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SEMINAL REPORT ON NAVAL
BATTLE FOR NEW ORLEANS
CIVIL WAR. Welles, Gideon.
Letter Of The Secretary Of The Navy, In Answer To A Resolution Of
The Senate Of The 22d Ultimo, Transmitting The Official Reports
And Documents Connected With The Recent Engagements On The
Mississippi River, Which Resulted In The Capture Of Forts Jackson,
St. Philip, And The City Of New Orleans, The Destruction Of The
Rebel Flotilla, &c. June 6, 1862.—GPO. Washington, DC. 1862.
8vo. 2 col. liths., 3 fold. maps. Removed. Laid in a maroon cloth
folding boxcase. The two colored plates of the Confederate Rams
"Manassas" and "Louisiana" and the three folding maps are
particularly bright and clean. I.D.#03606.
Board of State Engineers.
Report Of The Board Of State Engineers For The Year 1876, To The
General Assembly. Office of the Democrat New Orleans. 1878.
8vo, 63 p. folding plan, section disbound. Scarce early ecology
effort to avoid annual floods that occured near Vicksburg
following a "cut-off" when the Mississippi River suddenly
obliterated a curve in its course creating an artificial lake and
numerous sand bars and bank erosions. Interesting technical
discussion of the action of great rivers. I.D.#02950.
Funds Siezed At New
Orleans During The Late Civil War GPO.
Washington, DC. 1886, March 2. 8vo, 30 p. tables. Disbound. (49th
Cong., 1st sess. House. Ex.Doc. No. 1010).
I.D.#07022. SOLD.
Railway Bridge,
Shreveport, La. Letter From The Secretary Of War.
GPO. Washington, DC. 1887, March 2. 8vo, 12 p. 3 fold. plans.
disbound. (49th Cong., 2d sess. House. Ex.Doc. No.198.) I.D.#07442.
"Meterie Cemetary"
Nashville, TN. c1895. Albumin photo print mounted on photo mat.
3.5" x 3.25." R.S. Patterson. KODAK Photo Finisher... View in the
notable old cemetery in a New Orleans suburb. I.D.#09423.
Robert Moses. Arterial plan
for New Orleans. Robert Moses, Director. Andrews & Clark,
consulting engineers. Printed by Steidinger Press, Inc. New York.
1946. Folio, 35 p. Col. plans, maps, architectural concepts. Gray
wrappers, printed in gold. Ex-library with perforated stamp on
title. Elegant engineering proposal much of which was adopted and
constructed. The basis for the postwar renewal of the city. I.D.#08020.
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