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Title: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: New York : W.H. Coleman
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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/ INTRODUCTION. fN the preparation of this volume we are indebted to many brilliant and interestingsketches, stories and descriptions, written at different times during the last thirtyyears for the press of New Orieans, by such eminent historians, litterateurs and journalists as the following : Hon. Charles Gayarre, Judge Alexander Walker, Charies E. Wliitney, Mrs. Field (Catherine Cole ), John and Charles Dimetry, Lafcadio Ilearn, Marion A. Baker, Norman Walker, and a number of others long since under the sod. We make this acknowledgment here, instead of accrediting the matter to them throughout the book, as each phrase or description is used or story is retold. Many persons who visit New Orleans find difficulty in knowing where to go and what to see, and after the places have been determined upon they lose considerable pleasure bynot knowing the traditions, legends and incidents surrounding such scenes. New Orleans-by its cosmopolitan character, and having been so far removed in its

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