"New Orleans, sketched from the opposite side of the river upon a mast of a vessel during a very low water."

ID: 5096 ~ Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662452/. ~ Creator: Pinistri, S., arch't. and civil engr. ~ Date: October 1839.

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Adrawing on cream paper: pencil, ink, and black ink wash. Topographical view of New Orleans from the Mississippi River shows skyline with sidewheel steamboats, ferries, and three-masted sailing ships in the foreground.

This file appears in: The Levee: Gateway to Uncertainty

The Levee: Gateway to Uncertainty

By August Darbonne, Monisha Jackson, Toni Riley, Brett Todd & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

During the mid-1800’s ships tightly packed the port of New Orleans, according to historian Walter Johnson, “one could walk deck to deck from one end of the city to the other.” All along the docks,…