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
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