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New Orleans, Louisiana / The Blue and the Grey (National Reunion and Peace Jubilee of the Veterans of the Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi) / Luther Burbank Experimental Farm and Conservatory Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Exchange Alley.” “Royal Street.” Marx art store - V. Hurwitz, furniture - streetcar - automobile traffic. “Lee Circle - St. Charles Street.” “The Old French Market built in 1791 by the Spaniards.” Pedestrians - truck traffic - mule-drawn wagon - produce stalls. “The Old Cabildo. Erected and donated to the city in 1795 by Don Alexander Almonaster y Roxas. Many a royal visitor has been entertained in the Cabildo and the first Protestant church service in Louisiana was held within its walls.” “Spanish Fort. Erected years ago when the Spaniards had possession of the city.” “Scenes along the bayou St. John.” Boats, dredges, piers, and buildings. “Jackson Square.” Equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson. “Metarie Cemetery. All guests are entertained above ground.” “St. Charles Street and residential section.” “Statue of General Beauregard.” Equestrian statue of General Beauregard. “Views in city park.” Man with child feeds swans with cygnets - foot bridges. “A trip up the Mississippi showing the immense shipping that enters the port of New Orleans.” Mississippi River, ships in port and in dry dock - sign, ‘New Orleans Dry Dock and Ship Building - Dock No. 2 - 2,000 Tons.’ “The ‘Infanta Isabel,’ the ship that returned Ambassador Gerard to civilization.” ‘Infanta Isabel, Cadiz’ painted on side of large ship - freighter ‘Selens’ - ‘Holland’ - tugs, freighters, barges with cranes - coal loading conveyor machinery - sailing ship - ‘John H. Kirdy’ - riverboats. “A British Merchantman with a gun mounted aft for defense against submarines.” Gun on ship. Ships, ‘Lisboa,’ ‘Oxen-Sverige,’ and ‘Malfalda Norge.’ “A trip up the Mississippi showing the immense shipping that enters the port of New Orleans.” Piers and buildings. “Scenes in a cotton warehouse.” Workers move cotton bales with dollies. [1917] b. Encampment tents. “Six a.m. and all the conveniences of home.” Civil War veterans wash at long table with basins and towel rack. “Big Army trucks carried the veterans on tours of inspection about the park.” “Numerous monuments stand throughout the park -- silent sentinels in mute testimony to the great sacrifice of fifty years ago. The Illinois monument.” Veterans pose beside Civil War artillery. “Iowa monument.” Minister speaks from platform, veterans and soldiers on platform. “Minnesota monument.” Panorama of the Vicksburg battlefield. “Union Naval monument.” “Dedication of the Missouri monument. Erected by the State of Missouri in commemoration of 27 Union and 15 Confederate organizations which participated in the siege and defense of Vicksburg.” Missouri monument, Vicksburg, dedication ceremonies. “Firing the national salute of 21 guns.” “He copies the inscription for the folks back home.” “Surrender monument. It was on this spot, July 4, l863, that General Pemberton surrendered to General Grant.” “Governor Harding of Iowa speaks to the veterans.” “In the big mess tent. Here the veterans paid a glowing tribute to the culinary art of Vicksburg and at once established that military training also aids the appetite.” “At night the ‘vets’ ‘turned in’ in a big camp on the very spot where in ‘63 Grant and Pemberton were campaigning.” “National Cemetery.” Vicksburg. “The Mississippi at Vicksburg, where the Northern fleet under Admiral Porter passed under the guns of the fort.” “Vicksburg, gaily decorated, gave the ‘old boys’ a rousing welcome, while the Boy Scouts and the 155th Infantry, U.S.A., acted as escort in the big parade.” Veterans ride in army trucks. “‘The Spirit of America.’ The Blue and the Grey and the Khaki.” Soldier with veteran from each side. Flag waves in breeze. [1917] c. Luther Burbank, house and garden, gatehouse, grounds - greenhouse, farm buildings, fields. [1917]
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