In The Flow of Time – July 10, 2024
Today’s find…. the New Orleans riverside, drawn in 1828 by Captain B Hall, from the flatboat landing, looking downriver to the ocean-going tall ships. He drew this using a camera lucida. In effect, this is a tracing of what was really there. In another source, I find that, on May 20 1828, 68 ocean-going ships, 50 brigs, 10 schooners and 6 sloops lined the old city wharf, a forest of at least 300 masts. That’s what Cap’n Hall saw.
Abraham Lincoln arrived at the flatboat landing in May of 1828. This is what the country boy saw. We aren’t in Indiana any more.
