The River
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| Thumbnail | Series | Subseries | Image # (click to view) | Allison's Description | Date | Additional Description | Original Location |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 1 | Stern-wheel steamboat | 1899 | The Gem | I 01 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 2 | Harbor tug | 1899 | I 02 | |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 3 | Ships at anchor, waiting for a dock | 1900 | I 03 | |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 4 | Craft of various types | 1905 | A freighter | I 04 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 5 | Craft of various types | 1905 | Stern-wheel steamboat Lafourche | I 05 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 7 | Craft of various types | 1905 | A tug boat, a dredge, and a French warship | I 06 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 8 | Craft of various types | 1905 | The Shenango | I 07 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 9 | The wake of the Canal Street ferry | 1905 | The Algiers court house in the background | I 08 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 10 | Cromwell liner, "Louisiana," sunk at her berth | 1905 | I 09 | |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 6 | Cromwell liner, "Louisiana," sunk at her berth | 1905 | S.S. Grover Cleveland in the foreground | I 10 |
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The River | Wharves, Docks, Etc. | Photograph 11 | Downriver from Huey Long bridge | 1952/October 12 | I 11 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | American Sugar Refinery from the River | 1905 | MISSING PHOTOGRAPH | II 01 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 16 | North Peters at Reynes | 1905 | II 02 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 14 | Away downtown | 1905-1910 | Area of North Peters and Flood Streets; the local Kneipp Water Cure (Cure D'Eau) is shown at the center | II 03 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 15 | Away downtown | 1905-1910 | The building at center is probably the Bethlehem Orphan Asylum at Andry and North Peters Streets | II 04 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 13 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | The new American Sugar Refinery under construction in Arabi | II 05 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 17 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | II 06 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 19 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | This view appears actually to show the riverfront in New Orleans, upriver from Canal Street | II 07 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 22 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | This MAY show the entrance to the Lake Borgne Canal (or Violet Canal) from the River | II 07a |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 20 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | II 08 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 21 | East bank, below the city | 1905-1910 | II 09 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 18 | West bank, Algiers | 1900 | Actually shows Harvey's Castle adjacent to what is now the Harvey Canal, upriver from Algiers | II 10 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 23 | Both banks, looking upstreat | 1905-1910 | Actually appears to be looking downstream with Algiers Point on the left | II 11 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 24 | Both banks, looking upstreat | 1905-1910 | Actually appears to be looking downstream towards the new American Sugar Refinery | II 12 |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 25 | Ships' graveyard, Algiers Point | 1905-1915 | III 01 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 26 | Ships' graveyard, Algiers Point | 1905-1915 | III 02 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 27 | The Levee, looking downstream from near Carrollton Avenue | 1900/Spring | III 03 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 28 | The Levee, looking downstream from near Carrollton Avenue | 1948 | III 04 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 29 | Business Section seen from Egania Street, twice across the River | 1953 | III 05 | |
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The River | The banks of the Mississippi | Photograph 30 | Inter-coastal Canal Locks, Harvey, Louisiana | 1954/March | Actually the Intracoastal Canal | III 06 |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 31 | Cotton dray, foot of Canal Street | 1905-1910 | IV 01 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 32 | Sugar, old refinery in background | 1905-1910 | The Louisville & Nashville Railroad depot and sheds are shown in the foreground | IV 02 |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 33 | Foot of Canal Street | 1905-1910 | IV 03 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 34 | Arrival of Rex is due soon | 1905-1910 | IV 04 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 35 | Steamboats--H. M. Carter | 1905-1910 | IV 05 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 36 | Steamboats and Cotton | 1905-1910 | IV 06 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 37 | Steamboats and Cotton | 1905-1910 | The steamboat Natchez is shown; negative missing--image scanned from the existing print | IV 07 |
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The River | Along the Levees | Steamboats and Cotton | 1905-1910 | MISSING PHOTOGRAPH | IV 08 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 39 | Steamboats and Cotton and Sugar | 1905-1910 | Steamboat Bob Blanks is shown | IV 09 |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 40 | Steamboat Landing, below Canal Street Ferry | 1905-1910 | IV 10 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 41 | Canal Street Ferry Landing | 1905 | IV 11 | |
