Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View of the T.P. Leathers Steamer at dock. Men can be seen loading cargo onto the ship. Caption reads: "A Mississippi Steamer." |
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Description: | View of Southern Pacific Railroad cars being transferred across the Mississippi River with a barge near New Orleans. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne... |
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Description: | Composite of views showing the French market, sugar refinery and sugar sheds, fishing boats, steamer unloading bananas, and picking and cutting sugar cane ... |
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Description: | Composite of views of New Orleans, including French quarter, market, collonade, locksmith, and tin fix. Text accompanying the views reads: "Vegetable Carts... |
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Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of the French market. A cart transporting bales of cotton is in the street on the left. Railroad tracks are in the street. |
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Description: | A milkman stands on top of his horse-drawn cart full of large milk cans on a street. |
Date: | 08 16 1955 |
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Description: | Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare gather outside the convention hall. |
Date: | 12 21 1925 |
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Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
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Description: | From left to right, Sprague Vonier, Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer stand at the entrance to a bar called Regal in the French Quarter in New Orleans. |
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Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Private Henry C. Stafford, Company I, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, and, standing on his left side, 1st Lieutenant Issac N. Ear... |
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Description: | View of a barge transporting railroad cars and an engine across a river. Several men are on the barge, including one on an overhead structure. Text on phot... |
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Description: | Elevated view of a dock scene, where workers are preparing bales of cotton for loading. A steamship and a tugboat are nearby. More ships and the shoreline ... |
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Description: | A group of men wearing hats gathered around a water pump. Scaffolding surrounds the operation and a large pulley is visible. Text on image reads "Largest f... |
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Description: | A man and a woman stand in front of archways at the Old St. Louis Hotel Slave Block. The woman points to something overhead. |
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Description: | View of railroad cars being ferried across the river. |
Date: | 1985 |
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Description: | Painting depicting the Battle of New Orleans, fought on 8 January 1815. In the upper corner of the painting Major General Andrew Jackson is shown at the to... |
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