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Description: "Mississippi River at New Orleans, 1873". Woodcut view showing river with fishing boat, sail boats, and flat boats in foreground; further back a steamship and sailing ships. In background a portion of the city's skyline seen; steeples of St. Patrick's Church and the old First Presbyterian Church seen left of center.
Title: Mississippi River at New Orleans 1873 Measom
Credit: Woodcut by A. Measom Jr. Based on sketch by A. Waud. Published in William Cullen Bryant (ed.) Picturesque America: or, the land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, water-falls, shores, canyons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country, (Vol. 2, 1874). Via copy at [1] (Lower res with more info at [2]
Author: Alfred R. Waud / A. Measom Jr.
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License: Public domain
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