Sketches in New Orleans - La Fourche Packet-Landing – 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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This rare antique engraving captures Sketches in New Orleans - La Fourche Packet-Landing in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Sketches in New Orleans - La Fourche Packet-Landing
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The landing this sketch shows is the La Fourche packet landing, where riverboats serving Bayou La Fourche tied up along the New Orleans levee. Those packets carried passengers and freight between the city and the sugar parishes to the west, so the waterfront was a busy point of exchange. The scene was engraved in wood by Kilburn and published on July 22, 1871, in the weekly *Every Saturday*, which ran illustrated sketches of American cities during the years after the Civil War. The print offers a view of how the levee worked as a commercial edge of the city in the early Reconstruction era.
| Created / published | 1871 July 22. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving by Kilburn. Illus. in: Every Saturday, vol. 3, 1871 July 22, p. 89. Ref. copy may be in: GEOG FILE(Gr) - LOUISIANA--NEW ORLEANS. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Levees; Pub. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 949 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159059 |
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