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The River | Along the Levees | Photograph 42 | Canal Street Ferry Landing | 1948 | IV 12 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 43 | Foot of Canal Street | 1905-1910 | V 01 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 44 | At Poydras Street | 1905-1910 | Steamboat H. M. Carter is shown | V 02 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 45 | Ship at wharf | 1905-1910 | V 03 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 46 | Ship at wharf | 1905-1910 | The Michigan (appears to be a freighter) | V 04 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 47 | Dock Board sheds | 1905-1910 | V 05 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 48 | Dock Board sheds | 1905-1910 | V 06 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 49 | Dock Board sheds | 1905-1910 | Interior view (possibly the Poydras Street wharf) | V 07 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 50 | Stuyvesant Docks | 1905-1910 | V 08 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 51 | Stuyvesant Docks | 1905-1910 | V 09 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 52 | Stuyvesant Docks | 1905-1910 | V 10 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 53 | Stuyvesant Docks | 1905-1910 | V 11 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 54 | Poydras Street shed, looking downstream | 1948 | Showing the viaduct that once offered access over the railroad tracks to the Poydras Street and other uptown wharves. | V 12 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 55 | Eads Plaza, at foot of Canal Street | 1948 | Offers a good view of the pedestrian walkway over the L&N Railroad tracks to the Canal Street ferry landing | VI 01 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 56 | Canal Street Ferry Landing | 1948 | The S.S. President appears in this photograph | VI 02 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 58 | Alcoa--Bienville Street Shed, river side | 1948 | VI 03 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 57 | Alcoa--Bienville Street Shed, land side | 1948 | VI 04 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 59 | Industrial Canal, at river end | 1948 | Holy Cross College and part of the Holy Cross neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward are shown | VI 05 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 60 | Industrial Canal, North towards St. Claude Avenue | 1948 | Part of the Holy Cross neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward is shown | VI 06 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 61 | Industrial Canal, a tow entering from the River | 1953 | The city's 1953 skyline is visible in the background | VI 07 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 62 | Banana unloader | 1953 | VI 08 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 63 | S.S. Orinoco at Poydras Street Shed | 1953 | Actually the Rio Orinoco out of the port of La Guaira, Venezuela | VI 09 |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 64 | Grain Elevator | 1954/March | VI 10 | |
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The River | Wharves, Sheds, Docks | Photograph 65 | Banana unloaders at Thalia Street | 1956/April | VI 11 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 66 | Low river at Carrollton | undated by Allison | VII 01 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 67 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 02 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 68 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 03 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 69 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 04 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 70 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 05 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 71 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 06 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 72 | High river at Carrollton | 1900 | VII 07 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 74 | High river near Jackson Avenue | 1900 | VII 08 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 73 | High river near Jackson Avenue | 1900 | VII 09 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 75 | High river near Jackson Avenue | 1900 | VII 10 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 76 | Ship at flooded wharf | 1900 | VII 11 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 77 | Driftwood at ferry landing | 1900 | Perhaps the Walnut Street ferry? | VII 12 |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 78 | Flooded wharves, sand bag levees--near Canal Street | undated | VIII 01 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 79 | Flooded wharves, sand bag levees--near Canal Street | undated | VIII 02 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 80 | Strengthening Third District levee | undated | VIII 03 | |
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The River | New Orleans--Low Water--High Water | Photograph 81 | Strengthening Third District levee | undated | VIII 04 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 82 | U.S.S. Olympia | 1890 | IX 01 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 83 | General view | 1905-1915 | IX 02 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 84 | General view | 1905-1915 | IX 03 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | U.S.S. Brooklyn and others | 1905-1915 | MISSING PHOTOGRAPH(?) | IX 04 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | U.S.S. Brooklyn and others | 1905-1915 | MISSING PHOTOGRAPH(?) | IX 05 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 87 | Small boat of French cruiser | 1905-1915 | IX 06 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Various | 1905-1915 | MISSING PHOTOGRPAH(?) | IX 07 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 89 | Freighter, "Constitution," and "Arkansas" | 1932 | IX 08 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 90 | [U.S.S.] Constitution--"Old Ironsides" | 1932 | IX 09 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 91 | U.S.S. Arkansas | 1932 | IX 10 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 92 | U.S.S. Arkansas--On Board | 1932 | IX 11 | |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 93 | U.S.S. Louisiana(?) | undated | This image does not appear to be included on Allison's descriptive list of photographs | [IX 12] |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 94 | French cruiser | undated | This image does not appear to be included on Allison's descriptive list of photographs | [IX 13] |
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The River | Visitors in the Harbor | Photograph 95 | U.S.S. Tennessee(?) and the Belle of the Bends | undated | This image does not appear to be included on Allison's descriptive list of photographs | [IX 14] |
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