On the levee at New Orleans – Antique Wall Art
![On the levee at New Orleans, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d5/d53e8f31065b-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of On the levee at New Orleans. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the levee at New Orleans
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Cotton bales are being loaded onto the stern-wheel steamer *Warren* at the New Orleans levee, where the riverfront was the city's main point of exchange for the crop. In the 1880s and 1890s, cotton from the Mississippi Valley and beyond was hauled to the docks and shipped by river boat or steamship, and dockworkers, many of them African American, did much of the heavy lifting. The photograph is attributed to William Henry Jackson, a well-known western photographer, and its later print run through the Detroit Publishing Company helped spread views of American river commerce to a wide public.
| 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). Loading cotton onto the steamer Warren. 7418" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 8118. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Warren (Stern wheeler) Levees. Cotton. African Americans--Employment. Shipping. Stern wheelers.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 631 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-76355 |
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