Poultry Vendor, New Orleans, 1873-74

Description

Caption: The French Market-The Hen Trader; shows a woman vendor with basket, holding a chicken, a girl by her side, and boy who has apparently purchased two chickens. Also published in Edward King, The Great South (Hartford, Conn., 1875), p. 49 who describes this scene on his visit to the market in New Orleans.

Source

Scribner's Monthly (Nov.1873-Apr.1874), vol. VII, p. 147. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

NW0254

Spatial Coverage

North America--Louisiana--New Orleans

Item sets

Marketing & Urban Scenes

Citation

"Poultry Vendor, New Orleans, 1873-74", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 14, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/754
Caption: The French Market-The Hen Trader; shows a woman vendor with basket, holding a chicken, a girl by her side, and boy who has apparently purchased two chickens. Also published in Edward King, The Great South (Hartford, Conn., 1875), p. 49 who describes this scene on his visit to the market in New Orleans.
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