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Detail of 1851 Bachman Panorama
Panoramas of New Orleans from the Library of Congress
that can be viewed and saved in the MrSID format:
     1851, 1863, 1885
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1851
Birds' eye view of New Orleans drawn from nature on stone by J. Bachman
     New York: Published by the agents A. Guerber & Co., c1851 (Printed by J. Bachman)
     http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4014n.pm002401
A 12,896k MrSID version can be directly downloaded here:
     http://memory.loc.gov/gmd/gmd401/g4014/g4014n/pm002401.sid

1863
New Orleans, La. and its vicinity.
     J. Wells, del. W. Ridgway, sc. Virtue & Co., 1863
     http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4014n.pm002410
A 738k MrSID version can be directly downloaded here:
     http://memory.loc.gov/gmd/gmd401/g4014/g4014n/pm002410.sid

1885
The city of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain in distance.
     New York: Published by Currier & Ives, c1885
     http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4014n.pm002411
A 9,557k MrSID version can be directly downloaded here:
     http://memory.loc.gov/gmd/gmd401/g4014/g4014n/pm002411.sid

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