Book/Printed Material The New Orleans book,
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Image 1 of The New Orleans book, ,N5 R46 ICopv 1 NEW BOO JLotow 4 •*v- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 2 of The New Orleans book, Copyrig]itl^ _ COFXRIGHT DEFOSm- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 3 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 4 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 5 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 6 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
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Image 7 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 8 of The New Orleans book, Monarchical France. 3. First French Republic. State Flag, adopted by the Louisiana Convention which passed the Ordinance of Secession. The present Flag of the United States. Spain. Flag of the United States...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 9 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK BY EMMA C. RICHEY EVELINA P. KEAN New Orleans The L. Graham Co Ltd Printers 430-432 common street 19 15- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 10 of The New Orleans book, rs79 COPYRIGHT EMMA C, RICHEY EVELINA P. KEAN NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA ©CI,A410684 SEP 2? 1915- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 11 of The New Orleans book, INTKODLCTIOX. F tlie opportunities within lier i-eacli arc 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: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 12 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 13 of The New Orleans book, PREFACE. T is only nieot that the public should know how this study of New Orleans was made possible. The accomplishment of the task was at first doubtful; but the passing weeks...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 14 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 15 of The New Orleans book, CONTENTS. Chapter. Page. T. Geographical Conditions 1 IT. History of New Orleans 7 III. Drainage Sewerage Filtici; I i.ant 4. IV. Health Conditions J 9 V. Systems of Communication )9 VI. Trade...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 16 of The New Orleans book,- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 17 of The New Orleans book, ILLUSTRATIONS. The Flags Frontispiece Page. Cross Section Showing Land-Slope from the EivER TO THE Lake 2 Scene in Third District Showing Levee Con- struction; Material Being Brought on Cars 3 Scene in...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 18 of The New Orleans book, ILLUSTRATIONS— Continued. Latest Model of Electric Car in Use in New Orleans 63 Map of New Orleans Harbor^ Louisiana Avenue TO Alvar Street 65 Drydocks and United States Government Landings 66 Banana...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 19 of The New Orleans book, CHAPTER I. Geographical Conditions. SECTION 1. LOCATION OF NEW ORLEANS. Location. Bienville selected a few knolls rising out of a tree-covered swamp as the site for his capital, because he realized that...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 20 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK work. Swollen by the floods and melting snows along its upper course, it would annually over- flow tliis region, leaving a deposit of alluvium. from the river front,...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 21 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK same result is produced when violent storms pile up the waters of the lake. The level of Lake Pontchartrain was raised five feet by the Bonnet Carre crevasse...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 22 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK Louisville and Nashville depot and slopes up until it is two to three feet above liigii-water mark at the river front. The Orleans Levefe Board maintains twelve miles...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 23 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK rated witli moisture, wliicli lessens the intensity of the sun s rays by day and prevents rapid radiation by nigiit. During the winter months, the prevailing winds are...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 24 of The New Orleans book, 6 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK wlicro similar calculations are niade for tlieir respective A ieinities. Distribution of Forecasts. Witliin two hours after the moruiug observations have been taken, the forecasts are telegraplied...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 25 of The New Orleans book, Chapter il. History of New Orleans. SECTION I. FRENCH DOMINATION. 1. LOUISIANA BEFORE 1718. Early Explorers of Louisiana. In 1528, Pam- pliilo de Nai vaez led an expedition from Cuba into Florida....- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 26 of The New Orleans book, 8 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK Salle, left Quebec, February 2, 1682, to explore the MississipiDi tlirougli its entire length. He reached the mouth on April 6th, claimed for France all the land...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 27 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK wLich he thus reached before the river party. As he had found no spot on the river free from the annual overflow, he erected a fort on the...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 28 of The New Orleans book, 10 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 1 weoii the head of Bayou St. John and the river. This location iiresented many advantages over the surrounding country; the land was higher; it was accessible...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 29 of The New Orleans book, The mew ORLEANS BOOK 11 their homes. He persuaded Uieiii to settle along the river above the city. Thus was formed the nucleus of the German settlement on the banks of the...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 30 of The New Orleans book, 12 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK besides conducting the regular parish school. The hoys, however, had to be sent to France for a good education. The girls of New Orleans were more fortu-...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 31 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 13 leans. This sudden influx of people forced the government to erect more commodious barracks in the lower part of the city by the river front, ■where is...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 32 of The New Orleans book, 14 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK Government Under French Rule. Tlie Lou- isiana province was governed by a Superior Council, composed originally of two members, namely, the governor and commissary. Gradu- ally the...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 33 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 15 the Milliets and others, a conspiracy was formed for the expulsion of UUoa and the seizure of the city. Noyan and Villere, with their followers, secured control...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 34 of The New Orleans book, 16 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK the United States, and gave thirty-one degrees North Latitude as the southern boundary of the United States. Great Fires of 1788 and 1794. The couflagi-a- tion of...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 35 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 17 CABELDO AS IT APPEARS TO-DAY, St founder— the addition of a French roof. Here, the Spanish Cabildo held its sessions and the formal transfer of Louisiana from...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 36 of The New Orleans book, 18 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK ETIENNE DB BORE. Courtesy La. State Museum. fed on its leaves. Etienne de Bore decided to cultivate his entire plantation in sugar. This plantation was where CarroUton...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 37 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 19 river, had a parterre to one side and on tlie other Hospital and Military Hospital have also passed a latticed screened gallery; the kitchen and stables were...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 38 of The New Orleans book, 20 THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK formed the chief commercial class. The dairy- men and truck-farmers were mostly Canary Islanders or Islennes; the fishermen, Italians; gipsies, who had given up their wandering life,...- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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Image 39 of The New Orleans book, THE NEW ORLEANS BOOK 21 Europe, heads sunk in liigh collars, arms and hands lost in long sleeves, chins buried in triple cravats, and legs encased in high boots with great flaps....- Contributor: Richey, Emma Cecilia - Kean, Evelina Prescott
- Date: 1915
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- Date: 1915