| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 5371 |  | Details | Daily Picayune | 1901 |
| The Picayune's Map of New Orleans |
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Daily Picayune |
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| 1901 |
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| $400.00 | Daily-Picayune | The-Picayune-s-Map-of-New-Orleans | Scarce lithographed map of New Orleans, Louisiana published by The Picayune [1] newspaper in 1901. Shows both the West End Railroad and the Ponchartrain Railroad, both now long gone.
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The Mississippi River is shown devoid of bridges but with <b>nine ferry crossings</b>. The first bridge across the Mississippi in Louisiana was not built until 1935. Several paddlewheel steamboats are shown underway in the river
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The Picayune newspaper was started in 1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1914 The Picayune merged with the Times-Democrat to form the Times-Picayune.
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[1] The Picayune was named after a Spanish coin used in Florida and Louisiana worth about six and one-half cents in the 1850s. |