Monday, September 22, 2014

shipping at the Levee, New Orleans, 1884


A busy scene on the mighty Mississippi. Pics of an authentic working paddlewheeler, the Creole Queen are here.

The term levée meaning a dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank originated in New Orleans about 300 years ago from the then French speakers (levée = raised).

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