Research Catalog

Title

Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs : with map : illustrated with many original engravings : and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city / edited and compiled by several leading writers of the New Orleans press.

Publication

• New York : Will H. Coleman, no. 70, Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885.
• ©1885

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Details

Additional Authors

• Coleman, Will H.
• Ford Collection.

Description

[4], 324 pages, [15] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Creoles > Louisiana > New Orleans
• New Orleans (La.) > Guidebooks
• New Orleans (La.) > Description and travel
• New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by Will H. Coleman, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Some Creole songs"--pages 153-160.
• Includes index.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. New Orleans, the Crescent City -- ch. 2. Early history -- ch. 3. The olden days -- ch. 4. By rail -- ch. 5. By water -- ch. 6. The streets -- ch. 7. Sights about town -- ch. 8. Hotel life -- ch. 9. A good dinner -- ch. 10. The clubs -- ch. 11. The churches -- ch. 12. Charity -- ch. 13. The drama and opera -- ch. 14. The city's lungs -- ch. 15. Creole New Orleans -- ch. 16. The city's population -- ch. 17. The old ramparts -- ch. 18. Under the oaks -- ch. 19. Lafitte, the pirate -- ch. 20. The filibusters -- ch. 21. Flatboating days -- ch. 22. The green cloth -- ch. 23. Executions -- ch. 24. The Carnival ; Mardi Gras -- ch. 25. All Saints' Day -- ch. 26. St. John's Eve ; Voudouism -- ch. 27. Rowing in Louisiana -- ch. 28. Steamboat races on the Mississippi -- ch. 29. Horse racing -- ch. 30. Rod and gun -- ch. 31. The flora -- ch. 32. The French Market -- ch. 33. Universities, libraries, etc. -- ch. 34. Crescent City journalism fifty years ago -- ch. 35. How cotton is handled -- ch. 36. Monumental -- ch. 37. Floods and overflows -- ch. 38. Brick and mortar -- ch. 39. Algiers ; The dockyards -- ch. 40. The scenes of Cable's romances -- ch. 41. Personal recollections -- ch. 42. World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.

Call Number

Sc 917.63-C (Coleman, W. Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans)

LCCN

01008771

OCLC

• 1935147
• NYPGR1935147-B

Title

Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs : with map : illustrated with many original engravings : and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city / edited and compiled by several leading writers of the New Orleans press.

Publisher

New York : Will H. Coleman, no. 70, Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885.

Copyright Date

©1885

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 917.63-C (accession no. B593840) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Coleman, Will H., publisher.

Ford Collection.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 917.63-C (Coleman, W. Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans)

ITQ (New Orleans) (Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans)