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Ballou's Pictorial Vol. Ix., No. 25, December 22, 1855
Ballou's Pictorial Vol. Ix., No. 25, December 22, 1855
Civil War Text
Ballou's Pictorial, Boston, Saturday, December 22, 1855. Loose leaf from Vol. IX., No. 25 (Whole No. 233). The back of the leaf shows page number "386." Leaf includes an emblematical picture of the great State of Louisiana and a novel written by Austin C. Burdick "The Visconti, or, Barbarigo the Stranger, a tale of Milan during the middle ages."
Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes In New Orleans
Ballou's Pictorial: Scenes In New Orleans
Civil War Text
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. The contemporary preferred term for “blacks” is “black people”.