Title

Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans

Author

Files

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

Collection

Civil War Collection

Recommended Citation

"Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans" (1855). Civil War Text. 5.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/civilwar-text/5