Winter Louisiana scenery, 1910 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Winter Louisiana scenery, 1910 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Winter scenery in La.
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Winter Louisiana scenery, 1910
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Winter Louisiana scenery from 1910 records the working countryside of the Gulf South during a year of heavy timbering and seasonal sugar work. The lumber boom was then at its height, drawing out-of-state companies into the pine forests of central and western Louisiana, where mill towns and logging railroads reshaped the land within a generation. Along the bayous and in the sugar parishes, winter meant the grinding season, when cane cut in the fall was crushed at mills that ran day and night. Sugar, rice, cotton, and timber linked farm communities to the port of New Orleans, while state politics remained under the white Democratic establishment that had written a new constitution in 1898 to restrict Black voting.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barnett, a. l. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Louisiana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 868 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Winter scenery in La. |
| Reference | LA Winter Louisiana scenery 1910 |
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