"The Mississippi at New Orleans," an 1872 sketch by Alfred R. Waud.

ID: 6446 ~ Source: Alfred Rudolph Waud, 1828 - 1891, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RiverboatsMississippiAtNewOrleansWaud.jpeg.

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"The Mississippi at New Orleans," an 1872 sketch by Alfred R. Waud.

The image shows various boats, including a steamship, in the Mississippi River with New Orleans in the background. This would be the scene of the river at the time Madame Decuir boarded the Governor Allen.

This file appears in: Madame Josephine Decuir

Madame Josephine Decuir

By Jordan Hammon, edited by Adam D. Coste, Jessica Dauterive, and Lauren Smith

By the 1870s, steamboats carried passengers up and down the Mississippi River, docking in the ports of major cities like New Orleans. Here, in July 1872, Captain John Benson denied Josephine Decuir née Dubuclet entry into the women’s cabin on the…