The city of New Orleans in the United States. An elderly African American woman poses for the camera. Slate indicates that she remembers the slave market of Lincoln's time. Two teenage boys wrestle and a group of young men watches.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. The house United States of America Union Army General Benjamin Franklin Butler. The house has iron balconies. Traffic at Lee Circle and a statue of U.S. Army General Robert Edward Lee.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. View of levees and homes. Rowboats in the New Basin Canal (the first canal in the city, running between Lake Pontchartrain and uptown New Orleans). Construction workers seen building the Industrial Canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. A crane picks up beams, scaffolding and shoring on the side of an excavation. Boats at a dock. A sign reads 'Bienville Street landing'.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. A ship tied up at a dock. Boat 'Nola' with a tarpaulin over the deck. A barge in a river. Workers put a cotton bale into a machine. Bales moved on dollies. A bale comes out of a compressor. The cotton bale is hoisted aboard a freighter by a crane.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. Workers in a sugarcane field cut sugarcane by hand. Exterior of a refining plant. Smoke comes out of smoke stacks.
U.S. battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) being test bombed in the Atlantic Ocean as part of General Billy Mitchell's efforts to demonstrate the effect of air power in warfare. A close up of the USS New Jersey (BB-16). The ship begins to sink after aerial bombing. One mast falls and the U.S. battleship tilts on one side. The ship gradually submerges into water off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.