On the levee, New Orleans – Historic Print
![On the levee, New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/85/85d560e4c0dd-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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Step back in time with On the levee, New Orleans, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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On the levee, New Orleans
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Dock hands sit atop covered goods on the New Orleans levee, with the side-wheel steamer Belle of the Coast nearby. In the late 1800s the riverfront was one of the busiest cotton-shipping points in the country, and the levee was where cargo moved from warehouses onto steamboats bound for markets along the Mississippi and beyond. The view is attributed to photographer William Henry Jackson, known for his western scenes, and the negative later passed to the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many prints of American places around 1900. The picture shows the slow, physical labor that kept the port running.
| 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). Includes dock hands seated on covered goods. 7422" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 8122. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Belle of the Coast (Side wheeler) Levees. Cotton. Side wheelers. Shipping.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 695 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76359 |
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