Souvenir of New Orleans.

$200.00

Item Number: 117530

Columbus, Ohio: Ward Brothers, 1885.

Rare accordion-fold album of photographic views of the city of New Orleans including Canal Street, City Hall, the Charles Hotel, the Louisiana Jockey Club, the West End, Margaret Statue, and Louisiana Cavalry Monument. Small octavo, original boards elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel. In very good condition.

Founded in 1718 by French colonists, the city of New Orleans was once the territorial capital of French Louisiana before it was traded to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. In the 19th century, New Orleans was the largest port in the South, exporting most of the nation's cotton output and other products to Western Europe and New England. It was the largest and most important city in the South; thus an early target for capture by the Union during the Civil War.