New Orleans, Louisiana, 1895 – Antique Wall Map
(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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New Orleans, Louisiana, 1895 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain in distance
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New Orleans, Louisiana, 1895
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New Orleans in 1895 was still one of the great cotton and sugar ports of the Gulf, though its position had shifted since the Civil War. Steamboats and railroads brought cotton, sugar and fruit to the wharves along the river, and the city's merchants and brokers handled much of that trade. Sugar planters in the surrounding parishes felt the pinch when the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 reduced the federal protection their crop had long enjoyed. Politics was turning harder in these years. Homer Plessy's 1892 arrest for sitting in a whites-only railroad car set the stage for the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which would be handed down in 1896, and segregation rules were tightening across the city's streetcars and public spaces.
| Created / published | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Creator | currier & ives |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Orleans, Louisiana, drawn in 1895. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,320 × 3,592 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain in distance |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488843 |
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