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[CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1878. Champion trip, 7818 Bales Cotton] – Vintage Print

[CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1878. Champion trip, 7818 Bales Cotton] — historic photograph
[CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1878. Champion trip, 7818 Bales Cotton]. Historic photograph from the New Orleans collection.

(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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A window into the past: [CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1878. Champion trip, 7818 Bales Cotton], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[CHARLES P. CHOUTEAU, New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1878. Champion trip, 7818 Bales Cotton]

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A cotton shipment of 7,818 bales, sent under the name of Charles P. Chouteau, gives this print its particular subject: a load so large that its size was the point of the picture. Its caption places the scene in New Orleans on December 5, 1878, when the port was one of the country's busiest outlets for cotton grown across the South. Cotton bales were heavy, densely packed, and piled high on wharves and decks, so photographs like this one recorded both the scale of the crop and the labor needed to move it. The card lacks a separate date note, so the title is the main source for when it was made.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,196 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128855

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