{"product_id":"1867-bayou-lafourche-church-scene-bennett-jr-louisiana-creole-jan-19","title":"1867 Bayou LaFourche Church Scene, Bennett Jr., Louisiana Creole โ€” Jan 19","description":"๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ HARPER'S WEEKLY ยท January 19, 1867\nComplete Issue ยท New York\n\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n\nA varied and historically interesting early Reconstruction issue โ€” a full-page scene of Louisiana Creole and freedpeople church life on Bayou Lafourche, a portrait of the young James Gordon Bennett Jr. at the dawn of his colorful career, a railroad train buried in a snowdrift, the wreck of the steamer Commodore, and Grandpa's arrival. Strong content for collectors of Louisiana cultural history, Black Americana, and Victorian social life.\n\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\nโ›ช BAYOU LAFOURCHE โ€” COMING FROM CHURCH\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n\nโ›ช FULL PAGE โ€” \"COMING FROM CHURCH: SCENE ON THE BAYOU LAFOURCHE\"\nA full-page illustration of parishioners coming from church on Bayou Lafourche โ€” the long, slow-moving Louisiana bayou that stretches 106 miles from the Mississippi River south to the Gulf of Mexico, running through the heart of one of the most culturally distinctive regions in America. In January 1867 the Bayou Lafourche corridor was a mixed community of French Creoles, free people of color, and recently emancipated freedpeople who had worked the surrounding sugar plantations. The Catholic church was a central institution for all of these communities, and a Sunday scene of parishioners departing mass on the Bayou would have included Black and Creole families navigating the new social landscape of early Reconstruction Louisiana โ€” just months after the New Orleans Massacre of July 1866 and amid the burning debates over Black suffrage that were reshaping the South. A significant and vivid piece of Louisiana Creole history, Black Americana, and Reconstruction-era Southern life.\n\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n๐Ÿ“ฐ JAMES GORDON BENNETT JR.\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n\n๐Ÿ“ฐ HALF PAGE โ€” \"JAMES GORDON BENNETT, JR.\"\nA half-page portrait of James Gordon Bennett Jr. โ€” the flamboyant young heir to the New York Herald who would go on to become one of the most colorful and consequential figures in American journalism. In 1867 he was just beginning to assert himself at the Herald, which his father had founded in 1835 as one of the first modern mass-circulation newspapers. Within two years Bennett Jr. would send Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr. Livingstone in Africa, coining the phrase \"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?\" He would later found the International Herald Tribune. A significant piece of American newspaper and journalism history.\n\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ INSIDE THE ISSUE\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n\n๐Ÿš‚ HALF PAGE โ€” \"RAILROAD TRAIN IN A SNOW DRIFT\"\nA half-page illustration of a railroad train buried in a snowdrift โ€” a vivid piece of Victorian American winter and railroad history, capturing the brutal winter storms that regularly paralyzed the expanding American rail network.\n\n๐Ÿšข ONE-THIRD PAGE โ€” \"WRECK OF THE STEAMER COMMODORE\"\nA one-third page illustration of the wreck of the steamer Commodore โ€” a piece of Victorian maritime disaster history documenting a vessel lost in American waters in the winter of 1867.\n\n๐Ÿณ HALF PAGE โ€” \"SOCIAL SCIENCE: COOKING OUR OWN DINNER\"\nA half-page illustration accompanying an article on domestic science and self-sufficiency โ€” a vivid piece of Reconstruction-era American social thought and domestic culture.\n\n๐Ÿ‘ด FRONT PAGE โ€” \"GRANDPA IS COMING!\"\nA warm and affectionate front-page illustration of Grandpa's arrival โ€” a delightful piece of Victorian American domestic and family life.\n\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n๐Ÿ“‹ CONDITION\nโ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”โ”\n\nI photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. 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