The River Runs Through It: New Orleans and the Mississippi
The River Runs Through It:
New Orleans and
the Mississippi
This is the online version of an exhibition currently on view at New Orleans Public Library
focusing on the
Mississippi River's gifts to New Orleans and city government's role in managing the
all-important waterway. The
exhibit uses
large scale reproductions of original materials--maps, plans, prints, photographs, and
documents--from the City
Archives and other Louisiana Division collections. We present these images here along with a
selection of quotes from
a number of authorities on the history of the river and of the city.
"The River Runs Through It: New Orleans and the Mississippi" was designed and mounted by
archivists Wayne
Everard and Irene Wainwright. Photographic services were provided by Southern Lights, Inc.,
and Ridgways, Inc.
supplied imaging and lamination services. Additional lamination work was provided by Robert
Baxter and Charles
Delong of NOPL's Duplications Division.
This exhibition is part of the City of New Orleans' celebration of its 280th anniversary. It will
remain on view at the
Main Library through July, 1998. Visitors to the Library can view a selection of additional
original materials in the
display cases on the Main Library's third floor.
Link from the black squares below to a larger version
of each image and its
accompanying caption and text.
| The title
image View of New Orleans,
taken from the Lower Cotton Press (published by Louis Schwartz, ca. 1850)
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| From Survey of the
Mississippi River made
under the direction of the Mississippi River Commission, 1874-1894
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| Print of the levee at New
Orleans
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| Plan of the project to
widen the levee of the
Second Municipality, Joseph Pilie, June 15, 1827.
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| The steamboat John
A. Scudder
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| Plan for a garbage boat,
C. Crozet, August,
1836.
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| This print, probably from
the 1830s, shows the
city from the Algiers shore
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| Menu for a special dinner
aboard the John
W. Cannon in 1881.
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| The arrival of Rex from his
royal barge, February
11, 1907
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| Profiles showing the
level of the batture in front
of the Faubourg Ste. Marie, 1807.
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| From ca. 1905, the old and the
new
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| Design of a pier to
cover the suction pipe of
the pump for supplying water to the City of New Orleans, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, January 29,
1819.
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| Register of flatboats,
barges, rafts, and
steamboats in the port of New Orleans, 1806 - 1812.
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| Roustabouts on the
New Orleans levee, ca.
1890.
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| Plan of sounding lines
off the levee of the
First Municipality, ca. 1838.
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| List of passengers aboard the
Brig Pedraza
from Nassau, New Providence, May 16, 1851.
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| Steamboats tied up at
the levee, ca.
1880.
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| River activity
documented in the New Orleans
Daily Crescent, April 25, 1861.
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The ferry boatA.M.Halliday, photographed at dock during
the visit of President Theodore Roosevelt to New Orleans, October 26, 1905.
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