The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain in distance. – Historic 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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Step back in time with The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain in distance., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Lake Pontchartrain in distance.
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Few cities of the 1880s were drawn from as high a vantage as New Orleans, where the Mississippi bends around the city and the levee fills with steamboats loading cotton and sugar for markets upriver and overseas. Currier & Ives, the New York firm best known for its sentimental lithographs, issued this color view around 1885, with Lake Pontchartrain visible on the distant horizon. Such panoramas let residents and visitors take in an entire city at once, and the crowded waterfront is the detail most worth studying, since it shows how central river commerce was to the port.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1885. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color ; 62 x 91.2 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1880-1890.Cityscape prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by Currier & Ives, N.Y. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1214 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 241.1 |
| Subjects | Waterfronts--Louisiana--New Orleans--1880-1890. Steamboats--Louisiana--New Orleans--1880-1890. New Orleans (La.)--1880-1890.United States--Louisiana--New Orleans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,459 × 1,164 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216405 |
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