Cotton on the levee, New Orleans – Historic Reproduction
![Cotton on the levee, New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/83/83c63f9f2678-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 photograph of Cotton on the levee, New Orleans. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cotton on the levee, New Orleans
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Cotton bales stacked high along the riverfront levee at New Orleans set this view apart from the many Mississippi waterfront pictures in the collection. Photographer William Henry Jackson, best known for his Western landscapes, made the negative in the late 1880s or 1890s, and it was later issued by the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold views like this one to travelers and schools. Cotton was the city's great export, and the levee was where it waited for steamboats and ocean vessels to carry it away. The glass plate's survival through the company's catalog is a reminder of how much commercial trade passed along that waterfront.
| Created / published | [between 1880 and 1897] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). 7417" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 8117. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Levees. Cotton. Steamboats. Shipping.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 647 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76354 |
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