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Alternative Title
Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion
Description
Loose leaf from Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, the illustrated weekly periodical published in Boston, MA from 1800s. Consists of 4 pages (253-254, 285-286). Issue number unknown. Features engravings and sketches by Mr. F. Bellew, representing cotton loading scenes on the Alabama River, and scene on the Levee with blacks trundling cotton bales and flower girls at New Orleans. Contains text describing these sketches. Other articles include "Libraries of Messrs. Choate and Everett" and "The Shoshonee falls." Also includes Editorial Melange and covers a variety of news. Oversized. The contemporary preferred term for “blacks” is “black people”.
Keywords
American literature; Periodicals; 19th century; Periodicals; Alabama River (Ala.); New Orleans (La.); 1855
Subject
American literature -- Periodicals; American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Alabama River (Ala.); New Orleans (La.); 1855
City
New Orleans (La.)
Number of Images
4 pages; 40 cm.
Format
application/pdf
Place
Louisiana
Digital Reproduction Specifications
Jpeg2000 images were derived from no less than 400 dpi tiff images
Date Contributed
7-2020
Identifier
DP0012806
Rights
This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL 32816, (407) 823-2576.
File Location
African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010.
UCF Special Collections Manuscripts - 5th Floor -- CFM2009_02
The Carol Mundy Collection Finding Aid
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Recommended Citation
"Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans" (1855). Civil War Text. 5.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/civilwar-text/5
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