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- Published / Created:
- circa 1878-1879.
- Call Number:
- WA Photos 403
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Photograph album of images documenting cities in the Gulf Coast region of the United States, circa 1878-1879. Images primarily depict locations in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as Mobile, Alabama, and the Florida communities of Pensacola, Millview, and Bluff Springs, Images of New Orleans include a view of Jackson Square and surrounding buildings and a view of Canal Street at the intersection with St. Charles Street, probably during Mardi Gras. Images of the New Orleans waterfront include a wharf and levee with bales of cotton and steamboats and a view of the steamboat Natchez. Discrete interior views show memorial catafalques for King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and for Pope Pius IX in January and February 1878 in the St. Louis Cathedral located at Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana, Images of Mobile, Alabama, include a view of Dauphin Street, as well as views of several buildings consisting of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, the wholesale grocery store of Abraham Moog and Bernard Moog, and a residence. A view of Bienville Square shows African American men and white men, women, and children on an adjacent street; an inscription in the negative identifies the photographer as J. S. McClure, a photographer living in New Orleans. A view of Magnolia Cemetery shows a Confederate Rest monument, Images of Pensacola, Florida, include a view of the city, a view of the Yniestra Building on Palafox Street, and a view of sailing ships at wharves in Pensacola Bay. Images of structures include views of a school and residence, as well as the Christ Episcopal Church and a Presbyterian church, and Images in the vicinity of Millview, Florida, include a view of a mill of the Perdido Bay Lumber Company and views along the Escambia River that include a pier and residences at Bluff Springs
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger. and Manuscript captions on mounts.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alabama, Mobile, Bienville Square (Mobile, Ala.), Bluff Springs (Fla.), Canal Street (New Orleans, La.), Escambia River (Fla.), Florida, Gulf Coast (U.S.), Jackson Square (New Orleans, La.), Louisiana, Magnolia Cemetery (Mobile, Ala.), Millview (Fla.), Mobile (Ala.), New Orleans (La.), Pensacola (Fla.), Pensacola Bay (Fla.), and Southern States
- Subject (Name):
- McClure, J. S., b. 1825., Pius IX, Pope, 1792-1878, Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 1820-1878, Christ Episcopal Church (Pensacola, Fla.), Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Natchez (Steamboat), Perdido Bay Lumber Company, and St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans, La.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial and Memorials
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photograph album of the Gulf Coast of the United States
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- Creator:
- Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835
- Published / Created:
- 1834 December 5-1835 April 6.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS VOL 733
- Container / Volume:
- Box
- Image Count:
- 113
- Resource Type:
- text
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript diary written by Robert J. Brown during travel from Boston to Florida Territory, 1834-1835. Entries describe travel by steamboat, stagecoach, and railroad, and record impressions of natural features, commerce, urban development, and social life in cities, towns, and regions including New York City; Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia, and the Tidewater region; Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina; Savannah and Augusta, Georgia; Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida Territory, and the St. Johns River region; and Mobile, Alabama, Entries dated 1834 December describe visits to federal government buildings in Washington, D.C, including observation of debates about federal bank legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Entries recorded in Virginia and South Carolina, 1834 December-1835 January, include references to slavery and the slave trade in Richmond and Charleston, During 1835 January-February, Brown was a guest of Orlando Savage Rees at Spring Garden, Rees’s sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory. These entries include detailed description of sugar production and the working and living conditions of enslaved African Americans, and Other entries relating to Florida Territory describe St. Augustine; camping, hunting, and fishing on the Saint Johns River, with references to alligator hunting and orange cultivation; and encounters with Native Americans. A few entries dated 1835 March-April, apparently incomplete, relate to travel in the Florida Panhandle with description of Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama
- Description:
- Spring Garden, a sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory, was acquired in 1830 by Orlando Savage Rees (1796-1852), of Stateburg, South Carolina. In 1835 December, during the Second Seminole War, Spring Garden was occupied by Seminole Indians and Black Seminoles, who liberated African Americans enslaved on the plantation., In English., and Binding: contemporary three-quarter calf over blue morocco, with gilt edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florida, Volusia County., Florida., South Carolina, Charleston., Virginia, Richmond., South Carolina., Virginia., De Leon Springs (Fla.), Florida Panhandle (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Johns River (Fla.), South Atlantic States, Spring Garden Plantation (Fla.), United States, Volusia County (Fla.), and Washington (D.C.)
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835. and Rees, Orlando Savage, 1796-1852.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alligator hunting, Black Seminoles, Indians of North America, Orange growers, Seminole Indians, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842, Slave trade, Slavery, Sugar, Manufacture and refining, Sugar plantations, Description and travel, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript
