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The Creoles of Louisiana. [With illustrations

Cable, George Washington · 1885 · J. C. Nimmo · 48 pictures

A popular history of New Orleans Creole society by the novelist George Washington Cable, issued in London by J. C. Nimmo in 1885 for general readers. The 48 wood-engraved plates show the Old Ursuline Convent, galleried plantation houses, courtyards and crowded levee wharves in soft grey halftone-like tones, with small engraved captions useful for architectural detail and riverfront crowd silhouettes.

British Library · HMNTS 10409.s.11. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)