This print shows Natchez, Mississippi, as it looked to the artist in 1840 – Vintage Wall Art
![This print shows Natchez, Mississippi, as it looked to the artist in 1840, [between 1900 and 1940] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/403685453f8d-L.webp)
(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 print of This print shows Natchez, Mississippi, as it looked to the artist in 1840. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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This print shows Natchez, Mississippi, as it looked to the artist in 1840
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Perched on bluffs above the Mississippi River, Natchez was among the wealthiest cotton-trading towns in the country by 1840, and this view records how it appeared to an artist working that year. The picture survives as a later reproduction, made sometime between 1900 and 1940, when interest in antebellum river towns was growing. Its value lies in the cityscape detail: the waterfront, the streets rising from the river, and the built environment that merchants and planters had shaped in the decades before the Civil War. The town also sits at the southwestern end of the Natchez Trace, the old overland route now preserved as the Natchez Trace Parkway.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cityscape prints 1840 Reproductions 1900-1940.Stats 1900-1940. |
| Subjects | Natchez (Miss.)--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,676 × 2,581 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189564 |
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