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[Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.], [1910] — historic photograph
[Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.], [1910]. 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: [Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Steamboat seeing New Orleans, New Orleans, La.]

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A banner strung across the steamboat's upper deck reads "Glad-U Kum, April 10-15, 1910," which pins this view to one specific week in spring 1910 in New Orleans. The stern-wheeler is shown carrying sightseers, part of the river excursion trade that drew visitors to the city's waterfront along the Mississippi. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this 8 x 10 inch glass negative, sold views of American cities and scenery to travelers and postcard buyers in the early twentieth century. Its photographs preserve how paddle-wheel excursion boats and the working river looked before the automobile reshaped tourism.

Created / published[1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Banner on steamboat: Glad-U Kum, April 10-15, 1910. G 6858" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039642. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsStern wheelers. Tourist trade.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69257

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