brought scenes of commerce and city life to readers who could not see them firsthand.
| Created / published | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Wood engraving from a sketch by Joseph Horton. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1881 Jan. 8), p. 320. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Levees; Publ. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,009 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155678 |
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