The Levee, New Orleans, La. – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Levee, New Orleans, La.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Levee, New Orleans, La.
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Few places in the United States were as tied to river commerce as the levee at New Orleans, where the Mississippi was lined with wharves, warehouses, and cargo for ships bound for distant ports. This stereograph, dated around 1900, is one of the American Stereoscopic Company's copyrighted views, made for viewers who sat with a stereoscope and saw the scene in three dimensions. Its caption card lists African Americans at work, a reminder that the city's port depended heavily on Black dockworkers and laborers whose labor was often overlooked in the postcard-style views of the period. The record notes that its caption information is unverified, so the particular men and tasks shown are best observed in the image itself.
| Created / published | c1900 Feb. 28. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | 4725 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the American Stereoscopic Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; African Americans--At work; La.--New Orleans--Levees; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,452 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131802 |
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