The levee-New Orleans – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: The levee-New Orleans, preserved in this antique lithograph. 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
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This chromolithograph centers on the levee itself, the long embankment where goods moved between riverboats and the city along the Mississippi at New Orleans. The print was published in New York by Currier & Ives around 1884, and it bears the signature of the artist William A. Walker. The firm produced colorful views of American cities and rivers for a wide middle-class market, so the image reflects how the public pictured the city in the 1880s. In that period the New Orleans waterfront was one of the country's busiest cotton and steamboat landings, which makes the scene a useful record of river commerce.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1884. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Artist: William A. Walker (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3750 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175508 |
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