The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs: Natchez to New Orleans, 1870-1920 Contributor(s): Gandy, Joan W. (Editor), Gandy, Thomas H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0486252604 ISBN-13: 9780486252605 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1987 Annotation: Considered among the finest photographs of the Mississippi ever taken, 170 recently discovered photographs offer vivid, detailed, beautifully composed images of major steamboats, picturesque river towns, landings, floods, cargoes, great waterway itself. Detailed, informative text. Index. Bibliography. Preface. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - General - History | United States - General |
Dewey: 386.224 |
LCCN: 86024354 |
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 8.97" W x 11.77" (1.06 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Life on the Mississippi in the heyday of the steamboat lives in our imaginations through the artistry of Mark Twain, Edna Ferber, and Hollywood films, or perhaps a glimpse of a salvaged riverboat living out its last years as a theme restaurant. Surely the Mississippi steamboat era is among the most colorful and romantic in our history. But what was it really like, beyond our secondhand notions of stalwart river pilots, wayward boys and runaway slaves, of gamblers in tall hats and ladies in hoopskirts, of cotton, cakewalks, and carpetbaggers. |