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Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans

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Title: Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes in New Orleans.
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Alternative Title: Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Alternative Title: Gleason's pictorial.
Alternative Title: Welcome guest (Boston, Mass. : 1867).
Name(s): Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Periodicals
Date Created: 1855
Physical Form: Leaf
Extent: 4 pages; 40 cm.
Physical Description: Illustration included.
Language(s): English
Identifier: DP0012806 (IID)
Description: Loose leaf from Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, the illustrated weekly periodical published in Boston, MA from 1800s. Consists of 4 pages (253-254, 285-286). Issue number unknown. Features engravings and sketches by Mr. F. Bellew, representing cotton loading scenes on the Alabama River, and scene on the Levee with blacks trundling cotton bales and flower girls at New Orleans. Contains text describing these sketches. Other articles include "Libraries of Messrs. Choate and Everett" and "The Shoshonee falls." Also includes Editorial Melange and covers a variety of news. Oversized.
Provenance: Acquired by Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries from Carol Mundy, the collector of African-Americana.
Digital Reproduction Specifications: Digitized by the University of Central Florida Libraries. Jpeg and Jpeg2000 images were derived from 400 dpi tiffs scanned on a Copibook scanner.
Subject(s): American literature -- Periodicals
American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Alabama River (Ala.)
New Orleans (La.)
1855
Held by: University of Central Florida Libraries, Special Collection & University Archives
Links: http://library.ucf.edu/about/departments/special-collections-university-archives/
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/DP0012806
Use and Reproduction: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections & University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, FL 32816, (407) 823-2576.
Host Institution: UCF
Is Part Of: Civil War in the American South.
http://www.american-south.org This item is made available to the ASERL Civil War in the American South portal.
Is Part Of: African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy Collection, 1794-2010.
UCF Special Collections Manuscripts - 5th Floor -- CFM2009_02
The Carol Mundy Collection Finding Aid