"Maspero's Exchange, New Orleans."

ID: 5111 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mr. Boyd Cruise and Mr. Harold Schilke, 1959.172.18.

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"Artistic rendering of Maspero's Slave Exchange in the French Quarter. View from the corner, showing both sides, street lamp at the corner. A young woman walking with a tray on the left. The print was distributed by the Illinois Central Railroad as an advertisement for railroad tourism to New Orleans."

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,…