Steamboat Landing, New Orleans, LA, 1908

Subjects: Steamboats & Riverboats Waterfronts & Harbors Workers & Occupations
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1908 (Golden Age)

Back of Steamboat Landing, New Orleans, LA, 1908, c. 1908 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

An elevated view of the New Orleans levee, where rows of cotton bales cover the wharf and workers move among them carrying sacks. Steamboats and a railroad car line the water; smokestacks, warehouses, and a steamer trailing smoke fill the background. New Orleans was then a leading cotton port, and the riverfront depended on steamboats and rail connections to move the crop.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Did not get to Show Last night - going to See the Blue Mouse Today Heres a good

PostmarkedNew Orleans, LA, March 4, 1908, 12:00

Addressed to

Mr Walter Kile

Union Depot Rant Shreveport, LA

Postcard record

Postmarked	March 4, 1908, 12:00, New Orleans, LA
Publisher	A. Selige Pub. Co.
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Mr Walter Kile, Union Depot Rant, Shreveport, LA
Place depicted	New Orleans, LA
Publisher	A. Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis, MO
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1902, perforated vertical sides only
Notes	Colored lithograph with handwritten message in ink across the sky and over the cotton bales; wavy cancellation-like lines across the upper sky. No white border visible. Postmark: NEW ORLEANS, LA. MAR 4 12-M 1908. Divided back with 'For address only.' printed; publisher imprint: A. Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis, Mo. No. 4847. (Made in Germany.) Foxing/stains upper left and top edge; stamp torn at right edge.

Cite this card

Steamboat Landing, New Orleans, LA, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/steamboat-landing-new-orleans-la-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.