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  • Image 1 of The New Orleans book, |F 379 N5 R47 ICopy 1 Mm mMmm VDwill BH HfilllmaDilHlii UuffiBfiH Wttbm® Bllil mtuiiKtSi UUWttlwU INOK UtnMHffAXXwUul 1 m WsmMm Ini ijuffiflMAm I IHlSftu I IDflHHHIi DQyDnHBI M QQSSfilw HnHffRlffHn Hi...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
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    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
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    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
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    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
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    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 6 of The New Orleans book,
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 7 of The New Orleans book, OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. HIS flag was accepted by Mayor Behrman and raised over the City Hall, February ninth, nine- teen hundred and eighteen. It was designed by...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 8 of The New Orleans book, 1. Monarchical France. 3. First French Republic. 5. State Flag, adopted by the Louisiana Con- vention which passed the Ordinance of Secession. 7. The present Flag of the United States. 2. Spain....
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 9 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK PUBLISHED BY ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD New Orleans. SEAECY PFAFF, ltd. 720-728 Ferdldo Street. 1919.
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 10 of The New Orleans book, Copyrighted 1919 By ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD. New Orleans, La. ©CI.A5611J 4
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 11 of The New Orleans book, INTRODUCTION. F the opportunities within her reach are intelligently realized, New Orleans will become one of the great centers of the world. Love of country is a feeling in- herent in every...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 12 of The New Orleans book,
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 13 of The New Orleans book, PREFACE. T is only meet that the public should know how this study of New Orleans was made I possible. The accomplishment of the task was at first doubtful but the passing...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 14 of The New Orleans book, CONTENTS. Chapter. Page. I. Geographical Conditions 1 II. History of New Orleans 7 III. Drainage Sewerage Filter Plant 43 IV. Health Conditions 47 V. Systems of Communication 59 VI. Trade 65 VII....
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 15 of The New Orleans book, ILLUSTRATIONS. The Flags Frontispiece Page. Cross Section Showing Land-Slope from the River to the Lake _.. 2 Scene in Third District Showing Levee Con- struction; Material Being Brought on Cars 3 Scene...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 16 of The New Orleans book, ILLUSTRATIONS— Continued. Page. Page. Products of a Truck Farm on Reclaimed Land 93 New Orleans Public Library 122 Orange Grove _ 95 Charles Gayarre 125 Loading Oysters on a Transport 96 Alcee...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 17 of The New Orleans book, CHAPTER I. Geographical Conditions. SECTION 1. LOCATION OF NEW ORLEANS. Location. Bienville selected the present site of New Orleans for his capital, because he real- ized that one day his little settlement...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 18 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. As the Mississippi River carries hundreds of millions of tons of silt into the Gulf every year, this process of land building continues. Even after the land was...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 19 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. SECTION 5. INUNDATIONS. Causes of Inundations. New Orleans has suffered from overflows of the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. Floods from Lake Pont- chartrain have resulted from two causes:...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 20 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. Frequently the dirt is brought on barges, or in cars, if there are railroad tracks near. Great cranes unload the barges or cars and place the dirt in...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 21 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. There is ice on an average of less than four times a year, and the ground seldom freezes. All hut the most delicate plants can remain out of...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 22 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. portance. These warnings, issued from twenty- four to thirty-six hours in advance, are scat- tered throughout the threatened region by flags at Weather Bureau stations, by telegraph, tele-...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 23 of The New Orleans book, CHAPTER II. History of New Orleans. SECTION 1. FRENCH DOMINATION. 1. LOUISIANA BEFORE 1718. Early Explorers of Louisiana. In 1528, Pamphilo de Narvaez led an expedition from Cuba into Florida. Defeated by...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 24 of The New Orleans book, 8 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. entered the Mississippi on February 6th, 1682. When he at length reached the mouth of the river, he claimed for France all the land watered by the...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 25 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. train and Borgne, to Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay, which he thus reached before the river party. As he had found no spot on the river free from...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 26 of The New Orleans book, 10 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. Gulf of Mexico. Bienville chose for the site of his settlement an elevation on this island one hundred ten miles from the river s mouth, be- tween...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 27 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 11 Failure of Law s Bank. Law s great bank in Pari* failed at this time, ruining the majority of those connected with him. The poor Germans whom...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 28 of The New Orleans book, 12 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. tained myrtle wax; these became staple props and the industry and enterprise of the Fathers a good example to the other colonists. The order was suppressed through...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 29 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 13 Improvements. De Vaudreuil s rule was a period of development. The levees, so neces- sary to the good of the country, were extended and made better. In...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 30 of The New Orleans book, 14 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. The war was practically ended by the surrender of Quebec and Montreal to the English; the former in 1759, and the latter in 1760. Peace was not...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 31 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 15 this governor were his trade regulations. He ordered the merchants not to sell their goods until just and intelligent persons had in- spected them and listed the...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 32 of The New Orleans book, 16 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. Li ti fit mt Ce*//*.6- it ten tf Assistance Given to American Revolution. Galvez allowed Oliver Pollock, an American merchant, to colled anus and ammunition and send...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 33 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 17 cathedral, as Florida and Louisiana had been united into one diocese, with the bishopric in New Orleans. The cathedral was constructed of brick, and appeared much as...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 34 of The New Orleans book, 18 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. ond; there were five forts connected by a wall, in front of which was a moat. Fort St. Charles was on the lower river front and Fort...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 35 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 19 Toulouse and the Rue de la Levee; it faced the river, had a parterre to one side and on the other a latticed screened gallery; the kitchen...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 36 of The New Orleans book, 20 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK, stucco with a covering of cement were used in building; the structures were massive, with arches and arched doorways, balconies and courtyards; they were to stand the...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 37 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 21 City Guardians. The military had the duty of preserving order. For this purpose a small band of soldiers was kept on duty at the cala- boose, and...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 38 of The New Orleans book, 22 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK, ^B ~sr fPI ir j K 1 Ifl ^b J W Wl i W\ J /i l,\l SS \T Secret Treaty of Ildefonso, 1800. Napoleon persuaded the...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 39 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. 23 change in the dramatis personna?; Laussat transferred the province to the two American commissioners, Claiborne and Wilkinson; the former took charge of civil affairs and the latter...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919
  • Image 40 of The New Orleans book, 24 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK. and Common; Camp Street, from a slave camp located there, between Poydras and Girod. The aristocratic suburb was along the Bayou St. John road. Below the Vieux...
    • Contributor: Kean, Evelina Prescott - [Richey, Emma Cecilia] - New Orleans. Board of School Directors
    • Date: 1919